Juraj Mikurcik

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I checked the calendar and it's not April Fool yet 😕

cars parked randomly alongside a road

Exept when cars park randomly. Segregated lanes on the other hand work tremendosly well 👌

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

small dick compensation projects

Sufficiency, Efficiency, Electrification and Renewables are the inurance policy against fossil fuel induced cost rises.

I think you're being too kind

ah yeah, the mound! nearly forgot about that one

rotterdam's next landmark could be one of these radical proposals by MVRDV or heatherwick

A cynical greenwashing of the highest order 🤮

Passivhaus Retrofit Case Study Series | Stretford EnerPHit Retrofit YouTube video by Passivhaus Trust

If you liked Guy Martin's House Without Bills, architect Hannah Dixon / Progress in Practice and the builder Josh Day / Mysza Group take a deep dive into this EnerPHit retrofit project

From the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social Retrofit Case Study Series

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Passivhaus Retrofit Case Study Series | Stretford EnerPHit Retrofit YouTube video by Passivhaus Trust

If you liked Guy Martin's House Without Bills, architect Hannah Dixon / Progress in Practice and the builder Josh Day / Mysza Group take a deep dive into this EnerPHit retrofit project

From the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social Retrofit Case Study Series

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgY2...

Working from hammock on a beautiful spring sunny day

Happy ‘first working from hammock day of the year’ to those who celebrate

Just shows it's much easier to dismantle than it is to (re)build.

Updated for 2026

Jon and Nick are doing a book launch in London this week 👇

The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, Farringdon, EC1M 6EL

Friday 6th March
6 - 8pm

It's never too late to

✅ make our building stock more energy efficient
✅ heatpumpify/ electrify
✅ build renewables

We need to wean ourselves off burning stuff

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

Cost of ASHP HW cylinder was about £1600 back in 2017. Our space heating is a 2.5kW A2A mini-split that does heating and cooling in summer, cost £1200 installed in 2023. Hot water generation is by far the largest energy use in a low energy/ passivhaus home.

Three photos: Top: EcoCocon timber and straw wall panels pre-assembled in a local workshop. Middle: Pre-assembled walls installed between glulam frame. Right: aerial view from the tower crane, pre-assembled walls placed on to CLT floor deck, with central CLT core walls.

We're working on a piece about building smarter with pre-assembled EcoCocon walls - a sneak peek below. Do you have any burning questions you'd like us to address?

There are different options, for example we have a decoupled hot water and space heating generation, and towel rails are fed from the ASHP HW cylinder @ 50C. Works well.

Would be amazing but realistically I can't see it happening. The second best thing could be re-opening the former line as a cycling/ walking route

In what way?

the heating source is almost irrelevant, just don't use wood stoves/ other fossil based systems 😅

That's surprising, we haven't had any issues with insurance

Really good podcast about some of the challenges of insuring buildings made from biobased materials

Insurance is one of the barriers to wider adoption of biobased materials in construction, so thank you Ben for covering this topic.

Speaking from experience, once you get used to an e-bike, it's hard to go back to analogue

The 'without a place to charge' bit would automatically make me order the extra battery 😊

Also remember the quoted range drops significantly in cold temperatures.

who made this

Depends how far you want to go, if yyou want to bike pack etc... Try it & see. You can always get a spare battery later. Enjoy!

This is half the problem with the United States waging unnecessary wars in other places. Americans themselves have no idea how horrible and disruptive this violence is to other people, but instead only feel inconvenienced by how much it will cost to fuel their fucking SUV.