Eco Friendly Features
The following are some of the "eco friendly features" designed into the Cafe Azure development
- The main timber construction is from sustainable Finnish sources
- The use of environmentally friendly timber finishing - vegetable based
- Ground source heat pump - heating/cooling water for building temperature control
- Very high levels of insulation throughout
- Rainwater goods - guttering and downcomers are galvanised steel (not pvc)
- Solar Panels - for heating water
- Rainwater harvesting - rainwater is gathered stored and used for toilet flushing and irrigation
- Main floor covering is natural linoleum type materials (avoiding the use of pvc)