House Planning Help
Researching what homes we should be building in the 21st Century. Radio presenter turned podcaster Ben Adam-Smith is interviewing experts from the world of construction. Ben then intends to build or retrofit his own eco house before August 2016. Build a Better Home!
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HPH010 : Can You Damage an Old House When Making it Energy Efficient? - with Roger Hunt
Roger Hunt explains how to make a period property energy ...
Roger Hunt explains how to make a period property energy efficient without damaging the building or creating problems for yourself in the future. Also House Planning Help gets its first guest blogger, Paul Mallion from Conker Conservation.
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HPH009 : Retrofitting a Victorian House to Passivhaus Standard #2 - with Alex Rice from Green Tomato Energy
Alex Rice, Senior Engineer at Green Tomato Energy, explains that ...
Alex Rice, Senior Engineer at Green Tomato Energy, explains that there are few technical challenges that remain when retrofitting a period home into a low energy building and it is a case of how you apply those solutions to the given building.
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HPH008 : Retrofitting a Victorian House to Passivhaus Standard #1 - with Tom Pakenham from Green Tomato Energy
Tom Pakenham from Green Tomato Energy describes the practical challenges ...
Tom Pakenham from Green Tomato Energy describes the practical challenges of making a Victorian house energy efficient. Plus how passive house principles helped a Norwegian explorer in the 1890s.
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HPH007 : A Client's Perspective of Building an Eco House - with Tahir Sharif
Tahir Sharif talks about how he built up his knowledge ...
Tahir Sharif talks about how he built up his knowledge in order to commission an energy efficient home, while Ben discovers some great thinking from the Home World Exhibition of 1981.
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HPH006 : How to Save Money When Buying Land
Ted Stevens, Chairman of the National Self Build Association in ...
Ted Stevens, Chairman of the National Self Build Association in the UK, gives his advice on how to find a good plot of land at a reasonable price. Plus, why Almere in Holland could be a blueprint for other large scale self build developments across...
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HPH005 : The Passivhaus Standard #3 Retrofitting to Passivhaus (Passive House)
Adam Dadeby from Passivhaus Homes talks about some of the ...
Adam Dadeby from Passivhaus Homes talks about some of the challenges he faced when retrofitting his own home to the Passivhaus standard. He's also co-author of a new book called The Passivhaus Handbook.
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HPH004 : The Passivhaus Standard #2 Dr Wolfgang Feist (Passive House)
Dr Wolfgang Feist describes how better energy efficiency opens a ...
Dr Wolfgang Feist describes how better energy efficiency opens a path to making us less dependent on fossil fuels and we have that knowledge now.
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HPH003 : The Passivhaus Standard #1 A Passivhaus Builder's Story (Passive House)
Pat Wilkinson from Touchwood Homes reveals why he decided to ...
Pat Wilkinson from Touchwood Homes reveals why he decided to build to the Passivhaus standard and there's a resource for young industry professionals who might just be completing their architecture degrees or building training etc.
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HPH002 : The House Design You Want And The Low Running Costs
Martin Evans from The Malthouse Consultancy talks about energy efficiency ...
Martin Evans from The Malthouse Consultancy talks about energy efficiency and Ben Adam-Smith sets up a consumer mastermind group on LinkedIn to collate the good and bad of house design.
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HPH001 : What Makes a Successful Builder of Traditional Homes?
Ben Adam-Smith explains his motivation for creating this podcast and ...
Ben Adam-Smith explains his motivation for creating this podcast and there's an interview with Simon Lewis, Managing Director of RW Armstrong, a residential builder in the South East of England.
