On Site Sewage and Waste Water Management
What are our options if we are off the main sewerage system? With all these options we must bear in mind that the regulations in Spain are increasingly strict and the authorities may want to have a great deal of detail about the drainage arrangements. In all cases the appropriate solution will be limited byContinue reading
Off-site Construction In Spain: Fast, Clean and Efficient
Building sites in Spain can be disorganized places and are subject to the vagaries of the weather and varying skills of a transient work force. These days, you can construct most of your building inside a factory and then assemble the pieces on site. The result is a higher quality building and far shorter constructionContinue reading
Renovate Your Home in Spain with Care
It’s important to recognize the age and construction of the building you are renovating. There are significant differences between how some older buildings and modern buildings will respond to insulation and airtightness. Older buildings in Spain with thick solid walls may have been built with permeable fabric (stone, earth and brick) that both absorbs andContinue reading
Buy a Conventional Villa and Convert it to a Comfortable Energy Efficient Home
I’ve just been doing a residual valuation of a site in Los Monteros Marbella. A number of things struck me. Perhaps most surprisingly the figures do actually stack up. In other words even at today’s market valuations you can buy the land, build a new villa, and sell at a profit. So market forces haveContinue reading
Cost Effective Energy Efficiency Villa Construction
The Institute for Building Efficiency has recently issued a brief called; European Union: Cost Effective Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Among other things, the brief addresses an interesting issue between the implementation of energy efficiency at micro and macro level. In the executive summery it says: “what is cost-optimal in terms of achieving energy and climateContinue reading
