Volume 17 No.1
Summer 2007

Highlights in this issue

Greenrush - green building organisations in the spotlight. 14
Fresh hope - for green housebuilders 18
Zero carbon - is it just a big red herring? 20

Main feature building elements - walls
Real world walls 24
Heavyweight or hybrid 26
Modelling - to assess the benefits of thermal mass 29
SIPs - factory fabrication beats on-site vagaries 34
Earthships 39
Eco-pads - old tyres for new rotating mansion 42
Hybrid walls - straw and timber 45
Cob - a material for future walls? 47
Scottish timberbuild - return of the forests 52
Transition towns - after peak oil 60
The forum debate - multi-foil insulation 62
Low impact living - in a woodland dwelling 68
Don’t forget - the garden 71

Products and services
building services and renewables 75
building with biomass 75

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