For the last 3 years I have been working on a house called the Moonstone Project - I have designed and installed the complete electrical, av and automation systems in the house with an ECO perspective. It has now been shortlisted for the Homebuilding and Renovation 2010 House of the Year (eco bias)

So, if you like it, please vote for it

http://www.homebuild...wards/moonstone

Click Vote Now and then select Moonstone

Cheers

Kaine

Tried the link but did not work.

Try this instead...

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/awards/moonstone

I applaud the concept but not the prettiest house to look at


My brother has converted an old mill with no utilities available so went eco but the ground source heat pump has been disappointing

Wind turbine, solar panels and pv panels working well though

He was so impressed with some of the technology he started his own company as a sideline to his building company

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Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Kaine wrote:

For the last 3 years I have been working on a house called the Moonstone Project - I have designed and installed the complete electrical, av and automation systems in the house with an ECO perspective. It has now been shortlisted for the Homebuilding and Renovation 2010 House of the Year (eco bias)

So, if you like it, please vote for it

http://www.homebuild...wards/moonstone

Click Vote Now and then select Moonstone

Cheers

Kaine

Front on it looks horrendous, looks like a beach hut or some sort of 50's pre fab architecture, utterly horrible.

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Great to see finished pictures of this Kaine, I remember you posting early pictures. Is the house scalable down to normal sizes to still be energy positive? I presume water is from a well if there is no mains supply.

As far as windturbines are concerned, in my experience they are a waste of time. At my kid's school we've had a 9m and then 15m turbine for 6 years, on a site that is the windiest school in the county with just open farm land to the sea. Luckily we haven't had to buy it otherwise it would have been a monumental loss. I noticed on Grand Designs a house had a similar experience with a 13m one. Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

looks good, I quite like the outside, little bit different etc

My dads just had 20 or so Solar pannels placed on his house roof, by a company FOC

He gets reduced electric through the day and they get any unused energy generated back which IIRC they sell to the national grid and i think they got a grant of some sorts for putting them up

Company was called "a shade greener" if anybody is interested

Just voted Moonstone!
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Just been think about this thread

With things like this they often search for links to voting pages, as they sometimes see it as false voting, getting people to vote just because they know you one way of another

Might be wise to change the thread links to be a more indirect link somehow

you won't want all your hard work to be struck off due to vote cheating etc

Ugly house but great concept

photo's on the H&R site are actually the clients pics - not professional. Close up the finish is fantastic

you can see some better pics here

http://www.themoonstoneproject.co.uk/

Unfortunately I have been requested to do a blog about the technology which will be added to this site

It is a great concept but I don't know if anybody else feels this but I find most of these eco/passive/low carbon houses to be totally soul-less and cold. I had to laugh at the one on Grand Designs last night with all the fancy penny pinching energy saver, low carbon etc,etc ideas and then they go and build a whacking great double garage for two large Hondas on the side and neither of them a hybrid.................. he must have been gutted not to have got anything back from his wind turbine too, nice garden ornament though, I'm sure the local wood pigeons love it as a roost 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tim

You're spot on - John has always said Positive Energy rather than ECO

Kaine