Future Living Right Now
With the market share for timber frame standing at 28%, and further 5%
growth expected between now and 2020, timber is fast becoming the
construction material of choice in the UK. A key new entrant to the
housing market is Trivselhus, the Swedish housebuilding subsidiary of
Södra – the largest forestry co-operative in Sweden. Trivselhus, What
House? Sustainable Developer of the Year 2016, is working with Places
for People, 2016 Building Awards Housebuilder of the Year, and one of
the largest property and leisure management, development and
regeneration companies in the UK, to develop Sommar Place, a £18 million
development of low-energy smart homes comprising 39 highly
energyefficient, eco-friendly homes on the edge of its award-winning
Brooklands development in Milton Keynes.
This will be the first full timber frame development in the UK
featuring integrated, cutting-edge smart home technology from Apple
fitted as standard, with further development opportunities being sought
between Places for People and Trivselhus. As well as cutting edge
technology, timber’s inherently energy-efficient qualities will allow
Trivselhus the luxury of an additional design feature on what is sure to
become a prestigious development. Sommar Place is a truly
forward-thinking project, delivering the very best in Swedish
energy-efficient design, combined with the latest in smart home
technology – effectively future-proofing these homes for decades to
come.
Jeremy English, Sales Director at Södra, says: “We’re proud
that timber is playing such a fundamental role in bringing housing into
the future. We believe the timber frame just adds more benefits, from
providing a truly sustainable construction material, to giving a much
faster, flexible build, andelegant end-product.”
No house
can be called a home of the future without futureproof ecocredentials.
Trivselhus houses are built to sustain even the harshest Swedish
climate. Its secret is Climate Shield®: a superior level of mineral wool
insulation and airtightness built into the closed panel timber frame
walls during construction in Sweden. This ‘fabric first’ manufacturing
gives Sommar Place’s houses exceptional thermal performance, keeping its
occupants warm in the winter and cool in the summer. These qualities
mean space heating demand can be reduced by up to 40% over more
traditionally built properties, while lasting for the lifetime of the
building – eliminating the need to add bolt-on technologies in the
future.
Sommar Place replicates Swedish lifestyle inside and out.
The timber design maximises the available space, with each house
designed as an elegant, contemporary, welcoming home, combining high
ceilings and large windows, utilising the aesthetics that really bring
timber into its own. Elegant Scandinavian design, combined with the
natural beauty of quality timber, precision technology and seamless
technology makes these houses comfortable, stylish and environmentally
responsible.
Apple HomeKit accessories have been fitted as
standard so that new residents of Sommar Place can move in and make
themselves at home from day one. Fully interconnected throughout each
home, the technology is completely customisable and can be tailored to a
family’s individual preferences to complement and enhance day-to-day
living while ensuring all-important privacy and security. By using the
Apple Home app on their iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, interacting with
Siri on these devices plus HomePod, and Apple TV, residents can make
their home best work for them with the ease of use, seamless
interoperability and superior level of end-to-end encrypted security
that Apple is renowned for.
“To date, this level of connected
technology integrated into the build of a new property has only been
available in multi-million-pound, bespoke smart homes,” says Ken
Forster, Managing Director of Trivselhus. “It’s our mission at
Trivselhus to develop family homes that have a positive impact on how
people live. Technology is essential in easing people’s lives, so it is
important that moving forward family homes are designed with smart home
technology at their fore.”
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