Rustenburgstraat is a development of 89 homes for a social housing provider 'Trudo' in Eindhoven/ The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Built with pre-assembled EcoCocon straw wall system 🌾 This is how to normalise construction with biobased materials

Anybody in the Irish political class listening...? This looks great! Let's get cracking with new solutions! #SpeirGorm

Rustenburgstraat is a development of 89 homes for a social housing provider 'Trudo' in Eindhoven/ The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Built with pre-assembled EcoCocon straw wall system 🌾 This is how to normalise construction with biobased materials

What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels? This ad keeps making me chuckle. Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.

gorgeous little passivhaus + mass timber primary school in vorarlberg by querformat check out that atrium www.nextroom.at/building.php...

as requested by absolutely nobody, I am going to live blog the launch of the Principles for Responsible Timber Construction at the Buildings and Cooling Pavilion inside the Blue Zone at COP30, Belem, Brazil.

Made the most of Passivhaus Open Days and visited Malvern Passivhaus today. High performance timber frame prefab and 0.13ACH blower door test result - impressive work by Forest of Dean based Passiframe. #PHopendays #PHopendays2025

This is my jam

Good morning blue sky

It was a full house! Thank you everyone who visited us today. Great to see so many people interested in healthy, comfortable, high performance buildings built with natural materials. #passivhaus #phopendays #phopendays2025

Beautiful sunny day for a passivhaus open day at Old Holloway ☀️

Just a video of a 155.000m2 logistics center being insulated with ecococon #strawhouse modules at the moment. youtu.be/VQdE5RFsChs?...

missing middle multifamily housing built to passivhaus w/ prefab straw exterior panels construction cost of $120/sf heating costs @ $0.25/kwh work out to $12/month. low-carb passivhaus FTW jfc. that's incredible.

More meetings should be done on conference bikes

Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight? Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services. Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN

😲 SHOCK HORROR - EV battery health at 97% after 100000km (don't believe the naysayers)

Great working on this with @alisonkilling.bsky.social, Chris Campbell, @peter.andringa.me, @ian-bott.bsky.social, @sdbernard.bsky.social and @raydouglas.bsky.social. Come for the reporting, stay for the largest map we‘ve ever built...

Seems counterintuitive...energy efficient homes result in lower energy bills, so...what am I missing? 🤔

Sweet little sketch of a book. Thanks @ecominimalnick.bsky.social 😉

It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.

The future of construction is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. Landuse discussions & events need to include architects and engineers, it is not simply a question of where we build, but how we build. 🌱🌳🌲

A fascinating glimpse into the construction of one of the largest biobased buildings in Europe: Bestseller in Lelystad 🇳🇱 Mainly a combination of CLT/ glulam and EcoCocon straw walls 🌱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQdE...

Be more Denmark 🇩🇰 'Since 2023, every new building needs a whole life cycle assessment. There is a carbon cap on larger projects, and this is set to tighten and widen this year.'

Private Eye.

A new study concludes that the construction industry alone will blow through the carbon budget ceilings even if every other source of emissions were reduced to zero. " If current trends continue, the sector can exceed the 2°C per annum carbon budget earliest by 2040.”

Good episode, it's always worth listening to what @estresidder.bsky.social has to say

Awaab's law is a much-welcomed change to our social housing market, and no doubt it will save thousands of lives. But more could be done. Like investing in Passivhaus (passive housing), updating building regulations and allowing tenants to choose alternative council housing options.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Constructing buildings in wet climates under cover makes an awful lot of sense, particularly when building with timber.

Do it

Farage: epic grifter

Site visit for another @ecococon.bsky.social straw panel project in the local area. Nice to be able to cycle there.

Passed the #LifeInTheUK test today ✅ The most fun question was about King Charles II who hid in an oak tree 🤴🌳 Language test next...

The back streets of Venice. 😐😮

Good morning blue sky ☀️

You don't want to miss this

Staying in a holiday cottage in Wales. I’ve almost forgotten what condensation looks like 💦 This just never happens in a passivhaus

This would be a regressive step. Shows a poverty of thinking inside No10 Why? 🧵🧵 1. There are ways of bringing bills down and keeping costs lower whilst continuing to build out clean power. 2. The problems the renewables build out addresses haven't gone away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some places still available for passivhaus open day at Old Holloway on 8th November Book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...

Waiting for all the jokes

one of the things i am really looking forward too with the social housing developer is opportunities for educating the public - and specifically city and state leaders - on the incredible benefits & co-benefits of passivhaus - through events like @ipha.bsky.social's open days

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Grim day for solar PV today, not even a single kWh produced from a 6.4kWp system. Can’t complain though as this year’s been by far the best for solar production for years. 💡🔌

Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

Some reasons to be cheerful

…or colonialism, the origins of inequality, class system, Bloody Sunday, miners strikes and unions, Brit pop and the rave scene, competitive baking and veg growing, …I could go on

Just doing mock ‘Life in the UK’ tests for UK citizenship and I’m shocked by the absence of questions about tea, biscuits and weather.

One for those who say Ukraine should draw a line and give up the occupied territories Unthinkable to any sane person