{"id":351195,"date":"2025-08-17T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351195\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:08:10","slug":"city-living-what-can-be-done-about-londons-overheating-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351195\/","title":{"rendered":"City living: What can be done about London&#8217;s overheating homes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London architect Sean Hill specialises in designing homes that need very little energy to keep them warm or cool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says there are various aspects that can be taken into account when designing a home, including &#8220;the insulation of the building, the position and orientation of the building, the position of the windows [and] the size of the windows, in terms of overheating and as well as ventilating the space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His firm are working with couple Freya and Alex who recently bought a new home and want to introduce measures so that the space stays warm in the winter and cool in summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We wanted to come in and kind of future-proof it, make it so that we thought it would be liveable for the next 20-plus years&#8230; so you don&#8217;t get too hot or too cold,&#8221; says Freya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That was our aim and because we&#8217;re lucky enough to be able to do it all in one go at the beginning, we&#8217;re going all out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London architect Sean Hill specialises in designing homes that need very little energy to keep them warm or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043087498299563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}