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News Release from: Ecos Trust | Subject: Prefabricated house
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 June 2008
Glastonbury gets a lesson in low cost,
low carbon
Ecos Trust has erected a two-storey prefabricated house, nicknamed the 'FAB House', at Glastonbury Festival to demonstrate low impact and low cost sustainable buildings, using local materials.
The building is an example of an affordable, sustainable house, which can be completed by self-builders using local materials to create a very low cost and low impact home The building has straw bale walls with lime render as well as cob blocks rendered with the famous Glastonbury Mud
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 20 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Charles Couzens Director of Ecos Trust said: "It is particularly appropriate that we have the FAB House at this year's festival with Michael Eavis's support for affordable housing.
We are aware from a survey led by the Chartered Institute of Housing that festival goers show marked interest in the issue of low cost, low carbon homes so we are really looking forward to welcoming visitors to Glastonbury to our FAB House.
The FAB House forms two, two-bed, semi-detached homes and would be an ideal starter home for a young couple.
The timber from the frame was made in a local framing yard from Douglas Fir and Sweet Chestnut grown on the Longleat Estate, less than ten miles away from the Festival.
Experts will be on hand at the FAB House to talk to visitors interested in self-build projects and will be carrying out ongoing demonstrations covering a wide range of sustainable building methods.
The project is being sponsored by the Arcadia Housing Group, which includes local housing association Knightstone.
Mike Day, Director of Development and Home Ownership, at Arcadia Housing, said: "As one of the largest providers of affordable housing in the South West with 11,000 homes in management and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability over many years, we are delighted to be supporting this project at the Glastonbury Festival with the Ecos Trust.".
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