After what seems like an age of planning, modelling and jumping through bureaucratic hoops, the works have finally started. The scaffolding is going up at a crazy speed - if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed that 20 stone men could clamber up the side of a building like hyperactive monkeys. Once the scaffolding has been erected, the first step is to build the loft. It will be super-insulated (finer details of build-ups and materials to be supplied at a later date), almost completely airtight and covered in solar panels, but otherwise just like a normal loft.
And we’re off!