Facilitators/Presenters/Guides
(Practicalities of achieving zero carbon development)
General
- HHP is currently involved with facilitating workshops for Design 4 Life programme (East Midlands Development Agency funded project to encourage low carbon development)
- HHP have run over 20 workshops in last 2 years aimed at designers, developers and decision makers considering low carbon building (HHP Master Classes)
- Frequently provide presentations to conferences/seminars - Recent examples:
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Regeneration East Midlands
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Ecobuild (Small Scale Wind & PV ¡V the realities at Hockerton)
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MSc course at Nottingham Trent Uni (sustainable water use)
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Renewable Energy conference (Earls Court) (Insights on a zero energy residential development)
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BRE seminar (Small scale wind)
- Lived, breathed, demonstrated zero carbon living at Hockerton Housing Project + guided nearly 20,000 visitors over last 10 years
Nick Martin
Nick Martin (BEd), a founding Project member, has a unique experience and knowledge of energy efficient housing. He first became interested in the early 1990¡¦s after acquiring a 25-acre site just outside the village envelope of Hockerton, in rural Nottinghamshire. Combining his interests in renewable energy and low impact developments he set to work on various concepts leading him to the earth-sheltered option. In the meantime he won the tender in 1993 to build the home of Prof. Brenda and Dr. Robert Vale, the UK¡¦s first sustainable town house - an autonomous house with ¡¥net zero CO2¡¦ emissions, of low embodied energy, deriving power from photovoltaic arrays and passive solar heating. Nick Martin was so convinced by many of the construction principles that he commissioned Dr. Robert Vale to design a rural hamlet of 5 earth sheltered sustainable dwellings, Hockerton Housing Project, to similar energy and environmental performance standards - autonomous and with 'net zero CO2' emissions. Nick supervised this self-build project from August 1996 to Sept 1998.
Nick Martin is now one of the most experienced eco-builders in the UK. He leads the project consultancy work, including new designs for ultra low energy housing, as well as being directly involved in new eco-building projects. More recently he has been involved with the design and build of HHP¡¦s new eco-community building (the Sustainable Resource Centre) a pair of earth-sheltered homes in Hockerton, a single eco-home, an eco-barn conversion and many eco-retrofits (including involvement in the Nottingham Eco-House). He is currently developing a proposal for a 11 home ultra low energy scheme in Hockerton.
Simon Tilley
Simon Tilley (M Eng, C Eng, M I Mech E) Simon joined the project in 1995, after a background in Mechanical Engineering. This included spending two years in working for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Namibia.
He manages the HHP water & energy systems and a number of key HHP projects, including a DTI Domestic PV field trial. He also leads and facilitates HHP's developments with educational work including running workshops tours and training events. He contributed towards Nottinghamshire Agenda 21's review of energy & construction. Simon was also an Open University Associate Lecturer for the 'Energy for a Sustainable Future' course for two years and now mentors his replacement.
More recently Simon has been very involved with the design and build of HHP's new eco-community building (the Sustainable Resource Centre), provided input into a number of reed bed designs, and acts as one of HHP's most experienced technical members for consultancy, tours and workshops.
Nick White
Nick White (BSc) Nick has been a member of HHP since the start of the construction of the homes in 1996, and contributed to the self-build. Since 1998, Nick has led the development and marketing of the Project's on site eco-business, including guided tours, consultancy and workshops. He coordinates the Media coverage of HHP. In the last few years he has also managed grant funded projects including, 'The Zero Emission Network' (BIFFAward), written two guides on sustainable living and written a draft 'Sustainable Developer Guide' for Nottinghamshire County Council.
He is currently writing a book on 'Energy saving in the Home' as part of 'Teach Yourself' series of publications with Hodder Press.