Viking Energy Network Jarrow
The newly opened Viking Energy Network in Jarrow is drawing heat from the River Tyne and supplying low carbon energy to buildings across the town. Every now and again you...
Category: Technology + Construction
In the Driver’s Seat
Why did taking the Passivhaus training course remind me of my driving test thirty years ago? I passed my driving test in 1990 and I can’t over emphasise the feeling...
Community Scale Retrofit in County Durham
The Craghead retrofit project has delivered energy efficiency improvements across a whole community, demonstrating how retrofit can be delivered at scale. To meet our climate change ambitions, the UK must...
Tales from the Joist End
Retrofit projects require careful detailing to secure the necessary energy efficiency improvements without compromising the building fabric. In the second of our articles on retrofit, we’re going to take a...
5 Barriers to Retrofit
In the first of a new series on Retrofit, we look at the main barriers to making serious energy efficiency improvements to our existing housing stock. The collapse of coal and...
Can the Tesla Powerwall Revolutionise Renewables?
I visit the region’s first Tesla Powerwall installation to see how this new battery technology is revolutionising renewables. The last 15 years have seen a rapid expansion in the roll...
Cundall One Planet Living
Newcastle-based engineering consultancy Cundall demonstrates its commitment to sustainability with an ambitious target of One Planet Living. A striking newspaper headline in December caught my attention. It suggested that 2016...
A Tale of Two Walls : Rammed Earth Construction in the North East
Two rammed earth walls built in the North East offer a modern low carbon interpretation of an ancient technology. People have been constructing rammed earth walls for over 2,000 years....
Adam Vaughan
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Mark Siddall
