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Timelapse captures groundworks and foundations in the blink of an eye
In feverish anticipation of our sustainable Baufritz house finally ‘arriving’ from Germany on Tuesday next week, we’ve put together this time lapse film of the past three months on site. You can watch the groundworks and foundations for our two storey eco home and guest accommodation being laid in just 2 minutes, at 24 frames […]
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How eco can you go? The house becomes one with the land
It’s just one week now until the Baufritz construction team start assembling our eagerly anticipated low carbon timber framed house and guest accommodation here in Lewes. The Sky House Sussex site was humming with activity today as the finishing touches to the slab (damp coursing and extra thick ground level insulation) were made by Joe […]
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Nearly ready for D-Day: Grand Designs eat your heart out
St. George’s Day 2014 and the bluebells are blooming. It is extraordinary to think we are now less than two weeks from seeing our eco house and guest accommodation assembled on site over a matter of days. This has been four years in the making! We first saw the plot back in 2010 since when […]
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Ground works can’t be green: an inconvenient truth?
This phase of the project prompted an uncomfortable question: can ground works ever be green? At first glance, the answer would seem to be a resounding ‘no’. But in this case, will the end result justify the means? This is the 13 tonne baby that arrived in Lewes recently to start excavation. Standing like a great […]