Eco Building
About Eco Building services available
There are an ever increasining amount of companies dedicated to reducing CO2 emissions and conserving water and other dwindling resources for homes and businesses.
Locally sourced timber is often used for building, reducing the transportation distances and emmissions. For more information visit Local Timber Suppliers Guide.
Here are a few of the type of new build services available:
- Passive solar building design
- Solar panels
- Solar heating panels
- Sun tunnels
- Wind energy
- Underfloor heating
- Straw-bale construction
- Eco lofts
- Eco roof slates
- Sheep wool insulation
- Eco building for new builds
- Eco building for extensions
- Solar Energy Source Heat Pump
- Efficient boilers
- Solar cylinders
- Biomass boilers
- Ground source heat pumps
- Air source heat pumps
- Water conservation
- Rainwater harvesters
- Grey water recycling
- Offset of CO2 emissions produced on project
Solar Trade Association
Some Eco Building Companies are members of The Solar Trade Association (STA) is a company limited by guarantee, having been formed in 1978 to serve as a focal point for organisations with business interests in the Solar Energy industry.
Those interests cover thermal applications, such as the production of domestic or industrial hot water or the heating of swimming pools.
