Hoots Mon and welcome to all our McBlogworms, Well I did say there'd be more aboot our Scottish adventure this week ... so here it is, the noo.
Firstly ... What a fantastic project the Ravenscraig BRE Innovation Park is !!
It's located on the Airdrie road out of Motherwell, go towards Motherwell College and keep going, past the new Leisure Centre and it's on your right hand side off the roundabout. There is a postcode for the place for your Sat Nav but forget it, it doesnae work. According to mine you're somewhere in a field ?? which to be fair, at the moment, is actually a pretty accurate description.
The pics are: from the top, the building as we arrived, part way through our install, and just aboot finished. The guys on site were up against it even when we left to get if finished on time, so at the moment I don't have any completion pics but I'll post some when we get them.
The concept of the park is to have one central showcase for all the eco and green building technologies available in one place applied to various different types of house building methods and styles. This can then be used by builders and the public alike to see just exactly what's out there in terms of real, meaningful green products and ideas with which to equip your life and home.
While most of the nine buildings planned are based on 'new build' principles for future housing developments, there is one house planned which is to be built EXACTLY as it was built in the 60's .... nice one, getting that past the planners lads! ... to show just what is possible to upgrade older housing to more eco status and improved energy effeciency.
That, in itself, has to be a fabulous idea to give the many thousands of properties of that sort of age a chance to be run more economically.
I could rant on aboot Ravenscraig all day but you'd only get fed up reading it, suffice it to say go on their website, have a look and follow the parks development over the next year or so, it's well worth watching for inspiration for ideas for your own circumstances.... I will ... and I'm planning a specific trip back up there once it's all done for inspiration for my self and how we can develop our business.
I'll finish with thanks to all the folk we met up there and their help while we were doing our bit... thanks chaps !!.... and hope it's not too long before we're back in Scotland again. Great place, great scenery, great people and a fantastic forward thinking attitude to environmental issues and ideas.
Our Scottish correspondant .... Mc Jules, signing off.
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