106 days ago by Mark Brinkley

Monday and Tuesday this week saw me at the 2nd UK Passivhaus Conference at the Barbican Centre in London. There were around 250 attendees consisting of a fair smattering of old AECB-heads, a fair few BRE types, a sprinkling of academics and a good gaggle of "people who had come to learn." Consequent ...

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184 days ago by Mark Brinkley

Back in the 1980s when I was working as a general builder, if we had a re-roofing job we always used a product called Zylex, a bitumen roofing felt produced by Ruberoid. It was heavy, came in 16m rolls and above all it was cheap. I can remember the first time I ever saw Tyvek which was said to be th ...

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