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Integer Millennium House - BBC Dream House
Glazed South facing Solar SpaceBBC Dream House co designed by Bree Day Partnership & Cole Thompson Associates

Client:
Integer Intelligent & Green Ltd

Summary of Project:
 The house was constructed on a site donated by the Building Research Establishment BRE at their main entrance, Garston, north of London.

Hillary Armstrong MP, cutting the tape at the official openingPictured along with Hillary Armstrong MP, the then Minister for Local Government & Housing, at the official opening in December 1998 is Nicholas Thompson, Director of Integer.

The house was built to demonstrate how constructional, environmental, sustainable and technological applications available today can be used to provide a better home and lifestlye using available technology.

There were no prototypes or experimental components used in the construction of the house.

Since the completion of the Millennium House several Integer developments have been completed in the UK.

Awards:
The house has been recognised as leading the movement to change the face of construction in the UK, and subsequently has won several awards, including:

2001: Design Museum

1999: The Civic Trust Awards

1999: National HomeBuilder Design Awards

1998: European Intelligent Building Group

1998: 2000Homes

Location:
BRE Building Research Establishment, Garston.

Integer Millennium House side view
Development Team:

Integer Architects

Bree Day Partnership

Cole Thompson Associates

Paul Hodgkins Associates

 

Client

Contractor

St. Engineer

Quantity Surveyor

IT Consultant

M&E Consultants

Integer Intelligent & Green Ltd

Wilcon Homes

Anthony Ward Partnership

The Andrews Partnership

i&i Ltd

Faber Maunsell (Oscar Faber)

 

**** References to further information on this project ****

 

Summary of Sustainable, Intelligent and Construction Features

 

Project History and Building Description

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have produced an on-line Housing Innovation Site, providing "a resource for all those interested in innovation in housing". Thier report on this demonstration house can be obtained here.

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This is the BBC Dream House, also known as the Integer Millennium House, built at the BRE, Garston. It was co-designed with Integer colleagues Cole Thompson Associates in 1998, and was built later that summer. House

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