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Green Home Building How we build our homes, both in design and choice of materials, is one of the most significant ways that we can affect our future. Much of the concern boils down to the use of energy. How much embodied energy is in the building materials themselves, in their transportation and assembling? Then once the house is built, how much energy does it consume to keep its inhabitants comfortable? Consumption of energy has a direct influence on environmental quality, because of the inherent pollution through greenhouse gasses and other emissions. The Green Home Building site provides a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building.
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Timber Frame Houses, by Michael Morris and Dick Priozzolo Anyone who steps inside a timber-frame, or post-and-beam, house for the first time invariably comes away impressed - even a bit awed - by what is encountered.
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Buy Timber-Frame Houses (Fine Homebuilding/Great Houses) at Amazon.com a huge selection of books on Timber-Frame Houses (Fine Homebuilding/Great Houses).
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Timber-Frame Houses A thorough introduction to modern timber framing
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Do I Need a Builder? Extract from The Housebuilder's Bible (Ch 5, Section 2, Working with Builders)
WSSBT - Walter Segal Self Build Trust - building your own home. UK charity advising on group self build, ecological design, community initiatives & training
Introduction to Environmentally Friendly Timber Frame Self Build A one day course to be held in various venues around the UK. This is a short introductory course designed for anyone interested in self build. The aim is inform and inspire, so information presented will not be too technical.
Self Build to Take Big Market Share New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that self build homes are making a significant impact on the property market
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Foundations for the Future Sustainable Development is at the heart of this country's agenda, globally, nationally and locally. It forms a framework to ensure that decisions taken today support people's needs now and in the future. By choosing to take part in this agenda, associations have an unrivalled opportunity. They can help bring about real social, economic and environmental improvements to the opportunities and quality of life available to people living in cities, towns and villages.
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Manufacturing the Future - conference tackling the benefits of off-site manufacture and system building, "...reduced construction times, good design, best possible use of land, energy efficiency, and lower fuel bills are just some of the benefits that can be achieved through the use of off-site manufacture" Lord Rookes, minister for housing, planning and regeneration.
Sustainable Homes promotes awareness of sustainable development issues and good practice, and encourages housing associations to adopt sustainable and environmental policies and practices. The social, economic and environmental impacts of housing associations need to be sustainable. There are compelling reasons why housing associations should adopt sustainable development as a core business aim; not only because Government and the Housing Corporation are requesting it, but because it makes good sense.
Sustainability Works The guide for anyone interested in developing sustainable housing. You are invited to consider 8 interlinked topics: land, buildings, society, travel, waste. landscape, energy and water. A full guide is provided for information and research. Use this to predict a BRE rating for a project, produce a Housing Corporation Sustainability Toolkit report, make a Housing Quality Indicators submission.
Timber frame offers a genuinely sustainable method of construction. In the 21st century, timber frame is one of the most advanced forms of construction. Factory prefabrication ensures high quality, reduces overall build costs and shortens programmes. Over 70% of the population in the developed world live in timber frame housing.
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Timber Frame 2000 The well-documented Timber Frame 2000 project provided a six-storey experimental timber frame building (Figure 1), the first of its kind in the world, for the sole purpose of investigating the performance and economic prospects of medium-rise timber frame buildings in the UK. The majority of associated research projects conducted on this building have been completed and the results presented on an international forum. This paper summarises the TF2000 project to date and provides salient results from research conducted on the experimental building.
UK Timber Frame Association As well as promoting timber frame construction, UKTFA provides technical guidance
Timber Research & Development Association (TRADA) The Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) - is an internationally recognised centre of excellence on the specification and use of timber and wood products
The Wood Shop aims to promote the use of quality wood products and best practice through independent assessment, representation, technical support and promotion.
Wood for Good Why is timber frame the fastest growing method of construction in the UK?
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