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‘Under the Sun’, a Victorian terrace house in Birmingham is an outstanding example of bringing a fairly typical old building up to PassivhausSee more on the PassivhausSee more on the Passivhaus standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived from the idea of buildings which are fundamentally low energy and passive solar heated rather than using extra gadgets to heat them. See Passivhaus for the UK branch of the organisation. standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived [...] May 21st, 2011 | Tags: air quality, building, building contract, building materials, building regulations, building supplies, calculations, certification, Code for Sustainable Homes, Code for Sustainable Homes level 5, Code for Sustainable Homes level 6, construction, consultant, costings, CSH, CSH level 6, damp proofing, decision making, decorating, decoration, demolishing, demolition, demolitions, DPCs, DPM, DPMs, draft excluder, drafts, drawings, dry lining, embodied energy, Energy performance certificate, EPC, estimating, extend, extension, exterior, external insulation, external wall insulation, feed in tariff, floor boards, floor finishes, floors, fuel, fuels, green design, grey water, ground floor, ground source heat pump, ground source heat pumps, GSHP, hard surfaces, hardstanding, health and safety, heat recovery, heat store, heat stores, heating, hot water, internal walls, joinery, lifelong homes, lifetime homes, lighting, lighting design, lime render, maintenance, managing self build, materials, mineral fibre, mortgage, mortgages, natural finishes, natural paints, passive gain, passive solar, Passivhaus standard, phenolic foam, planning, planning approval, planning permission, polystyrene, polyurethane, preservatives, PV, radiators, rain water, regulations, repair, retrofit, reuse, reused, reverse metering, rock wool, SAP, secondary glazing, solar, sub contractor, temporary services, timber | Category: | Leave a comment demolition is not without its risks Building Controlthe local authority department which deals with the Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) Demolition of existing buildings is covered on the Planning Portal web site. Also if there is a tenant in the building then check out Initial demolition notices Basically the local authority Building Controlthe local authority department which deals with the Building RegulationsThese are the legal [...] January 30th, 2011 | Tags: brownfield, building, building regulations, building site, cement, concrete, construction, demolishing, demolitions, digger, drains, excavating, foundations, hardcore, levelling, planning, planning permission, toxic waste | Category: | Leave a comment Have fun designing your house. There are several worthwhile advantages if you do your own design work (or at least part of it) - it may be the only way to get what you want. you achieve a kind of creative act that you can do in very few realms of your life. you [...] March 29th, 2010 | Tags: aesthetics, architect, architectural technicians, building materials, building regulations, building site, Code for Sustainable Homes, Code for Sustainable Homes level 5, Code for Sustainable Homes level 6, costings, CSH, CSH level 6, design, drawings, examples, fire resistance, green design, inspiration, lifelong homes, lifetime homes, lighting design, low energy, planning, planning approval, planning permission, plans, saving energy, self build exhibitions, self build shows, software, superinsulation | Category: | Leave a comment Although architects have been quite slow on learning about green design principles there has recently been a bit of a scramble to catch up and they all now claim to know about the subject. In fact most architects practices leave the technical work to architectural technicians they employ. It may pay to ask quite detailed [...] May 14th, 2009 | Tags: aesthetics, architects, brief, calculations, consultant, drawings, fees, green design, inspiration, managing self build, planning, planning approval, planning permission | Category: | Leave a comment Permissions and regulations The two main permissions you will most often require for building work are Planning Permissionthe legal basis for being allowed to do some form of development such as building a house. (not to be confused with Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which is all about whether the building is properly constructed). see more on Planning Permission and Building Regulations consent. Planning Permission deals with the overall issue of what kind of houses are permissible in which area. The planning officers are employed by the local council. Building Regulations deal with whether the building [...] July 13th, 2008 | Tags: aesthetics, air tightness, approval, building regulations, Code for Sustainable Homes, Code for Sustainable Homes level 5, Code for Sustainable Homes level 6, construction, CSH level 6, demolishing, demolition, demolitions, disabled access, Eco label, Energy performance certificate, EPC, fees, habitat, health, health and safety, Hetas, home report, IP ratings, IP zones, law, legal models, loadings, party wall, planning, planning approval, planning permission, WEEE, wildlife, Wildlife and Countryside Act | Category: | 2 comments autumn 2009 from left to right – individual houses, the communal village green area, bungalows, the terrace of houses and, (bright red), the flats above the workshops and community centre CLICK ABOVE FOR 3D PANORAMIC IMAGE WITH DRAG AND ZOOM This is one of the most interesting recent examples of group self-build in [...] March 12th, 2008 | Tags: communal, community, construction, examples, inspiration, insulation, land, low energy, planning | Category: | 2 comments |
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