Built in 2002, BedZED features 82 affordable housing units ... The buildings are heavily insulated and feature large, south-facing windows to take advantage of natural heating and light.

BedZED, designed by the architect Bill Dunster ... Walls are thick with insulation, three-story banks of south-facing windows trap the sun’s warmth and heavy floors and ceilings keep ...

Windows are triple-glazed ... But it's actually an 84-home development, called BedZED, on the site of a disused sewage-treatment plant in an unfashionable patch of South London.

Built to last 120 years and totally sustainable, the company behind the BedZed development hopes it will be a model for future house building. The first residents moved into the Beddington Zero ...

BedZED in Hackbridge ... "People in 'normal' flats could live a similar lifestyle by thinking about their windows, growing food, switching to a green electricity tariff, thinking about their ...

One of, if not the key sustainable housing projects of the early 2000’s in Britain was BedZED, the South London eco-district. The result of five years work, BedZED (short for Beddington Zero Energy ...

The Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) may not be new news, but is a fabulous example of innovative, zero-energy, sustainable housing on a multi-unit scale. The residential and workspace ...

As if to prove this, its completion coincides with criticism of its predecessor, BedZED, centring on the fact that its wood chip-powered plant has broken down. Yet the problem underlines the extent to ...

Four years ago, a housing complex called BedZed opened in south London with the ambitious goal of running entirely on renewable energy. Well, things haven’t gone quite as planned. BedZed’s ...

£1.5m Presentation scheme aims to be green without putting the client in the red A London housing association has been given the go-ahead to build a £1.5m environment-friendly scheme based on designs ...

Bennie added that 'we're not getting much electricity to be honest'. However, Dunster denies many of those living in BedZed are disgruntled and believes any problems can be overcome. He also stated ...