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How can we make old houses energy efficient without devaluing
future sustainability? And how can we do so without compromising
their appeal and character? This practical and essential
guide to retrofitting for energy efficiency seeks to provide
answers to this and other questions homeowners of old houses are
asking. Whether your house is medieval and timber-framed or
a Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian terrace, it can be made
more energy efficient and sustainable. This practical,
comprehensive and fully illustrated handbook will show you
how. Revised and updated throughout, and with a foreword by
Kevin McCloud, Old House Eco Handbook includes chapters on
the building envelope; roofs and ceilings; windows and doors;
walls; floors; paints; energy, air and water;
plus a brand new chapter on retrofit materials. In
association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings, this is a must have for owners of old houses looking to
make their homes more energy efficient and sustainable.
This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his
background, influences, thoughts, writings, his unique approach to
architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact
on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It
firstly sets out his formative years in Continental Europe. Segal's
father was an eminent modernist painter and a founder of the Dada
movement. Walter grew up surrounded by leaders of the European
avant-garde. Qualifying as architect in Germany just as the Nazi
party came to power, Segal moved to Switzerland, Mallorca, Egypt
and finally to London in 1936. The second section focuses on Walter
Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and
independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread
his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture
developed towards the timber-frame form known world-wide today as
'the Segal system', which could be used by people to build their
own houses. The third section follows the development of the
timber-frame form known world-wide today as 'the Segal method' and
how it came to be used by people to build and indeed design their
own houses. This culminated at the time of Segal's death in two
areas of self-built public authority social housing in London -
housing which, nearly half a century later, remains as unique and
highly desirable neighbourhoods. The final section explores the
legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and
example, half a century after his timber 'method' was developed,
leads to the possibility of making, and then living within,
communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily
assembled, planet-friendly timber-frame building system today and
tomorrow.
All the episodes from the first two series of the D.I.Y. programme
in which Kevin McCloud shows how anyone can build their own home.
In series one Kevin sets about building a woodland cabin in
Somerset. Recycling, reusing and repurposing various materials as
he goes, Kevin builds his house from scratch and in the process
creates his own biodiesel and methane, makes glass using sand and a
chair using a 1950s tractor and even finds a way to heat his own
hot tub. In series two Kevin creates his own beach hut on the
Jurassic Coast, complete with a rotating hammock, an observation
tower and a solar-powered shower.
All four episodes from the second series of the documentary in
which Kevin McCloud builds a small home, recycling, reusing and
repurposing various materials as he goes. In this series, Kevin
creates his own beach hut on the Jurassic Coast, complete with a
rotating hammock, an observation tower and a solar-powered shower.
Four-part documentary series in which Kevin McCloud builds his own
woodland cabin in Somerset. Recycling, reusing and repurposing
various materials as he goes, Kevin builds his house from scratch
and in the process creates his own biodiesel and methane, makes
glass using sand and a chair using a 1950s tractor and even finds a
way to heat his own hot tub.
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