Shoreline combines modern living with great design and practical features to save energy and money, such as solar panels and air transfer systems, a bio fuel stove, and regulation surpassing insulation.

Altherma Energy Air source heat pump

Altherma by Daikin is a highly flexible, energy efficient home heating system that extracts the heat from the outside air, raises this heat to a higher temperature and then distributes warmth around the home through high quality heating units. At the heart of the system lies an air to water heat pump.

Altherma heats up to 5 times more efficiently than a traditional heating system based on fossil fuels or electricity. By making use of the heat in the outside air, one uses much less energy. Thanks to the inverter technology, heat pump systems are 3 to 5 times more efficient than fossil fuel boilers and are capable of warming a house completely, even during the lowest winter temperatures.

Altherma ’s intelligent controller can be set to exactly match your needs and usage and to adapt to the current weather conditions. Altherma can also work in reverse to offer highly effective climate control in hot weather. It also controls the solar tube water heating which features an electric reserve back up and a weekly automated cleaning cycle. Altherma has recently been awarded the European Eco-Label.

Insulation

Due to its low outside to inside surface ratio, a Shoreline home is inherently more heat retaining than most properties of similar volume. Silvertex roof insulation, suspended ceilings with super high insulating properties, and the composite concrete hollow rib floors all help retain heat.

Shoreline also has excellent noise insulation, delivered by good design plus double glazing and noise reducing underlay to the wooden laminate floor.

Fittings

The show home features LED lighting in the bathrooms plus low energy lighting throughout the house. The custom made kitchen and other domestic spaces feature a clean modern timeless design, that is built to last and removes the pressure to refit every few years.

Groundworks

The most challenging aspect of this development was getting out of the ground. This involved detailed site preparation and major civil engineering works.

The Shoreline development is sited on a steep slope which although ensuring the great views, proved a complex build under very strict planning conditions. Phoenix Trinity took 8 months to create a solid method statement, and gather the required team, including local firms Performance Foundations and BDR Structural Engineers. The solution involved boring and forming very deep concrete and reinforced auger bored piles, inserting a steel cage, building a contiguous piled wall and a capping and ground beam. The result is an exceptionally solid structure.