Blue Peter sleep over in eco-home

PA 92/11 As part of their Climate Week coverage next week Blue Peter presenters Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood took up residence in one of the eco-homes on Green Close at The University of Nottingham to find out just how energy efficient - or not - they are. Together with Barney the dog they spent 24 hours in the E.ON 2016 research house, part of the Creative Energy Homes Project which is led by the Department of Architecture and Built Environment. The house is a re-creation of a 1930s semi-detached home which is being used to trial and test energy retrofit solutions aimed at reducing the carbon impact of the UK's existing housing stock. As part of a research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and E.ON the house is equipped with a high-tech real time location energy and occupancy monitoring system. The system was used to find out just how much energy Helen, Barney and Barney the dog used and how much they wasted. The results will be revealed on Monday March 212011 on Blue Peter at 4.30pm. Helen and Barney, along with Barney the dog, wanted to find out how much energy they used on an average couple of days.