Eco Foundations – Plynths and Screwpiles

When it comes to building a new house, foundation is probably the most difficult and eco-unfriendly element of your house. Still, it is so important that you simply cannot afford to get it wrong. Concrete slab foundation is certainly the most popular of all foundation types. From a perspective of an...

When Floorboards Go Onto the Wall

Although using floorboards to enhance the wall might sound like a crazy idea, here’s a proof that it actually looks great. I recently saw this flat near Beaminster, Dorset. Here’s the top floor bedroom. The floor is absolutely gorgeous. You won’t see any of those smelling dusting carpets in...

Things To Do With Bottles – Building

From an environmentalist’s point of view, each bottle is a small treasure. Be it a glass bottle or a PET bottle, you can recycle it or reuse it… the latter being much better. Let’s look at two interesting examples of how reused bottles can be used in building eco-friendly houses. The first...

Using Reclaimed Building Materials

The 3 Rs of green living – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle- can be easily applied to the building industry. While recycling still involves energy consumption, reuse does not. Reuse is much better because you take the material as it is and just stretch its work life. The majority of building materials take lots...

Competition: Free Energy Saving Light Bulbs

For your chance to grab seven free energy saving light bulbs, please enter the competition. You will be asked to answer a simple question about paper consumption. You won’t have to stretch too far for the answer (nudge, nudge). You will also be asked to accept the terms and conditions and… now...

Bacterial War on Kiln-baked Bricks

An architecture professor has launched bacterial war on the traditional kiln-baked bricks by coming up with an absolutely amazing idea – ecobrick. Although the bricks have been around for millennia, it rarely occurs to us that a brick is extremely eco-unfriendly. The whole brick-making industry makes...