Case studY Formerly Richmond Flats, Harold Wilson Court on Leeds Road in Huddersfield is an 11 storey building comprising 43 one-bedroom flats. When the tower block was originally ear-marked for refurbishment the target was for affordable warmth and cheaper energy costs for its residents. Yet on receipt of funding from the Yorkshire & Humber european Regional development Fund Programme 2007-2013 as part of the BIG energy upgrade programme, KNH was able to complete elements of the refurbishment in line with the principles of the Passivhaus standard. as part of the original brief the windows needed to achieve a u-value of 1.4 W/m 2 k but under the guidelines of Passivhaus the windows had to get down to a reading of 0.8 W/m 2 k. Main contractor Clugston Construction Ltd wa

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