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In detail: Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields housing scheme, Elmswell, Suffolk

By and Graham Bizley Graham Bizley2008-11-14T00:00:00

Lime-rendered gable walls are insulated with Hemcrete.

An affordable housing development in the Suffolk village of Elmswell incorporates sustainable construction technologies to achieve exemplary low levels of embodied energy and carbon emissions.

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