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EcoCocon will present at this year’s European Straw Building Gathering 2021, a 3-day event with practical workshops, presentations and tours, which takes place simultaneously in several European countries, July 30th - August 1st. The perfect opportunity to interview Herbert Gruber, organiser of this year’s ESBG, to get him to reflect on more than 20 years of the conference.

Juraj Mikurcik is an architect with a great passion for sustainable Passive Houses, which are built with healthy, renewable materials. Five years ago, he embarked on his own personal journey, building the very first EcoCocon home in the UK.

The Janus House Community was designed for the Home of 2030 competition to create an urban planning approach where the built environment and the natural environment are brought together to form a strong sense of place.

Conventional buildings can have a massive carbon footprint because of the emissions that come from manufacturing building materials. But buildings can also act as carbon storage.