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- Load-bearing 3-storey clay block walls well wrapped up against the April showers. #
- The school just opposite the house has won funding to use it as part of a “green” education project. #
- http://www.greenspec.co.uk/html/lowcarbon/context.html reminds us that embodied energy is omitted from the current standards of CSH. Why? #
- http://www.greenspec.co.uk/html/lowcarbon/lowcarbonstandards6.html has loads of tech data and design notes on CSH Level 6 on a single page. #
- CSH = Code for Sustainable Homes. Level 6 is the highest, zero carbon level. It will be mandatory for new houses from 2016. #
- RuralZED is claiming to go beyond Level 6 with another of its eco-prefabs. http://tinyurl.com/dy3g5y. Wind turbine offsets embodied energy. #
- A Birmingham housing association gets passive solar add-ons http://tinyurl.com/c7qhav #
