Designed with environmental sustainability in mind, Haus@Serangon Garden features the following green features for an estimated savings of roughly 40% on your utilities bill, as reported by your individual lifestyle and utility usage pattern:
Comprehensive passive design to minimise attachment to air-conditioning and electrical lighting
The layout and orientation of all 97 houses will minimise heat gain and maximise natural ventilation from the sun-path and wind directions. Each house also comes with ample windows, a roof sky-light and open riser staircase to bring in natural light.
Heat recovery system from air-conditioning units
Another first for a landed housing estate. Heat generated about the air-conditioners get used to provide you with hot water in a bath room. This is an unique add-on innovation to your air-conditioning system which contains the highest energy efficiency '4-ticks' rating.
Haus and serangoon garden is by using environmental sustainability in travel. The development embraces an extensive use of both passive and active green building approaches to ensure a comprehensive sustainable design is incorporated from wholesome. These include:
1 Comprehensive passive design for superior development and individual packages. The layout and orientation of your 96 units were made to minimise heat gain and maximise natural ventilation from the sun-path and wind instructions. For individual units, passive designs were incorporated to facilitate good snap and circulation including an uniquely designed car porch and ample window openings to enhance natural day-lighting. Each house also features a roof sky-light and open riser staircase that earns more natural light into the centre on the town.
2 Photovoltaic (PV) system using individual panels to convert sunlight into electricity. Every house is made with a 1 kilowatt-peak PV system installed on its roof to generate solar electrical energy. Known to be one in the cleanest and greenest renewable power sources, the solar power generated from the PV system will off-set the grid electricity consumed by fridge provided every single house and house owners will make full use of direct price savings on their electricity dues.
3 Air-conditioner heat recovery systems. Another first-of-its-kind innovation for a landed housing estate it's the implementation a good air-conditioner heat recovery system where the waste heat generated from the operation of the air-conditioners will be used to supply homeowners with hot water in their bathrooms.
This is often an unique add-on innovation towards the air-conditioning system which is of a superior high energy efficiency '4-ticks' rating provided each and every house.
4 Rainwater harvesting system
Every house will possess a rainwater harvesting system to match the collecting rainwater for gardening use, hence lowering the use of potable water and will be the restricted water electric bills.
Homeowners of Haus and serangoon garden can benefit up to 40% utility savings per typical terrace house, determined by their individual lifestyle and utility usage pattern. According to CDL's ethos of conserving as it constructs, beyond the green features, this sterling green residential enclave may built with sustainable construction methodology. Off the outset, a carbon footprint study will be conducted to name ways to mitigate the environmental footprint with the development the particular construction cycle.
Haus and serangoon garden will feature an extensive use of sustainable quality materials, including green concrete and recycled raw materials, in developing structure and road novels. To improve build ability, resource efficiency and productivity, pre-cast and pre-fabricated components is used widely during putting together. All in, the developers invested approximately 4% of essential construction price the rise in green infrastructure.
Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Managing Director of CDL said: 'Haus and serangoon garden can be a landmark residential development the as we can easily deliver significant measurable and direct cost benefits to individual homebuyers over a long-term period. Beyond being mindful of reducing the environmental impact during advancement phase, this eco landed housing estate will also have a lower carbon footprint throughout its entire life-cycle. With extensive 'greening' of each and every house within HAUS@SERANGOON GARDEN, we look to create a built-in community of green homes that inspires greater eco-consciousness across quite big Serangoon Garden residential enclave.'