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The Cascade, City Road Cardiff
The Cascade is a seven‐storey apartment block located on City Road, Cardiff constructed from
Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels enabling significant reduction in carbon impact. Linc were
awarded funding under the Innovative Housing Programme (IHP) in 2019, and the project is
currently nearing completion.
• carbon is embodied in CLT structure and frame for the lifetime of the building;
• timber is sourced from sustainably managed forests;
• minimisation of waste during an automated and tailored manufacturing process;
• design enhanced by extensive external planting to facade to maximise greening; and
• foundations constructed from CEM‐free concrete reducing carbon impact of source materials.
Ladyhill, Newport
The former Ladyhill Day Centre and Severn Stiles Pub in Newport were demolished to enable Pobl
to construct 39 two and three‐bedroom houses for social rent (constructed to EPC A+ standard).
The project, completed in December 2024 was supported by Welsh Government’s IHP Year 4
funding round. The key objectives were to explore the benefits of MMC integrated with renewable
technologies to produce a standardised range of low carbon homes capable of being replicated in
future without additional funding.
To achieve excellent energy performance and to lower energy bills, energy efficient and renewable
technology solutions were needed, including:
• ground Source Heat Pumps (with a total 19 boreholes, ranging from 130‐180m deep);
• underfloor heating (to ground floors) and radiators (to first floors);
• PV panels to all properties;
• batteries (for energy storage and export back to the grid) and
• Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery System (MVHR) to the whole house.
Ladyhill, Newport The Cascade, Cardiff