SELF BUILD PERIOD ECO-HOUSE CASE STUDY: SELF BUILD PERIOD ECO-HOUSE, SIMON THOMASTHE CHALLENGE CASE STUDY: SELF BUILD PERIOD ECO-HOUSE, SIMON THOMAS Right from the beginning, our technical drawing team was on hand to work with Simon and his structural designers. Their goal was to create a beautiful Edwardian house with the highest environmental standards – a period eco-house. The starting point was the house that existed on the site. Built in 1907, it had significant heat loss issues. The best way to address this was to insulate the brick fabric of the existing building externally and render over. This also meant that the house could be seamlessly integrated with the new-build, doubling the size of the original property. Building regulations required that window and door surr

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