The Woodland Community Hall

Recent visitors to the wood will have noticed the building work on the site. Work is afoot on the new Community Village created using entirely sustainable materials sourced locally where possible and utilising many innovative building techniques.

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Comments

Comment from Paul Mallion
Time 3 June 2009 at 15:12

A lovely building and a truly stunning roof, but I am interested to know how the roof was insulated. There is some multifoil in one image, was anything else used as well?

You are correct that there is multifoil insulation but above this is about 200mm of Ecowool recycled plastic. Outside the rammed earth wall is a void then 150mm of steicowool insulation – recycled wood waste. Under the limecrete base is 300mm of jablock. Nigel

Comment from Al Duncombe
Time 27 October 2009 at 14:58

Hello,
Is the new community hall heated? I guess you’re ideally placed to use woodchip or coppiced fuels?
Best wishes,
Al

Comment from Administrator
Time 2 November 2009 at 13:06

Hi,

Initially the woodland community Hall will be heated by a wood burner using thinnings, coppiced materials and soft wood logs. This will be stored in the form of hot water and released into the underfloor heating system. Eventually this system may be replaced by a CHP boiler system creating electricity and heat and running on pellets.

Thanks for your interest
Ranger Mike

Comment from Administrator
Time 25 January 2010 at 10:42

Hello and thank you for your comment. The immediate plan is to heat the hall with a split-log boiler the logs for which we will source locally. The main problem with coppiced material is that it has a high moisture content which would require an extra (drying) stage. In the long term we hope to use a variety of materials, including coppiced wood to provide heat/energy.

Hope that this has answered your questions.

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