Natural Materials | ACAN | Prefabricated Building with Natural Materials

Date recorded - 13th May 2024

The ACAN Natural Materials Group is delighted to welcome Craig White, Barbara Jones and Will Kirkman, experts in building with natural materials. They discuss the prefabricated systems that they work with, with examples from across the UK and Europe. The presentations are followed by a live Q&A.

🌱Craig White: Craig is CEO at Agile Property and Homes. Agile delivers low-carbon, affordable homes to those in housing need using low-carbon, Modern Methods of Construction, built and scaled at pace. Agile is helping to solve the housing crisis, using a land-supply that is new, free & hidden in plain sight. The climate emergency drives Agile’s design and development of its products and services, to ensure that operational energy and embodied carbon is minimised and that only natural and renewable, carbon capturing materials are used in the fabric of its build systems.

🌱 Barbara Jones: Barbara is the founder of the School of Natural Building, and the UK’s preeminent straw-bale building authority. She has decades of experience with straw bale building, clay and lime plastering, building physics and leading work on building sites across the UK and Europe. Barbara set up Straw Works, now Wellspring Architecture, which is a bespoke design company specialising in buildings made of straw and other healthy natural materials. Barbara is now a technical consultant at EcoCocon, an innovative wall system making the best of natural materials while ensuring healthy, comfortable, and energy-efficient living at the same time.

🌱 Will Kirkman: Will is the managing director of Ecomerchant, a business specialised in sustainable and natural building materials for the building trade and consumers. He recently set up We Build Eco a building company producing energy-efficient building kits from any design with a fast and precise process. Their kits are easy to assemble, and the buildings are natural, healthy and sustainable.

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