These questions and more are explored on Saturday 15th September during a day of over 20 unmissable Open Cambridge events, including talks and walking or cycling tours at the award-winning new community, Eddington.
Part of the University of Cambridge’s North West Cambridge Development, Eddington is one of the most modern and eco-friendly places in the UK. It already has a primary school, community centre, which has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize, supermarket and sporting facilities with more to come.
The first phase of Eddington is focussed on creating the foundations for a long-lasting and sustainable community, with some 700 homes and facilities to support new residents, neighbours and the wider Cambridge community.
Key highlights of the day, part of the Open Cambridge weekend which starts on Friday 14th September, include an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour to see how the engineering works inside Cambridge’s first energy centre and district heating network. Visitors can discover how a house receives heating without a boiler. The homes in Eddington do not have individual boilers but instead have a link to the energy centre via a district heating network that provides heating and hot water across the entire site.
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