Gardens · London
INTEGER Millennium House
In or near Bricket Wood.
INTEGER Millennium House — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
John Webb — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Nearest railway station
- Bricket Wood · 1.4 km
- Dog-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit INTEGER Millennium House, the nearest railway station is Bricket Wood, located 1.4 km away. The postcode for sat-nav is WD25 9NH. Please note that wheelchair accessibility is limited.
About
INTEGER Millennium House is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
Photo gallery
Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Chilterns
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The INTEGER Millennium House is a demonstration house in Watford, England that opened to the public in 1998. It was renamed The Smart Home after being refurbished in 2013. The house was originally intended to showcase innovations in design and construction, building intelligence, and environmental performance. The INTEGER design included many innovative features, including environmental technology such as a green roof and a grey water recycling system, home automation that included a building management system and an intelligent security system, and innovative technical systems such as under-floor trench heating. In 2013, the house was refurbished and retrofitted with a variety of new and upgraded features, including a building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) array, which altogether halved its carbon emissions and increased its energy efficiency by 50%. Since its creation, the house has garnered numerous awards, appeared on Tomorrow's World on BBC Television, hosted thousands of visitors, and influenced mainstream construction.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
The origins of the INTEGER Millennium House date to a May 1996 seminar about green building, which catalysed the formation of the INTEGER building design and consultancy team to "evaluate available design and technical solutions to improve housing performance". The efforts of this design team resulted in the creation of a scale model of a house, which has subsequently been widely exhibited at institutions such as the Science Museum, London as well as profiled in the DK Eyewitness Book Future. Damian Bree, Tim Day, Paul Hodgkins, and Nicholas Thompson began designing the INTEGER Millennium House itself in October 1997, a process that proceeded for 10 weeks. Built on the Building Research…
Description
As originally built, the INTEGER Millennium House included numerous examples of environmental technology, including a green roof, wind turbine, solar photovoltaic panels, and solar water heaters capable of heating water up to 95 C. The house also featured a geothermal heat pump, rainwater collection and retention for both washing cars and watering gardens, and a grey water recycling system that reuses waste water from bathing and washing for toilet flushing, reducing water usage by roughly 30%. Altogether, the house achieved "Level 4 +" environmental performance according to the Code for Sustainable Homes. The INTEGER Millennium House was also built with a variety of intelligent home…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.6989, -0.3756
- County
- Hertfordshire
- District
- St Albans
- Parish
- St Stephen
- Postcode
- WD25 9NH
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Albans
- Established
- 1998
- Nearest railway station
- Bricket Wood — 1.4 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q19874557 (CC0)
- wikipedia: INTEGER Millennium House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is INTEGER Millennium House?
- INTEGER Millennium House is in Hertfordshire, London, United Kingdom (postcode WD25 9NH), in the parish of St Stephen.
- What is INTEGER Millennium House?
- INTEGER Millennium House — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to INTEGER Millennium House?
- The nearest railway station is Bricket Wood, about 1.4 km away. Drivers can use postcode WD25 9NH.
- When was INTEGER Millennium House built?
- Built or established in 1998.
- Who owns INTEGER Millennium House?
- INTEGER Millennium House is owned by | cost =.
- Is INTEGER Millennium House a protected site?
- Yes — INTEGER Millennium House is part of the Chilterns National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to INTEGER Millennium House?
- The nearest railway station is Bricket Wood, about 1.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode WD25 9NH.