There is growing awareness worldwide of the need to take action to mitigate the effects of Climate Change. The performance of buildings in terms of the energy required for heating…
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Flood Resilience
Yorkshire Flood Resilience is one of three DEFRA-funded pathfinder partnership projects nationwide that are working to raise awareness of property flood resilience and its benefits among home and business owners,…
Feature Self Build – Wallform Shell Complete
It’s taken a little over 8 weeks for this self-build project to go from foundation excavations to Wallform shell complete. It’s now ready for roofing and glazing. That’s a very…
Feature Self Build – Beam and Block Floor
Things have been progressing well on site over the last couple of weeks. There was a minor delay with delivery of the steel beams and floor system components. However, with…
Beco Products Win Best ICF Supplier 2020
The Homebuilding & Renovating Industry Awards were created to acknowledge and celebrate the best of the Self Build and Custom Housing sector. They were launched to coincide with the 30th…
Feature Self Build – Ground Floor Walls
The latest update from site on our featured self-build project is that all Wallform walls are complete to underside of first floor level. In this photo scaffolding boards are beginning…
Feature Self Build – Precast Concrete Floor
As can be seen from this latest photo of our on-going ‘In Construction’ self-build, the precast beam and block ground floor system has now been successfully installed. Unfortunately, the windy…
Feature Self Build – Wallform Substructure In
With the foundation trenches excavated and concreted, this week the Wallform substructure walls have been built to ground floor level, and concreted! The first Wallform courses were laid directly on…
Feature Self Build – Footings
It has been a productive week on site at our feature self-build project. As you can see, the footings have been excavated and the trenchfill foundations poured. With the site…
Feature Self-Build
Beginning construction now is this four-bedroom self-build home, which features a main living, eating, and sleeping block with separate wing for a guest bedroom, garage and workshop. Designed by Western…