Presentations' slides from the Homebuilding & Renovating Show
The Green Home Guide
Creating a low-energy, eco-friendly home starts with good design. We reveal the secrets to minimising heat loss and overheating by working with your design team from the start of the project. Allan gives an insider’s guide to the key principles and how to ensure your home performs well.
How to Design an Amazing Home
Every good home starts with good design. Be inspired by this guide to how to make your home truly amazing. Our expert designer reveals the must-have features to make your home special – both to look at and to live in.
Self Build: The Most Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Forewarned is forearmed! Learn how to keep your homebuilding project firmly on the rails by avoiding the most common mistakes and disputes when buying property, dealing with neighbours, designers, builders and suppliers, plus a guide on to how best to resolve difficulties if they do arise.
Beginners’ Guide To Building A Low-Energy Home
The ‘fabric first’ approach to low energy home design and renovation explained. Understand the best ways to optimise insulation values, the importance of balancing airtightness, ventilation, thermal mass and solar gain, plus how to choose the right heating system including renewable energy options for heat and power.
Home Design: A Step-By-Step Guide To Designing Your Dream Home
The design process explained, from concept sketches to planning drawings, from building regulations to detailed drawing packages. Learn how to make sure your home design meets your aspirations, ambitions, budget, and makes the very most of its location, by formulating a clear design brief and finding and appointing the right architectural designer.
House Construction Explained
This concise overview of how a house is built, from site clearance through to snagging will help anyone thinking of building their own home understand what’s happening – or should be happening – on site at each stage. It will help understand the difference between the construction systems, what the traditional topping out ceremony is all about and much more.
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