At AJ's 'Creating Sustainable Architecture' conference, David Lloyd Jones of Studio E presented the interesting thesis that an environmental aesthetic needn't look 'earnest'; Ted King of the ODPM gave us a few clues - but not many — about the new Code for Sustainable Building; and Duncan Baker-Brown of BBM Sustainable Design presented a refreshingly honest, warts-and-all run-through of his recycled materials projects. His use of coppiced chestnut in Glulam beams could catch on and, by using fairly untreated lambs' wool as insulation, which 'smells a bit when it gets wet', he said it is 'easier to detect leaks'.
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