As part of our Growing Up Green Project, this week, Hill Holt Wood hosted students from the Humanitarian Architecture Society of the University of Sheffield. The group had visited previously last June to assist with the hempcrete casting in the Bunkhouse porch. The three-day workshop required the students to brave camping in less-than-ideal weather conditions in the Roman Villa opening. WEDNESDAY 4TH APRIL 2018 The workshop began with a quick introduction to the course and th

Since September, we've been hard at work at Skylarks Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Nottingham. The task at hand, to design and build a timber frame building with inspiration drawn from the late Anglo-Saxon period. So with the help of volunteers from Skylarks Experimental Archaeology we accepted the challenge! The concept was to create an small 'village' at Skylarks Nature Reserve with six Grubenhaus' and a larger timber frame outdoor classroom to be used for teaching and

Wednesday and Thursday marked Chris and Bex's time to represent the business at Design:HHW's annual trip to Ecobuild, housed in the excel centre in London. The Pair spent the two days networking with like minded natural build businesses from specialists in straw bale to hemp crete and so much more. During the event they had the chance to meet up with Aidan our new to start design team intern. Every year it is great to see so many like minded businesses representing such brill