Table of Contents

Part I:

Introduction

A Beginner’s Guide to ZEDlife

The ZEDlife: A call to engage

Part II: The ZEDlife Tools

The ZEDroof

Solar-charged exchangeable batteries

Low carbon transport: The ZEDbike, electric vehicles and the filling stations of the future

Building-level energy systems: Air sourced head pumps and solar assisted heating and cooling

District-level energy systems and food production

Retrofit of existing buildings

Rainwater harvesting and water re-use

Tool combinations

Part III: The ZEDlife in practice

The Zero-bills home

ZEDpods

Shoreham Cement Works Holiday Park

Rehousing Somalia’s IDPs: From emergency housing to a long-term urban solution

AfricaZED

Shanghai Expo ZED Pavillion

Higher density strategies: living under a park

One Planet Business Centre

Jingdezhen Ceramic Centre and the urban solar farm

BedZED

Conclusions

About the Author

Bill Dunster OBE is an architect. He founded ZEDfactory in 1999 and in 2010 received an OBE for Services to Sustainable Housing Design. He has taught at the Architectural Association, UCL, Kingston University, Harvard, EPFL in Lausanne, and is currently a Visiting Professor of Zero Carbon Urbanism at UCL and at Cardiff University.