Great to spot Energiesprong Nottingham in Urban Design Journal Spring issue this week

This issue’s Climate Change Global Digest highlights Energiesprong Nottingham as one of two exemplar retrofit projects, one residential one commercial.

Energiesprong Nottingham is an example of the kind of thinking required at a large scale to address the existing residential stock whilst minimising disruption to residents. In fact, residents do not need to move out of their homes. The pilot scheme for Nottingham City Homes which Studio Partington developed with Melius Homes is the first Energiesprong project in the UK. As well as delivering a step-change in energy efficiency, the design is also able to address some of the wider urban design weaknesses of the housing, such as undercroft garages converted into living spaces and brought into the airtight insulated envelope, thereby reducing heat loss and increasing passive surveillance. Each further phase has learned from the last, confirming the replicability of the approach elsewhere.

Photograph by Tim Crocker