On 16th – 17th April 2011 is another exciting event at The National Self Build & Renovation Centre in Swindon, off the M4 junction 16.
Coming soon, 3 weeks away, this event is a practical guide to what to do to renovate, refurbish and generally spring build your home.
With 200 exhibitors, many workshops and master classes [...]
Hanse Haus make modular eco-friendly houses that are simple to construct and cheap too. They are ideal for quick builds on cheap land, as normal housing development involves buying expensive land. This means the new build property has to maximize the potential of the site, and be custom built, to get the best price on [...]
News here is that we adding a big new section on how to buy wholesale supplies and wholesale products for all aspects of building and construction. We think that DIY and small time and amateur builders should also benefit from cheap and low cost building supplies. Already suppliers like Wickes, B&Q and Homebase, Home Depot [...]
In the continuing series of articles we look at Team Building.
We will be expanding the range of subjects on this site.
Team building is needed in offices as the people might just ignore each other forever. So to generate some more work, some more cohesion, and reduce staff turnover, team building activities are organised.
See our [...]
Not long to go to Christmas so we have added some articles just for this season.
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Improve your kitchen appliances:
Ovens, cookers, steam, convection, microwave >
Hobs, cooktops, gas, electric, halogen, induction >
Extractor hoods, integrated hoods, kitchen, ventilation, electric chimney >
Christmas green advice, and presents
Christmas trees – advice and tips – cut trees >
Tools make great [...]
Registration is now open for the big Ecobuild exhibition at London’s ExCeL. This is in Canary Wharf and is a very interesting place to visit.
Dates are Tuesday 01 March to Thursday 03 March 2011.
There are 1300 exhibitors, all sorts and sizes, since everyone does green certified materials and processes these days. This is a fun [...]
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Seminars and show, this Saturday 27th November, at National Self Build & Renovation Centre, Swindon, off M4.
Eco Technologies Workshop – Retrofit Your Home – 10am – 5pm
95% – 99% of housing is old not new – so green and sustainable technology has to be added to OLD homes and office snot just glamorous new housing.
solar [...]
There is a plan afoot to convert Riley’s snooker hall (once Jesters) on the corner of Wimbledon Park Road and Pirbright Road, Southfields London SW18, into a cinema.
Which it was originally.
Having been inside, it is a great building, proper full height ceiling and wasted as a snooker hall. Unless the vast space was for fag [...]
Who with what com is an initially interesting site which examines what some famous buildings are actually made of, and how they were made. Although the South Bank Centre in London is not in there. So don’t bother looking for your favourite building, just go with their small selection.
Perhaps it will expand over the [...]
This major DIY building event has crept up on us a bit, recommended to get down there, usually quite interesting, and you can go to Lydiard House afterward (look it up on Google maps). Or central Swindon, or the Outlook Centre for some cheap clothes… or even the Steam museum.
There are green DIY info Seminars, [...]
