Eco-Pod Home
Energy efficient Eco-pod Home
Rene just sent this to me and I really think it is cool, what do you think?
An ‘eco-pod’ home, which promises to be more energy efficient than standard houses, has been shown at this year’s Grand Designs show at London’s ExCel Centre.
Eco Hab is committed to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint, by building a range of the highest performing energy efficient Eco friendly Homes.
Every step has been taken during the design and construction of our Eco Pods, to minimise the Homes demand and dependency of fossil fuels.
This has been achieved by incorporating the following features into the Eco Pod:
• High level of thermal insulation giving an overall U value
of up to .18 for the 4m pod and .16 for the 6m pod
• Sealed Envelope (no air leakage)
• Hot air recovery ventilation
• Wood/ solid fuel burning stove
• Under floor heating
• Full recycling facility (5 separate waste shoots)
• Factory built (controlled work environment)
Optional extras:
• Solar Panels – PV Panels /Wind Turbine /Thermal storage tank
• Backup Generator – dry toilet – rain water harvesting
To learn more visit the Eco Hab website.
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Certianly interesting. I’ve always had a grandious vision for these “modular” style homes where individuals have their own bedroom pods that feed into family’s living pods, which in turn are interconnected or suround “comunity” pods. Very neo-modern.
They certianly seem very spacious.
I had the chance to look round one of these at the Glastonbury Festival last year.
I liked the look of them, but I wasn’t convinced that the round shape was best for such a small size. All your furniture needs to be custom as do your windows etc, so if anything breaks it’s going to be costly to fix.
They’re also very expensive, at least to my sort of budget anyway. I didn’t think they felt as large as a similarly sized regular house would. I think they’re a great idea, but for the size they cost much more than a regular type of construction would.
Still, it’s good to see companies starting to take this market seriously.
J.
That is really cool. Love the round windows that pivot out. They seem to offer about all the options you would want. Just drive up and plop it down.
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I agree – all the custom work & items drive up the cost. Why not go with tried and true 90 angles?
Of course if this is your only home you could spend a lot of money on a small space and still come out way ahead…
Hi, i love all this small homes, also the eco friendly sounds great, but how i don’t hear that much about it here in USA , a lot of people need this kind of homes Now and in affordable prices!
I don’t see any sort of efficiency with these. The circular shape gives you much less space than a rectangular shape, especially with a corridor going to other pod. And insulation-wise, you have to insulate all those walls in the pods and corridor when a rectangular structure with adjacent rooms eliminates the insulation on the shared wall. Cute, but wasteful.
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Interesting. Not efficient in space use, but probably VERY efficient with all thermal concerns. As far as cost goes, i’m sure being built as is, makes these guys VERY fast to put up. Especially when you have cranky neighbors. Within a few hours this thing could be done and out of everybody’s hair. Almost like a container house, but not quite as … utilitarian.