Archive for the category ‘Materials’
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Airtight Homes
Air leaks can make your home noticeably colder, meaning that you waste more energy trying to keep the heat levels constant. The issue is a... Read more »
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How to choose sustainable construction materials
In sustainable construction, choosing sustainable materials and products can be challenging. Inferior, traditional building products are chosen based on aesthetics, and value. However, sustainable building... Read more »
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Rematerialise
In our quest to ensure in any project we embark on uses materials in the most efficient and renewable manner possible, be that recycled materials,... Read more »
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Embodied Energy
We often focus on the overall reduction on the use of energy from fossil fuels, and rightly so as about half the energy use in... Read more »
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Lino – for the future, not the 70′s!
Linoleum doesn’t get talked about much any more as a floor covering choice and we are here to change that. For some reason it does... Read more »
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Timber & the FSC
With any building or refurbishment timber will be used at one stage or another or throughout the build. Whether it is simply used for door frames... Read more »