Government department Communities & Local Government has published an Implementation Plan for it’s proposals on the Future of Building Control.
With a background of climate and demographic change read more...
posted in Sustainability . building regulations
The other week I was party to a Building Regulation package put together by someone else and was curious to find specification that I believed wasn’t read more...
posted in building regulations
TRADA, the respected Timber Research and Development Association, has renewed it’s certificate for Actis Tri Iso Super 10.
Despite the controversy surrounding the claim by Actis that read more...
posted in Energy Efficiency . building regulations
Government Response to 2008 Consultation on Proposed Changes to Part L
Government department Communities & Local Government has recently published (18 June 09) a report on read more...
posted in Energy Efficiency . Green Building . building regulations
Robert is a rather quirky business adviser (which I liked); he had the uncanny knack of asking questions that really made me think. He’s got a read more...
Recent research by CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) suggests that residents of new homes built between 2003 & 2006 believe that read more...
posted in Architecture . Planning
Roger designs & makes very nice furniture. When I first saw his furniture I felt that it had a Krenov feel (there was actually a read more...
Earthly Ideas was created by Jason Borthwick to give diversification, environmental and marketing help and advice to farms, rural and urban businesses who aren’t quite read more...
Roger Whitfield sent me the following email…
Re sash windows – the first answer is to (retro-) draughtseal them – otherwise air movement through the window read more...
posted in Energy Efficiency
eastex is a free service to businesses to keep useful materials in circulation. It works by matching one organisation’s unwanted waste with a requirement by read more...