New Project Part II

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Our first week on the job was spent investigating what we couldn’t find out before; exactly what lay under the carpets, where the drains run, getting the water and gas turned off so we could start removing the existing bathroom and kitchen, having the electrician set up a site RCD (for safety), and discuss the electrical layout. With the help …

New Year – New Project

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So – it has been a busy start to the new year already, along with some amazing work we are doing with the Green Building Partnership and other project partners in Brighton we have also begun a new full house eco-renovation project. Based in central Brighton this is a detached house built in the 1940s/50s with a classic layout, tiled …

Timber Framed Eco House complete

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Congratulations to our client who has successfully completed the building of the timber framed Eco House in Coldean that we have been working on for the last several years. From the original concept of this eco-house right through to the final certification in Code for Sustainable Homes this has truly been a long, involved, complicated, frustrating but ultimately successful process. …

CO2 emissions rises mean dangerous climate change now almost certain

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Carbon dioxide emissions from industry rose an estimated 2.6% this year, according to a study of global carbon emissions. This article was printed on the Guardian Website – Dec 2012 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/03/co2-emissions-climate-change-certain The research by the Global Carbon Project, an annual report card on mankind’s CO2 pollution, also says emissions grew 3.1% in 2011, placing the world on a near-certain …

Green Deal Launched… trumpet fanfare?

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Well, the much vaunted Green Deal; in Greg Barker MP’s words – a “revolution in the way we undertake energy efficiency improvements” has been launched in the UK. Did you hear the trumpet fanfare? The drums roll? The large scale promotion that was promised? No, us neither. There was a front page article in the Guardian’s Money section on Saturday …

We have a new phone number

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Hi All, we now have a new telephone number – until now we have been using VOIP but the signal in our office is pretty poor so we have succumbed to a standard landline – please update your records that our phone number is now 01273 202866. Look forward to speaking with you soon.