Passivhaus featured on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 show Costing the Earth looks at new building materials for environmentally-friendly houses and asks where you should start if you want to build your own eco-home. Miranda also discovers the latest building materials and techniques such as Passivhaus, available to those embarking on 'grand design' style projects and finds out why the UK is lagging behind in the self-build sector compared to Germany and Austria.

The show features Passivhaus Trust chair Chris Herring, Authors of 'The Passivhaus Handbook' Janet Cotterell and Adam Dadeby and Chair fo the UK Passivhaus Conference 2012 Mark Gillot.

Listen to the programme on the bbc Radio 4 website here.

12th March 2013

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