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ADVERTISEMENT NEW SHOWROOM GRAND OPENING 10 th & 11 th FEBRUARY 2017 Leading structural and architectural glass designers and suppliers Vision Design Projects Ltd are proud to announce the opening of their brand new showroom in Morden Surrey. Just 5 minutes from the Northern Line Underground Station and 15 minutes from the M25. Featuring a large selection of design led, and innovative glass products, the showroom is open to Architects, designers, developers and homeowners alike. Please feel free to visit, have a drink and refreshments whilst viewing the range of architectural glass solutions on display. With over 25 years of architectural and structural glass expertise, Vision Design Projects supply a wide range of bespoke architectural glass solutions to the residential and commercial architectural sectors. The company has earned an excellent reputation for delivering quality glass designs to projects across London and the South of England. Central in the showroom is the Glas Marte (GM) ‘Frameless’ Glass Railing system. The stunning and ingeniously simple railing system offers fl exible design solutions, with the assurance that testing has been proven in compliance with the (ABP) TRAV General Test Certifi cate. The attractive Origin Bi-Fold Door system is on display in two configurations, the stunningly designed Bi-Fold Doors open up rooms and merge the inside with the outside to form wonderful open spaces full of fresh air and unrestricted views. Alongside the Origin display is the minimal frame ORAMA sliding door system with its 25mm vertical profi le design, made from insulated aluminium profi les. Clean lines, maximum functionality and optimal vistas, combined with a silent sliding system are just some of the features of the ORAMA system. Vision Design Projects SURREY’S LEADING STRUCTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS DESIGNERS AND SUPPLIERS GRAND OPENING 10 th & 11 th February 2017 Complementary Refreshments Our brand new showroom features many elegant architectural glass solutions from UK and Europe’s leading brands GM Railing | GM Cabinmart | GM Pavilion360 | Orama Minimal Frame Sliding Doors | Origin Bi-Fold Doors – Windows – Blinds Vision Design Projects Limited Telephone 020 8335 0290 | Address 220 Garth Road, Morden, Surrey, SM4 4NL Email info@visiondesignprojects.com | Website www.visiondesignprojects.com in partnership with Architectural Glass & Glass Systems Sarnafil single ply roofing
Eco Redefined Christopher Day explains what to look out for when it comes to choosing an old building to eco-upgrade in an extract from The Eco-Home Design Guide What is an eco-home? What do you need to know to create one? What is an eco-home? If you more or less know, and more or less know how to create one, you don’t need to read on. Or perhaps you do. There may be things you haven’t thought about, or aspects of things that you haven’t considered in depth or didn’t know. Some might even be vital issues for how your house performs and lasts, and how it is to live in – and how long you live. Everybody more or less knows what an eco-home is, but as there’s no official definition, nobody actually knows. Is it necessarily a house? Can it be a caravan, yurt or even a high-rise apartment? Is it a zero-carbon – or, better, a carbon-negative house? Would that include a wholly uninsulated house connected to a photovotaic farm? Or is it a house so nature-friendly that it’s full of wasps, rats and (suspiciouly ominous) mushrooms? Or should it be so zeroimpact that living in it means dressing for outdoor temperatures? Everybody knows it doesn’t mean those sorts of things. It’s safer, therefore, to focus on what everybody more or less knows: that it’s something to do with supporting ecological stability. What is ecological stability, though? Climate stability is an absolutely essential part of this, but only a part. Preserving or recycling key resources (e.g. water, nutrients, perhaps manufacturing feedstocks) is comparably important, although this hasn’t yet reached a tipping-point crisis. So is the maintenance of a self-regulating ecology. This is mostly about reducing pollution, preserving biodiversity and, indirectly but crucially, food security. Common to all these, however, is living in harmony with nature. But can we do this if we live in town? As most of us do, for life to survive on our planet, this is absolutely essential: living in harmony with nature doesn’t mean living in nature. Historically, however, the eco-architecture movement didn’t start very harmoniously. There were those who focused on minimising energy use. Hermetically sealed buildings with tiny windows appealed to them. Others were principally concerned with occupant health. They liked air-permeable buildings, lots of fresh air and solely natural materials. Others again sought hi-tech solutions to everything. Some focused on autonomous houses and self-sufficient lifestyles; others, on social issues – even to the point of collectivism. And everybody thought ‘ecology’ meant they couldn’t use their favourite materials or do anything artistic. Nobody ever considered the risk of dying from heatstroke, at least not in Britain: at that time, heat retention (for resource preservation) seemed the issue, not cooling (for survival). Climate change wasn’t a concern; oil depletion (and related price rise) was. Also, although some thought meditation could transcend ecological disaster as this is ‘merely’ material, nobody discussed the spiritual dimension of sustainability. Fortunately, those days are behind us – but their echoes still remain. Few seem to realise that harmony with nature means embracing and synthesising all of this. If we omit the material concerns, things don’t work. If we omit the aesthetic, we only serve the material side of nature and humanity. The climate crisis demonstrates this. If material solutions don’t work, human – and probably all – life won’t last. But if concentration on practical aspects ignores soul and spirit issues, life won’t be worth living – and (according to statistics) is likely to be shorter. Does this make what ‘everybody more or less knows’ unduly complicated? It shouldn’t. It just means that there are many more issues than energy conservation to attend to. Choosing an old building to eco-upgrade. There are additional considerations when choosing an old building to ecorenovate. Any existing building’s location, neighbouring buildings and orientation are fixed. Old buildings’ construction is rarely in a perfect condition, may have a limited life and is often different from what we would choose (insulation, for instance, is rare – and there may be no room to add it). As all this limits options for eco-improvements, you need to know what you can and can’t do. Before you buy a property, it’s important to be able to distinguish buildings that are easy to eco-improve from those that aren’t, and faults that are easy to remedy from those that mean ‘don’t buy’. Old buildings basics. Old buildings may look similar to new ones, but they’re different in many small but significant ways. How old is ‘old’? Aesthetically, ‘old’ usually means pre- 1850. In constructional terms, it’s pre-1920. For thermal performance, however, it’s virtually everything before 2006. Wooden buildings, being vulnerable to fire, rot and insects, tended not to last as long as masonry ones. Those that still survive, however, are usually dry because wood buffers humidity. They’re also often warm because, as insulation is easy to insert in the gaps between the structural framing members, this has often already been done. In Britain, most pre-twentieth-century buildings are masonry. Unlike modern buildings, which have concrete foundations, these are built on brick or stone footings; nor did they use cement, but lime. Consequently, they’re somewhat flexible. New or old, all buildings move with changing temperatures. Ground also 67 wealdentimes.co.uk
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