House Planning Help Podcast

David Snell, author of Building Your Own Home, shares advice on acquiring land, building up a skilled and reliable team, and keeping contracts simple. He is currently building his 14th house!

Direct download: HPH050.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:18am UTC

David Rudlin from Urbed explains what collective custom build is and why it would be beneficial to build more houses this way.

Direct download: HPH049.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:45am UTC

Sarah Lonsdale, an eco columnist for The Telegraph, shares a list of 30 home improvements she has made to reduce energy bills, and save energy and water. Ultimately Sarah would like to build a new home (such as a Huf Haus or Passivhaus) but in the meantime she explains the benefits of incremental upgrades.

Direct download: HPH048.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:01pm UTC

Ian McKay from BBM Sustainable Design shares how to find a property that will lend itself well to an eco retrofit.

He also contrasts two very different projects, the retrofit of a 1960s terraced house and the upgrade of a Victorian villa from the 1890s.

Direct download: HPH047.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:09pm UTC

Diana Woodward explains how her house was first modelled on a computer and then the 3D digital information was transformed into exact physical replicas. The components were fabricated out of WISA board on-site using a mobile manufacturing facility.

Direct download: HPH046.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:54am UTC

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