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  1. THE BEDZED STORY The UK's first large-scale, mixed-use eco-village

    Using three European case studies - BedZed, Vauban and Hammarby - it investigates the processes of broadening and scaling-up within cities, nations and across cities globally; and finds that transition experiments do influence the development regime in which they are embedded.

  2. PDF BedZED Beddington Zero Energy Development

    Case Study 21stCenturyDevelopment.org Page 1 BedZED Beddington Zero Energy Development Hackbridge, Sutton, U.K. BedZED is a brownfield development that contains a mixed-use sustainable community with residential, office, and community spaces. It is a zero-carbon development that encourages a lifestyle

  3. BedZED

    BedZED was initiated by Bioregional and developed by Peabody Trust in partnership with Bioregional and ZEDfactory architects. Completed in 2002, the UK's first large-scale, mixed-use sustainable community comprises 100 homes, office space, a college and community facilities. It is also where our main office was located from 2002-2022.

  4. Towards sustainable residential communities; the Beddington Zero Energy

    BedZED is located to address these larger-scale sustainable lifestyle issues. KEYWORDS climate change / construction / ecological footprint / sustainable communities / sustainable lifestyles / zero carbon homes I. INTRODUCTION The Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is the UK's largest mixed-use sustainable community.

  5. PDF A sustainable neighbourhood: BedZED (Beddington Zero Energy Development)

    BedZED, in Beddington, south-west London, was built on a brownfield site1 on previously industrial land. Fifty per cent of houses are for private sale or rent, 25% for shared ownership and 25% social housing for. rent2. In a BedZED home energy use for heating and hot water is reduced 81%3 by. simple things like south-facing windows ...

  6. PDF BedZED seven years on

    on-going conversation about BedZED and underlines its wider significance. As we work to meet statutory targets and cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2025, we can and must apply lessons learned at BedZED across the entire social housing sector. BedZED was an innovative project realised by a committed team with a strong vision. The

  7. PDF BedZed Case Study

    BedZed Case Study - University of Idaho

  8. PDF Sustainable living and green community

    The BedZED (Beddington Zero Energy Development) is the UK's first and largest carbon-neutral eco-community and is located in Sutton, a residential town 40 minutes southwest of London. It is the UK's first large-scale, mixed use sustainable community with homes, office space, a college and community facilities.

  9. PDF BedZed Case Study

    BedZed Case Study Aside from car use and buying exotic foods, the single following energy saving strategies have been implemented biggest impact each of us has on our environment has in BedZed to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions: to do with the way we use and run our buildings. Most buildings (in general) behave like gas guzzling cars and 1.

  10. Towards sustainable residential communities; the Beddington Zero Energy

    The lessons from BedZED, written about extensively (Chance, 2009; Desai, 2009;Hodge and Haltrecht, 2009), have since been applied to the other programmes and case studies examined here, both ...

  11. Case Study: Bedzed

    Case Study: Bedzed [PDF] Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) Bill Dunster, ZED Factory, Architect. BedZED. BedZED is a mixed development urban village for The Peabody Trust. On a brownfield wasteland site in the London Borough of Sutton, the development provides 82 dwellings in a mixture of flats, maisonettes, and town houses, plus ...

  12. PDF BedZED: Toolkit Part I

    3 Contents BedZED Materials Report CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction 3 2 Summary 4 3 Materials In Construction 5 4 Measuring Environmental 8 Impacts of Materials 5 Overview of BedZED 10 construction Materials 6 Material Case Studies 15 7 Case Studies Summary 36 8 Local Sourcing Analysis 37 9 Total Embodied Impact Analysis 38 10 Reclaimed Materials Summary 39 11 What you can do 37

  13. PDF BedZed Case Study Report

    The village square at BedZED. A place for chance meetings and social interaction on the mixed-use, mixed-tenure development BedZED comprises 82 homes, office space and live-work units. It is the UK's largest eco-village. BedZED targets Environmental: low energy and renewable fuel, including biomass combined heat and power

  14. the zero-energy ecovillage in bedzed, uk

    BedZED, or Beddington Zero (fossil) Energy Development, is the UK's largest eco-village. The development was designed by architect Bill Dunster. BedZED integrates systems and creates a green and circular neighbourhood. ... The case study, then, exemplifies many of the approaches proposed by our shared vision on Green and Thriving ...

  15. PDF Towards Zero Energy Buildings: Lessons Learned From the Bedzed Development

    Table 6.3: BedZED case study sample - number of occupants in the dwelling..... 131 Table 6.4: BedZED case study sample - tenure type..... 131 Table 6.5: Phase 1 Occupant Survey ..... 134 Table 6.6: Record of Logger Data Collection for Phase 1 and Phase 2.. 137 ...

  16. BedZED Beddington Zero Energy Development

    BedZED Beddington Zero Energy Development is a brownfield development that contains a mixed use sustainable community with residences, office space, community space. ... Download Case Study (PDF) Sources: energy-cities.eu/ *Note: This case study was developed using found information. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, contuer adipiscing elit, sed diam ...

  17. PDF BedZED: Toolkit Part II

    BedZED BedZED is a mixed-use scheme in South London initiated by BioRegional Development Group and Bill Dunster Architects. BedZED has been developed by London's largest housing association, the Peabody Trust. The scheme comprises 82 homes and 2,500m2 of commercial or live/work space. The scheme was completed and occupied in 2002.

  18. Towards zero energy buildings: lessons learned from the BedZED development

    This study compares the performance in use of 24 dwellings at the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) designed as a zero energy development. A unique feature is that, for the first time in ...

  19. BedZED

    Both the BedZED development and Oberlin's Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies (AJLC) are iconic, "early adopter" projects in zero carbon emissions that appear in many textbooks and case studies on green architecture. However, whereas the AJLC was designed to showcase ecological design and a zero carbon emissions approach ...

  20. Case Study

    BedZED - the UK's first eco-community - was completed in 2002. BedZED was designed to be free of fossil-fuel consumption once it was built, radically reducing its residents' emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide gas and giving them energy security. BedZED is made up of mixed-size and mixed-tenure properties, from studio flats to ...

  21. BedZED case study report

    A BedZED case study written for the Housing Corporation by Bioregional soon after it was completed. 247.5 Kb | 2 December 2002. Download PDF.

  22. PDF BedZED

    Triple-glazed, argon-filled windows with low-emissivity glass, large panes and timber frames further reduce heat loss. Well-sealed windows and. doors, together with the concrete construction, give a good level of airtightness. Heat exchangers in the passive, wind-driven ventilation system recover up to 70% of the heat from outgoing stale air.

  23. PDF Sustainability of Future Cities

    BedZed did have a few problems though. The homes and whole development cost a lot of money. The green filter system using reeds failed and therefore was out of action of seven months. Finally being carbon neutral is very difficult because despite the fact that there are car sharing schemes, many people still drive their own cars. 2. Dongtan, China:

  24. Government innovation

    Governments today must be able to adapt to changing environments, work in different ways, and find solutions to complex challenges. OECD work on public sector innovation looks at how governments can use novel tools and approaches to improve practices, achieve efficiencies and produce better policy results.