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News Release from: Centre for Alternative Technology | Subject: Eco-Building Tour at CAT
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Team on 14 June 2006
Specialist Eco-Building Tour at CAT
Centre for Alternative Technology to offer guided tour of its green buildings as part of Architecture Week.
Centre for Alternative Technology to offer guided tour of its green buildings as part of Architecture Week Visitors to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) on Friday 23rd June will have the opportunity to join CAT's environmental building consultant for a specialist guided tour of the Centre's innovative ecological buildings
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The eight-acre visitor site in mid-Wales, as well as demonstrating a wide range of sustainable and appropriate technologies, is an evolving showcase for green building designs and techniques.
Examples on display range from traditional slate and timber frames, to strawbale and rammed earth constructions and their integrated renewable energy and rainwater collection systems.
The tour will include a visit to the AtEIC (Autonomous Environmental Information Centre) building, Britain's greenest public building, and a peek through to the building site of CAT's new £6.1million state-of-the-art WISE (Wales Institute for Sustainable Education) building, intended to showcase the very latest thinking in environmentally-conscious design.
Other highlights on the tour include a newly refurbished eco showhome in Britain's most insulated building, a theatre constructed from straw bales, and various examples of self-build techniques.
The special guided tour takes place from 11am till 1pm and is free to all visitors once normal admission is paid.
CAT is open from 10am to 6pm.
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 029 20 87475 or by email at: rsaw@inst.riba.org.
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