Ecobuild 2011 is fast approaching on Tuesday 1 March to Thursday 3 March. This is great for DIY people and builders to get the latest Green Building and Sustainable techniques, have a great day out, and learn some new things from the lectures and seminars.
Attraction in the lecture series are:
Human rights campaigner – Bianca Jagger
Professor [...]
Happy New Year!
We have removed the Christmas articles on trees, decorations, green Christmas and presents.
We are adding articles on
fireplaces
double glazing
insulation
snow clearance
These will be online in the next week.
Not long to go to Christmas so we have added some articles just for this season.
Please visit:
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, [...]
We have a whole new section on Lights and Lighting, to add to our existing light and solar power sections.
See our lighting and lights pages:
Lamps, lighting, lights design, uplighters, chandeliers >
Light in basement, cellars, underground lighting >
Lighting the home, house, commercial, shops >
Llighting, lights, technology types, halogen, neon, LED, solar, laser >
Llighting outdoors, garden [...]
Research by HTA – actually a sponsored Phd – shows that planting against external walls increases insulation by a big factor.
The vegetation ‘buffers’ the wall environment against cooling, and behind the plants it can be anything up to 6 degrees higher.
Of course, in the summer, vegetation will also shade the walls, making them [...]
