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Mar 27, 20194 min read
Green Design, Green Upkeep: Building and Maintaining Your Environmentally-Friendly Home
Residing in an energy-efficient building not only lowers your utility bills but can also add an average of 14% to your home’s value,...
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Mar 17, 20194 min read
Team Trip to Kingspan to Learn about Timber Frame Housing
It is always very productive and a change of scene; to get the Building Tectonics team out of the office together to learn more about...
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Jan 26, 20192 min read
Adding Energy Efficiency to Your Home Construction or Remodelling Plan
The repair, maintenance and improvement market for UK housing is about 25 billion per year according to the Construction Products...
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Jun 10, 20162 min read
Overheating
We have only just taken off the winter duvet and turned off our heating and people are complaining that they are too hot. I have to say...
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Jun 12, 20151 min read
The Tiny House Movement: Ecocapsules
Following the tiny house movement, which is a movement in which people are downsizing the space in which they live. The main reason for...
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Dec 23, 20132 min read
Renewable Heat Incentive.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the first government funded scheme of its type in the world, in the sense that it is the first...
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vc2043
Dec 16, 20132 min read
Photo-voltaic Panels
Photovoltaic panels are a highly efficient way of lowering your electricity bills. If you had these installed, you would be generating...
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Dec 9, 20132 min read
Ground source heat pumps
Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) use pipes which are buried underground to extract the constant heat which is generated in the ground,...
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Dec 6, 20132 min read
Borehole Thermal Energy Storage
Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (or BTES) is basically an underground structure, usually quite large, which is used to store large...
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vc2043
Dec 3, 20132 min read
Solar water panels.
There is a technology which is becoming more and more readily available, that can help out with your heating bills. You may (or may not)...
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vc2043
Nov 25, 20132 min read
Keeping warm: a cheaper option – trombe walls.
A Trombe wall is a very good example of a passive heat source, in the sense that there are no mechanical parts used for the simple...
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vc2043
Nov 22, 20131 min read
Heat recovery systems
If you’re thinking about building an energy efficient home, then a heat recovery system could help you to meet some of the heating needs...
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Nov 18, 20131 min read
Structural Insulated Panels
Structural Insulated Panels (otherwise known as SIPs) can be an alternative to the traditional framed building. An SIP is a composite...
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Nov 8, 20132 min read
Thermal Heat Storage – Rock stores.
Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a way of storing heat from the summer to use in the winter. You could think of it as a heat...
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vc2043
Oct 7, 20133 min read
What a code 6 house is.
We are currently working on an exciting project involving a code 6 eco house. The design for this house has been assessed using the Code...
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Oct 4, 20131 min read
New zero energy homes from 2016 onwards?
Some of you may already know this, but within the next few years, the industry of construction within the UK is being given quite a...
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vc2043
Sep 20, 20132 min read
Energy efficient with the NEF
We could all become more energy efficient through a number of strategies including government introduced incentives and grants as well as...
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vc2043
Aug 16, 20132 min read
Revealed: The not so secret, secret about insulation…
When you think about insulation, I’ll bet that you only think of it in terms of keeping the heat in, keeping your home cosy and your...
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Oct 5, 20101 min read
Making your house more energy efficient
One of the real tangible benefits of extending your house, whether it's upwards (a loft conversion) or outwards (extending the building)...
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