News and events
News
2012
- EU funds €1.6m project for straw homes
- Cleaner construction supported through international research development
2011
- LimesNet awards £50k to support international research missions
- LimesNet: New research network to make construction greener
- University’s innovative ‘green’ buildings at centre of new government environmental study
2010
2009
- Film: Kevin McCloud opens the BaleHaus at Bath
- Kevin McCloud visits Uni's very own grand design
- Low carbon straw house passes fire test
- Hemp could be key to zero-carbon houses
- Public lecture: Grow your own building from earth, hemp and straw
Events
LimesNet conference - 11-13 July 2012
Fabric Formwork conference - 27-29 June 2012
Biomaterials and Binders for Construction: European workshop in Darmstadt, 21-22 November 2011
An international workshop held in Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, co-organised by the British Consulate-General in Germany, the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials and Technische Universitat Darmstadt.
Event downloads
- Vincent Picandet "Hemp shiv characterisation: particle size distribution, water absorption and bulk compressibility" (pdf)
- Christopher Lanos "Mechanical properties of Hempcrete" (pdf)
- Laurent Arnaud "From material properties to hygrothemal behaviour of hemp concretes" (pdf)
- Pete Walker "Structural performance of confined timber and walling" (pdf)
- Daniel Daviller "The French Market and consideration of thermo-hydrothermal behaviour of hemp-lime constructions" (pdf)
11th International Conference on Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies, September 2009
NOCMAT 2009 was hosted by BRE CICM with over 160 delegates attending from over 30 countries. Full list of event downloads >>
Grow your own building: the use of earth, help and straw in modern construction, January 2009
As part of the University of Bath's Inaugural Lecture Series, Professor Pete Walker, Director of BRE CICM, presented his lecture Grow your own building: The use of earth, hemp and straw in modern construction.
Event downloads
Technical performance of traditional construction materials: Innovation in the use of building materials, September 2008
Event downloads
- Eelko Brouwer 'Innovation in shelter' (0.2Mb) (pdf)
- Ben Brungraber 'Traditional Timber Construction' (11.2Mb) (pdf)
- Dave Hughes 'Lime in construction' (1.4Mb) (pdf)
- Paul Jaquin 'The Materials Properties of Earth Buildings' (2.6Mb) (pdf)
- Stephen Jones 'Quakesafe Adobe' (9.4Mb) (pdf)
- Tim Mander 'ModCell' (5.1Mb) (pdf)
- Richard Murphy 'LCA of renewable materials' (1.5Mb) (pdf)
- Graham Saunders 'Meeting future shelter needs - materials and innovation' (0.7Mb) (pdf)
- Jon Shanks & Pat Borer 'CAT WISE Project' (13.4Mb) (pdf)
- David Trujillo 'Structural use of bamboo' (4.1Mb) (pdf)
- Pete Walker 'Unfired clay building materials' (4.8Mb) (pdf)
- Tim Yates 'Natural stone: new uses for a traditional material' (1.7Mb) (pdf)
- Conference report (pdf)
International conference on structural analysis of historical construction, July 2008
The SAHC '08 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Construction was held in Bath from July 2-4, 2008.
International symposium on earthen structures (ISES-2007), August 2007
ISES 2007 was held by the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
