Archive for February, 2009
Bere Admin February 3rd, 2009
Planning permission was granted on January 15th for our Camden Passivhaus. The structure is being pre-fabricated in Austria and the Austrians will fit the windows, the electrics, the plumbing and all the finishes to achieve the highest quality of workmanship in the shortest time possible.
Knowledge Transfer and Training for Passivhais Skills
Cllr Alexis Rowell of Camden Council (www.ecocouncillor.org.uk) will organize a team of councillors, planning and sustainability officers to monitor progress of the construction and learn from the techniques brought over from Austria in order to help Camden achieve his vision of incorporating Passivhaus requirements into the Camden’s Local Development Framework. A number of learning workshops are planned during the process of the build, in order to help UK partners and policy makers to understand how to attain the standards that we need in the UK to achieve the most energy efficient house design concept in the world today. Continue Reading »
Bere Admin February 3rd, 2009
London Transport at a standstill, everyone stays at home, Doublegood Windows maintain their delivery schedule!
Astrid Zala nearly flipped over backwards (twice) when, in spite of the heaviest snowfall in 18 years which knocked out the entire London Transport system, and stopped postal and courier deliveries across the capital all day on Monday, two cheerful men turned up on Monday morning with a delivery of her Doublegood windows!
Astrid commented that when Dan Gibbons told her that Doublegood Windows would not be beaten by any weather condition, she had not realized at the time that this is what he meant!
