Taylor House and Peebles House is Westminster City Council’s flagship affordable housing and extra care scheme. It provides 65 one-bedroom extra care homes alongside 23 family-sized apartments for affordable rent.
As Passivhaus/AECB Consultant, XCO2 played a key role in optimising energy efficiency through advanced PHPP energy modelling. The general needs building follows efficient design principles: a simple form, a high-performance fabric and carefully positioned high-performance windows, all of which reduce operational energy demand.
Rigorous modelling kept thermal bridging to a minimum, and a heat pump ambient loop further improved energy performance, so the general needs block achieves the AECB ‘CarbonLite New Build’ Standard. The extra care block is designed to meet the more demanding PHI ‘Low Energy Building’ standard. Both buildings have dual-aspect layouts, heat recovery ventilation and solar shading to improve comfort and limit overheating.
The development achieves an 80% improvement over Part L (using SAP10 carbon emission factors), far exceeding the minimum on-site requirement of 35%. PV systems generate over 20% of total residential energy use.
