UPDATE: The House that Berry Built

Back in May 2008 Berry Place supplied a scaled down model of an environmental house on behalf of Talkback Thames TV for Kevin McCloud, presenter of Grand Designs on Channel 4 to be shown at Grand Designs Live at the ExCel in London.

This model was made from a mixture of materials to suggest various construction methods to be used on the real house - known as 'The House That Kevin Built' - which McCloud built in just six days from recycled materials using traditional and cutting edge techniques. Over 5 million viewers a night saw the build. THTKB was Europe's first prefabricated building made entirely of organic, compostable material. It was also the UK's first A+ rated dwelling. 

The project has come a long way since Grand Designs Live 2008 with the widespread involvement of Brighton & Hove City Council, the Building Research Establishment, the construction industry's research & consultancy organisation, and the University of Brighton.

Brighton-based building contractors, The Mears Group have just completed Phase One of the rebuilding of The House That Kevin Built (THTKB) on the University of Brighton's Faculty of Art campus at Grand Parade. This time the construction process will be slowed down from 6 days to three months so that it can involve school children (primary & secondary), students and anybody else who wants to help. The University will also be holding presentations and workshops around the ideas associated with the project; ideas such as building with so-called waste-products as well as the original organic matter.

Berry Place is honoured and proud to have been involved from such an early stage and encourages donations to the worthy cause.

More information and updates on THTKB can be found here:

http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/business-and-community/the-house-that-kevin-built