Apologies for the long break in posts. Early this year I started an on-line certificate course "Design for Sustainability" bein...

With the current hiatus in finishing the build, (is a house ever finished?), I can now start considering the immediate problem of stabili...

In my previous post I noted that the summer temperatures inside the house were higher than I expected from my research and detailed in a ...

A key feature of the design of this house, right from the start, was that it was to be earth sheltered across the whole roof by about at l...

As detailed in my previous post the current solution built into the house to provide passive north facing ventilation is not fit for purpos...