Permanent Publications

A comprehensive hands-on guide for builders - both self-builders and professionals - and an essential handbook for designers that includes many construction details. * Step-by-step instructions for many processes * Over 600 photos, drawings and diagrams * Materials, tools and building techniques * Plans for a practice straw bale building

Tony Wrench shares his many years of experience, skills and techniques used to build an affordable low impact home that costs GBP 5,500. This book explains the process of visualising and designing a house through to the practical side of lifting the living roof, infilling the walls, laying out rooms and adding renewable, autonomous technology.