Howden Hall Road – a timber retrofit

An ingenious domestic retrofit that shows how a common UK housing type can be upgraded using timber.

Doubling the useable space while upgrading the building fabric – find out how the house on Howden Hall Road achieved this.

Join Robert Hairstans (Director of the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology at New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering), architect Grigor Mitchell and Matt Stevenson (Ecosystems Technologies) and learn how they transformed a 1950s bungalow in Edinburgh into a high-performing contemporary home. This free webinar which show how a very common UK building type – one that can be found in any UK town – can be updated using timber.

The project also uses a multiplicity of different construction methods and different types of timber – some of them homegrown and some of them reclaimed. It’s a project that demonstrates ingenuity and optimising the budget while fulfilling ambitious building fabric upgrades.

Reserve your place on this free lunchtime webinar now.

When: Wednesday 21 January 13.00-14.00

Where: Online via Zoom

Presenters: Robert Hairstans (Centre for Advanced Timber Technology), architect Grigor Mitchell and Matt Stevenson (Ecosystems Technologies).

This event is free to attend. Please login or create an account to register. Make sure you complete your registration by checking out using the shopping trolley in the top right.