Taking place less than a mile away from our project site is this year’s Ecobuild exhibition - http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/. We took a break from our busy schedule of knocking walls down yesterday to have a look at the latest in green construction technologies.

It’s lucky that it goes on for 3 days - you’d need that long to visit only half of the stands and seminars at the exhibition. There was an excellent presentation on passivhaus principles by Paul Smyth from Inbuilt and on an almost-passivhaus retrofit by Andy Simmonds. His project is definitely worth a look - http://www.simmondsmills.com/project.php?id=31 - only falling down on achieving passivhaus certification through the airtightness test, our looming nemesis…

Other highlights were the huge living wall installation, the plethora of timber frame building providers and the installer programme.

If you are anywhere near West London and have a spare few hours (or days), you should definitely make a visit. And just in case you’re wondering, it’s free to get in.