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| This website is the on-going documentation of Rik Lander's project to build a workshop in inner city Bristol using eco-principles. The over-riding principle is to bring as little in and take as little away as possible. | ||
• blog
• plans
• links
• home
To express an interest or book your place, email: build@bristol
greenhouse.co.uk
| LATEST NEWS Thursday 1st of May |
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| It's amazing what a bit of a tidy up will do. I took this through the window at the back. Not looking too shabby though. Read the blog here. Newt News! The newts have been getting frisky, doing their strange mating dance and laying eggs in the new pond. AND I found a fox sleeping on the roof last week. |
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• Tyre walls
• Straw bale walls
• I-beam roof
• Living roof
• Clay/Lime render
• Insulation
• Earthbags
Learn green building skills by doing. Rik Lander is building a workshop in a back garden in Ashley Down, North Bristol, using straw bale, rammed earth tyres and rubble filled gabions. The walls will be rendered with clay from the site and the building will have a living turf roof constructed from wooden i-beams. |
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Over the summer we have run courses on many aspects of green building and worked with Amazon Nails and Brighton's Low Carbon Network, builders of the Brighton Earthship. The project is on-going and there will be further volunteering opportunities.
We are using the construction techniques of the future using the principles of re-use, recycling and low embodied energy.
Come and help us build this ground-breaking building and learn how to build your own. Volunteering is essentially an exchange of labour for knowledge.
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