Building Man at Bodenham Manor
Channel: Learn Permaculture
Date: 07/05/2013

Help build the change in rural Herefordshire. Just like Building Man, Bodenham Manor represents an unfolding, experimental project engaged in an active process of co-creation. The collective dream for this incredible site and emerging community is a work-in-progress, but will undoubtedly involve a modular redevelopment of the already existing reformatory school and surrounding permaculture garden. By engaging in a space by space approach, we hope that this multi-use educational facility will help to fund it's own ongoing eco build retro-fitting. 

In 2013 Building Man will contribute to the retro fitting of the main educational space, to be re-imagined as a multi-use and multi- occupancy teaching facility for the wider progressive movement. We're also raising the roof, quite literally, and timber cladding the front of the building to provide a much needed face lift.

As well as these major build projects, Building Man will work with our key partners to design and install various carbon reducing, appropriate technologies on-site, including make-your-own solar panels for a 12volt system, LED lighting, a cob field kitchen, rocket stove biomass heating and rainwater catchment.