This project encourages and supports community in relearning how to work, rest and play together, co-operatively with nature, for the great good.
Orchard Barn Environmental Education Community Interest Company (OBee CIC) Registration Number 6379982 - Wildfire Designs 2007 - Photographs by Richard Smithson
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Rediscovering the Vernacular
Traditional Skills and Materials in the C21st
To book your place, please phone Sarah Partridge on 01473-658193/077660-54042 or email sarah@orchardbarn.org.uk
9.30am - 4pm Thursday 29th April 2010
At Haughley Park Barn, Stowmarket IP14 3JY
In the fight against global warming the building industry is under increasing pressure to deliver carbon free buildings. Much of the emphasis is placed on incorporating renewable energy and increasingly high specifications for insulation into the design of new buildings. Yet despite this oft-heard mantra of ‘building sustainability’, most new builds are still constructed from intrinsically unsustainable materials.
The vast majority of our new builds are built using materials that produce high, sometimes massively high, levels of CO2 emissions during their production, and involving many road, rail and sea miles. Some research is being carried out to develop new building materials with a lower carbon footprint but generally the industry is ignoring existing sustainable and relatively local resources.
It is only in the last 100 years that we have totally abandoned the vernacular methods of building. Perhaps it is time to look again at traditional materials and skills and see what contribution they can make to a sustainable future. Local natural materials can be produced and delivered on site with huge savings on CO2 emissions over conventional materials. Today’s event looks at the work that is being carried out in our region to reconsider and revive the vernacular tradition in the C21st and will also consider how natural materials can be employed in less familiar more industrialised forms.
IHBC CPD certificates will be issued on the day.Tickets include lunch
£95 (inc VAT) per place £65 (inc vat) IHBC Member per place
This event is p resented by Institute of Historic Building Conservation (East Anglia Branch), St Edmundsbury Borough Council and OBee Community Interest Company
