Sustainable Design

ASAP Architects reinforce their expertise in the creative reuse and alteration of existing buildings with the use of low energy and energy producing building technologies and the specification of sustainable construction materials.Recently completed projects in Nottingham and Derby use a unique combination of these technologies and construction materials which include:

Passive solar hot water cylinder cold water feed warm up tanks
Concrete wall and floor blocks containing recycled aggregate
Keston super low energy/low emission central heating boiler
Permacrib timber retaining wall construction
Externally applied insulation allowing mass of internal concrete masonry to act as heat and cool store
Mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system
Sheep wool insulation quilt
Under floor heating
Solar panels fed to twin coil highly insulated hot water cylinder

We have also installed a sun tube to provide daylight to an internal first floor kitchenette in a Roman Catholic Presbytery and provided off main, composting toilets to 2 churches that were isolated from the main drainage system due to distance, low level, archeologically sensitive sites and burial grounds.

Two projects that have reached feasibility and tender stage, Littlewood Farm Retreat Centre and Renishaw Mill office conversion also feature a turf roof construction over a new lower ground floor extension, rainwater recycling and south facing sun rooms to achieve passive solar heat gain.