HOW TO BUILD AN ECO-COTTAGE

Talk: Wednesday 29 March, 18.00, £6/4.50

Michael Andrews is a wildlife TV producer and environmental author who built his own energy-neutral eco-cottage in Cornwall. His unusual building, sited in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, was rebuilt from an existing corrugated iron chalet, and Michael researched and developed all the technical details of the design himself.

Michael will talk through some of the difficulties he encountered and the lessons he learnt, from planning consent to electricity export, from breathing walls to alternative eco-friendly materials, as well as explaining how he achieved energyneutrality with this project. He will also explain how his ideas moved on from rebuilding another conventional cottage 38 years ago.

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