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Energy saving retrofits

To address the climate crisis we need to rapidly reduce energy use, and refurbishing homes to high energy standards is one of the key measures that can help. CAT Information…

CAT Graduate profile – Paula Huerta Andrés, Architect

Alis Rees, our Graduate School Marketing Officer, recently caught up with Paula, who graduated from CAT in 2011. She now has her own architectural studio Studio Bambook in Indonesia and…

CAT Graduate Steve Cole’s JUMP! Training diary

At the start of this year, CAT Graduate Steve Cole joined lecturer Louise Halestrap and other trainers from Earth Building UK and Ireland to attend JUMP!, a European funded train-the-trainer…

Short Course Stories: A Tiny House Story

Recently we caught up with Simon Corbett, who attended one of our Build a Tiny House courses in 2019, to find out how the course had helped him. In January…

Short Course Stories: CAT course inspires a world’s first

In 2016 Chuck Maffett attended a ‘Building with Rammed Earth’ course at CAT, since then he has gone on to set up his own business, eco earth walz making prefabricated…

A Green New Deal for Homes

As the campaign for a Green New Deal gathers pace in both Britain and the US, Jonathan Atkinson looks at how it could help transform UK housing.

Climate jobs

As we transition away from an economy based on fossil fuels towards zero carbon there is the potential for the creation of hundreds of thousands of new green jobs. Anne…

Doing architecture differently

CAT’s Masters in Sustainable Architecture course explores a wide range of solutions for sustainability. Here we take a look at some of our students’ final design projects to see how…

Old, cold and damp – how to improve traditional buildings

One in five UK buildings dates to before 1919, and they are often poorly insulated and difficult to keep warm and dry. We talked to conservation builder and CAT course…

Ask an expert: eco refurbishments

Want to refurbish your home in a sustainable way? With over 25 years’ experience, including as tutor on CAT’s Eco Refurbishment course, Nick Parsons has some great advice – here…

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