Huff and Puff Construction

11/09/2025

Is there a word that describes how out of touch Radio 4 can be?

22/08/2025

💚Jonathan Davies, our brilliant Passivhaus Certified Designer, will be speaking at the SBUK symposium in Swindon on 4th November. 🌾

Jonathan Davies joins the line-up at the SBUK Symposium 2025 with High Performance, Low Carbon: Parc y Rhodyn.

Built in partnership with Huff and Puff Construction, this Carmarthenshire self-build is both straw-insulated and off-grid, the first of its kind in the UK, and a finalist in the Passivhaus Trust Awards 2023.

Come and hear how Jonathan is helping set new standards for low-carbon building this November in Swindon.

Early bird tickets are available.

👉 Find out more and book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biophilia-natures-blueprint-straw-building-uk-sbuk-symposium-2025-tickets-1449440769359?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/05/2025

📰The BV Magazine kindly chose me for the subject of their 'A Country Living' article this month, written by Tracie Beardsley. Click the image/link below. 😀

Dorset’s angry pom-pom who stole 100,000 hearts. Dorset's chipppies caught between a cod and a hard place. The Dorset Insider is worried, we take a first look at the day care closures, there's a Sprin

05/05/2025

📰A lovely article by Barbara Elsmore this month in the Sherborne Times (page 55, link below) about the Arts Cabin at Sherborne Area Youth and Community Centre - our first full straw design and build - now 10 years old. :-)

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06/02/2024

We simply can’t afford not to!

SBUK's opinion to BBC News' article 'Should more British homes be built using straw'.

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📸 EcoCocon - Straw Wall System🌾
https://www.strawbalebuildinguk.com/sbuk-opinion-piece-bbc-s-should-more-british-homes-be-built-using-straw

21/09/2023

🏡 Hello Dorset folks! The first ever county-wide ‘greener homes’ event starts this weekend and runs for a week.

👩‍💻Visit www.dorsetcan.org/greener_homes for all the details of properties you can visit.

💚 From 11am-2pm this coming Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th I’ll be at the straw bale built ‘Gleanings’ in Milborne St Andrew, giving tours and answering your questions about this excellent way to build homes fit for the future. 💚

13/07/2023

💚 A ‘strawsome’ article in the FT featuring our one and only Jonathan Davies, along with EcoCocon, George Mikurcik, Agile Homes and other fabulous straw folk. 💚

A low-value byproduct of cereal farming could find high-value uses in construction and packaging

04/07/2023

Today’s the day! The Passivhaus Trust Awards 2023 will be held this afternoon. Jonathan Davies, our Certified Passive House Designer, has worked tirelessly to pull together all the details for the awards submission for the Parc Y Rhodyn project. The first certified Passivhaus for a build under the Welsh Government’s One Planet Development scheme.

EcoCocon - Straw Wall System, Hawkland, One Planet Council, Passivhaus Trust

https://bit.ly/PHparcyrhodynA simple straw insulated SIPS self-build that prides itself on being off-grid & meeting One Planet development. Shortlisted for t...

12/02/2022

Governments must lead on vital and obvious actions like this.

Riba says scheme targeting efficiency and heating of older 20th-century housing could cut emissions by 4%

21/11/2021

Without effective policy - and money - from central governments we cannot decarbonise construction fast enough.

It feels crazy to be in a position that a national retrofit strategy isn’t in place and working at full capacity, says Paul Testa

16/11/2021

I'm delighted to say our build at Hastings Country Park, The Bale House, is a 2022 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist. :-)

90 projects will now be reviewed by the National Judging Panels to determine the final list of National & International Civic Trust Award & Highly Commended Winners.

Regional Finalists will also be considered for the Selwyn Goldsmith Awards – Recognising Universal Design excellence in the built environment since 2011.

Applicants will be notified in January whether they have been successful Nationally/Internationally and will receive a Civic Trust Award or be Highly Commended, or will remain as a Regional Finalist.

Please view the full list of 2022 Regional Finalists here:https://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/uploads/2022_Regional_Finalists.pdf