Welcome to the Big Build Blog – 2009 edition!
Follow progress as we add three new homes and refit and refurbishing two other buildings that will play a key role for INSITE09 at BRE in June. Pictures are posted a week or so after being taken.
Enjoy the read, and remember to book your INSITE09 tickets to come along and see the completed buildings in June.
Words and pictures: Peter White at BRE. Photographs are copyright, and the comments here are my personal observations.
Update 20 MayA real hive of activity on site in the past couple of weeks - plenty of photos taken too but not enough time to load them all here. So, lets jump right up-to-date and I'll fill in the gaps later... If you've not alreay see them, read the earlier postings first. |
Week beginning 18 May:   |
| Above left: The hemp-built Renewable House is now complete, seen here in Sunday afternoon sunshine. Work begins to erect our vast exhibition marquee (centre), and the Willmott Dixon Community Healthcare campus now sports a new roof canopy, seen here from high up in the cherry picker. |
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| Over at the Prince's Foundation's Natural House (where the ground floor walls are complete, the floors in and part of the first floor walls are also built), two specially monogrammed Ziegel blocks arrived on Monday... and on Tuesday, after watching NBT's Wilf Jordan demonstrating the process... |
| Tuesday 19 May |
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...HRH The Prince of Wales laid one of the monogrammed blocks into the wall during a vist to see the work in progress on the house. See BRE Press Release for the full story. |
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