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News Release from: Centre for Alternative Technology
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2003
CAT Celebrates Architecture Week
The Centre for Alternative Technology is offering a Solar House course and tours of the site's award-winning AtEIC Building.
The Centre for Alternative Technology is offering a Solar House course and tours of the site's award-winning AtEIC Building The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) marks this year's Architecture Week with a 4-day design course, "The Solar House: Low Impact Housing" as well as free guided tours of the site's innovative building, the "Autonomous Environmental Information Centre" (AtEIC) Architecture Week - between Friday, 20th June until Sunday, 29th June - showcases hundreds of events throughout the country with the aim of making us think about 'The Way We Live.' Half-hour guided tours of CAT's AtEIC building, explaining the building's design approach and materials, will take place at 2pm on Thursday and Friday, 26th and 27th June
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The award-winning AtEIC is a largely self-sufficient building which provides its own heating, water and sewage treatment.
Its sustainable features include limecrete foundations; locally sourced and sustainably managed timber; structural rammed earth, a pioneering use of low-grade sheep's wool for cavity insulation and a whole host of other technologies at the forefront of ecological design and construction.
CAT's Solar House course runs between the 23rd and 27th June.
The course covers passive solar design, solar water heating and integrated photovoltaic systems, as well as looking at energy and water conservation methods and eco building materials.
The eight-acre visitor site at CAT, as well as demonstrating a wide range of sustainable and appropriate technologies, is an evolving showcase for green building designs and techniques.
Architecture Week in Wales is coordinated by the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) - the Wales region of the RIBA.
They can be contacted on 0292087 4753 or www.architecture-wales.com For further information on the AtEIC guided tours, call 01654 705989 or email info@cat.org.uk.
These are free tours; normal admission charges to CAT apply.
To book a place on the Solar House course call on 01654 705981 or email courses@cat.org.uk.
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