What could streets of the future look like?
Stroll through a street of the future
- Turning old car parks into pedestrian areas, gyms and play parks
- More green spaces, trees, green walls
- Biosolar roofs
- Enhanced pedestrianised zones with wider pavements to take back the city for leisure
- Fewer cars on the road, more car sharing, e-scooters and e-bikes
- Available charging points for EVs, e-scooters and e-bikes
- Landing pads for drone deliveries
- E-delivery vans and more sustainable ‘last mile’ delivery solutions
- Hydrogen as a solution for long distance travel and heavy industry energy needs
- All new buildings developed to net-zero standard
- New net-zero carbon buildings (inc. solar panels, solar glazing, heat pumps, insulation etc)
- Retrofitted buildings (inc. solar panels, solar glazing, heat pumps, insulation etc)
- Irrigation system to harvest rain and river water, and underground flooding solutions
- Fossil fuels replaced by more renewables
- Sharing energy between commercial and residential buildings
- EV Batteries to support power needs (Vehicle to Grid solutions)
- Repurposing ‘waste’ heat from sewers and underground railways
- Capturing geothermal heat from storage from under the ground
- Large commercial heat pumps and underground heat networks supplying urban areas
- Battery storage to make best use of renewable power sources
What is a street of the future?
Be the change
We can help you evolve your home in to an energy efficient home of the future with our range of sustainable products and solutions.
Heating your business with a heat pump, or harnessing the power of the sun with solar panels can help your business to meet 2050 net zero ambitions.
We must create communities that reduce our impact on the planet while also feeling inclusive, safe and equipped to support a sustainable lifestyle.
The race to net zero is .ON
We all live and work in buildings, we walk down the streets and through the communities that connect them every day. However, our buildings, towns, cities and the infrastructure that lies between significantly contribute to climate change. The move to be more sustainable will drive significant changes within our buildings and across our streets; it has the potential to change life as we know it, supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of local individuals, businesses, communities and future generations.
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