Energy Celebrity visits site!

The West-London low energy community was all-a-flutter recently at the visit of Professor David Mackay to our build. As well as being DECC’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Mackay also wrote the seminal work on addressing the UK’s energy conundrum - Sustainable Energy, without the hot air. A must read and free to download from his website.

Professor Mackay spent many hours visiting our site, another one of our (very similar) projects up the road and the windows workshop. As well as discussing a range of impressively technical (and sometimes frankly indecipherable) questions with our engineers, Professor Mackay also found time to query whether the insulation would be irresistible to rodents for nesting…let’s hope not!

It was most encouraging that someone with such influence over UK energy policy has the time and inclination to visit projects that are actively addressing low energy retrofits. Converting our solid-wall housing stock into buildings that will keep people warm without having to pour heat into them constantly (current practice) is a massive practical challenge, one that will need proven, practical know-how, so it’s just as well those responsible for deciding how we proceed are genuinely keen to harvest as much of it as they can.