CAfS - Cumbria Action for Sustainability

CAfS
Cumbria Action for Sustainability

The Office, Mardale Road, Penrith, CA11 9EH
01768 210276

Craftsmen working with green oak frames

formerly Eden Local Agenda 21

Cumbria Green Build Fortnight


	Cumbria Green Build Fortnight?

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Visitors keep on telling us that the strength of Cumbria Green Build Fortnight is the opportunity to attend events and see venues first hand. That's why we are determined to see Cumbria Green Build Fortnight grow bigger, better and more popular every year. Roll on 2008.

Meanwhile, the local case studies that follow are taken from venues, products suppliers, and professional experts who have participated in Cumbria Green Build Fortnight.

These examples compliment Cumbria Green Build Fortnight, providing information on:

	sustainable construction
	maintenance or repair of buildings

as well as on associated themes, such as:

renewable energy	preventing waste & pollution
transport & fuels	safeguarding biodiversity & the natural environment

Click on the links on the left to learn more about some of Cumbria Green Build Fortnight's amazing venues, specialists and suppliers ...

ad.hoc associates	Architecture & sustainability
Beck Mickle Hydro Ltd	Micro hydro-electric power system
Building with clay & lime	Earth building techniques gathering momentum
CEEAC	Energy Efficiency Advice for Cumbrian householders
Cockermouth School Eco Centre	Sustainable design and construction creating an inspiring learning space.
CREA Building	Low Carbon offices and business units
Cumbria Woodlands	Wood fuel for heating
Dalefoot Composts	Lakeland Gold - quality composts from local materials
Danny Frost	Maker of fine furniture & timber sales
Derwentwater Youth Hostel	Hydro Electric Power from the Hostel's waterfall
Eco-op	Richard Henry – Reed Beds
Eden Architecture	Designing sustainable buildings - cob and clay a speciality.
Eden Rivers Trust	Sustainable River Management covering a large part of Cumbria
Environment Agency HQ	Sustainable Office Design
Footprint Project	Inspiring National Trust earth building
Fuels & Transport	Biofuels from crops and used vegetable oil. Energy efficient car from Honda
Geowarmth Ltd	Ground Source Heat Pumps
Hespin Wood	Electricity generation from landfill site gases
Homecall Heating Ltd	Solar - thermal hot water heating installer
JS Engineering Design Ltd	Sustainable structural engineering design
Lakeland Oak	Oak frames for traditional and contemporary green oak buildings
Little Salkeld Watermill	Sustainable production of high quality organic flours
O’Neil and Petrie	Sustainable architecture
Second Nature (UK) Ltd	Highly effective thermal and acoustic insulation made with local sheep's wool
Solar thermal hot water	Highly successful domestic system near Penrith
Sundog Energy UK Ltd	Generating electricity from sunlight and small scale wind turbines
Turbine Services Ltd	Generating electricity from water and small-scale wind power
Wall Transform Ltd	Award winning speciality renders and plasters for insulating internal and external walls