Clayworks Wins Major International Design Award
Clayworks, the Cornwall based creators and manufacturers of pigmented clay plasters for internal wall finishes, have won the ‘ Best Surface Finishes’ category at this years FX International Design...
View ArticleBeattie Passive Build System Limited – Pete Halsall joins the Team
The board of Beattie Passive is delighted to announce the appointment of Pete Halsall as Chief Executive Officer. With over thirty years’ experience in the construction industry, Pete’s background in...
View ArticleThe Tooley & Foster Partnership win award and are finalists at the Sustain’...
AECB member The Tooley & Foster Partnership won the Sustainable Larger Housing Project of the Year award at the 2012 Sustainable Housing Awards for their scheme at New Cranes Court in Basildon,...
View ArticleCIBSE Performance Awards 2013 “New Build Project of the Year” Bushbury Hill...
The brief for Bushbury Hill Primary School was to design a standard one-form-entry school with a 30-place nursery and facilities for a local multi-agency support team. The ventilation and heating...
View ArticleThe Tooley & Foster Partnership: launch of new website ‘Accredited Passivhaus...
The Tooley & Foster Partnership have launched the website for the Passivhaus arm of their business ‘Accredited Passivhaus Design’ – www.accreditedpassivhausdesign.com Peter Ranken, their Certified...
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View ArticleAnother Sustainable Award Win for The Tooley & Foster Partnership
Tooly and Foster Partnership’s carbon neutral development of 16 houses and 12 flats at New Cranes Court in Basildon, for Swan Housing Group, has picked up its third sustainability award, the Sustain...
View ArticleThermal Imaging Specialist G&S Energy adds NHBC to its growing client base.
Sussex’s own thermal imaging specialist Gardner & Scardifield Energy has recently added Spitalfields and now the National House Building Council (NHBC) to its growing list of clients. The NHBC...
View ArticleOyster Falls developed by Point 6 Projects Ltd
Point 6 Projects Ltd, run by Eddie Acford, has undertaken their most complicated project to date. Oyster Falls is a Passivhaus overlooking the beautiful Croyde Bay in North Devon. At just under...
View ArticleBeattie Passive building the Coventry ECO House
Beattie Passive and Encraft are pleased to be working together on the Coventry ECO House project. These homes will be certified to the Passivhaus energy performance standard and also through the Code...
View ArticleBeattie Passive launch new joint venture with The Norse Group
Beattie Passive has launched a new joint venture with The Norse Group, a company which works across the UK but is wholly owned by Norfolk County Council. The Norse Group specialises in building and...
View ArticleMedair Assessment Following Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines
Eric Fewster, an AECB member, has just returned from the Philippines where he was part of the assessment and first response team in one of the worst affected areas following Typhoon Haiyan. The...
View ArticleNew Passivhaus Homes Revitalise Sandiacre
Consulting engineers Encraft Ltd have provided Passivhaus consultancy to the first new build homes to achieve Passivhaus certification in the East Midlands. Nine new homes have been completed as part...
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Greenshop Group
Roger Budgeon of Greenshop Group has won the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s award for ‘outstanding contribution to nature in Gloucestershire by a business leader’. This is part of the GWT’s ‘Nature...
View ArticleGreenright Homes
Greenright Homes continues to build sustainable homes in East Anglia despite the difficult market conditions and the quality of the houses being delivered has been recognised in the receipt of further...
View ArticleNatSol Ltd: Compus Full Access Compost Toilet System Winner of the 2013 Loo...
Last year the Stoerhead Lighthouse Walker’s Car Park toilet in Assynt, Scotland was installed using AECB member Natsol’s Compus Full Access compost system with the latest stainless steel pedestal...
View ArticleTo Russia with Love: Sheffield based Social Enterprise is at Winter Olympics...
AECB member, Recovery Insulation (RI) is a Sheffield-based social enterprise that manufactures and distributes Inno-Therm® – a non-itch, high performance ‘eco’ thermal and acoustic insulation – made...
View ArticleWhole-life costs of a Passivhaus: Sensitivities of whole-life cost analysis...
Encraft’s Building Physics team recently published a technical insight that investigated the sensitivities which arise when modelling whole-life costs of Passivhaus dwellings. The technical insight,...
View ArticleHPW Architecture: A Self-Sustaining First in Construction
Construction has started on a pioneering new self-sustaining building which will be the first of its kind in Hampshire at New Forest outdoor activity centre Avon Tyrrell. Ower-based architectural...
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