Weekly photos from the same spot...week 9

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 10

Weekly photos from the same spot...week 8

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 8

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 7

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 6

Time Capsule Ideas

Our time capsule burial ceremony is happening on Sunday 13th December. Time is running out for submission of your ideas for inclusion in the capsule. The deadline is 27th November, and ideas should be emailed to Graham Long at renegadespirit@btopenworld.com. All ideas welcome.

Grant for Ground Source Heat Pump

We've just had confirmation of another grant towards our Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP). The Department of Energy and Climate Change have promised funds of just under £49,000. This brings our total external grants received for the GSHP to almost £80,000. Contractors have now started drilling 100m deep (yes 100m!) boreholes into the ground. This is stage 1 of the GSHP process.

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 5

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 4

Construction gets underway

The builders have set up their sheds and fenced off our site for safety. The construction works started by clearing some contaminated earth and the foundations of the old caretaker's house. During half-term they dug a trench to install a drain which joins at the Akiva School.

They removed more earth and prepared the site for piling (a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure).

Drilling the ground followed to create the piled foundations.

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 3

Weekly photos from the same spot...Week 2

Here we go!

We’re delighted to announce that our builders, Allenbuild are commencing construction of our new building today.

The first stage will be piling the ground for the foundations. You’ll finally see a lot of activity on-site with huge machines preparing holes in the ground. This is the start of a 61 week programme.

This will be followed by the drilling of extremely deep bore holes for our ground source heat pump and conditions will be muddy for a while. This will help heat our new building and will reduce our CO2 emissions by up to 20%. We are very pleased to confirm that we’ve just had confirmation of a grant of £30,000 towards this renewable energy source from Big Lottery.

Weekly photos from the same spot...

Watch progress of the new building construction with a weekly photo taken from the same spot by NNLS member, Stephen Ross. Here is week 1.