Last year Lakes College in Cumbria approached us asking if we could build a small eco-house that could be assembled and disassembled as part of the learning process for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and sustainable building practices. They wanted a true ‘kit’ building that would have some functional elements and that could be erected inside or outside.

We recently completed a new home for a college in Ellesmere Port. It’s actually a teaching resource, a fully sustainable house incorporating the latest technologies for energy efficiency and carbon reduction. The house will be used to enable learners to interact with the new technologies and to provide a visual and practical element to learning.

On Wednesday Architects’ Journal (AJ) ran a story with the headline “Stop funding ‘hothouse’ modular homes, MPs tell government” following a statement in a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (paragraph 9), which was looking at how the nation should respond to prolonged heatwaves.

There’s been a lot of news recently about the dangerous air quality in our cities – according to government figures, the number of premature deaths attributed to particulate pollution has risen since 2013, but little has been said about the internal air quality of our homes.

In addition to ensuring everything we do meets the highest standards of environmental sustainability, our business activities are equally sustainable and we spend as much time as we can supporting events that publicise the issues of global warming.

Last week we jumped on the train to visit Ecobuild at ExCel in London. The exhibition was good, but probably our favourite part of the trip was a whirlwind visit to The Crystal, a sustainable cities initiative by Siemens exploring the future of cities.

There’s been a lot of news recently about the dangerous air quality in our cities – according to government figures, the number of premature deaths attributed to particulate pollution has risen since 2013, but little has been said about the internal air quality of our homes.

You may not know, but we run interactive workshops in our Manchester dwelle.ing, reminding groups about energy, carbon and greenhouse gases, then explaining how we can all reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions and help to prevent Climate Change from getting worse.

Following our participation at Carbon Active, a Manchester Carbon Literacy event opened by Energy & Climate Change Minister Baroness Verma and Manchester City Council Leader Sir Richard Leese, we are now taking bookings for our workshops at our Demonstration Project.