News & Events

Past and Present Events in and around East Anglia

Keep an eye on this page for past and present events and earth build news. We will update on EARTHA news, as well as any notable dates coming up with other related organisations. Feel free to contact contact@eartha.org.uk if you would like your event listed here.

This is a great opportunity for our members to meet and mingle, but to also have their say in how EARTHA as an organisation can develop over the coming year. We are really keen to make sure the organisation remains an integral part of the earth building services within East Anglia, and are keen to hear your thoughts going forward.

Following our meeting, we will be delighted to host our keynote speaker, George Evennett, Director of Architectural Practice, George Evennett Ltd. George has travelled extensively in Colombia, and would like to share his presentation, “Earth Building and Traditional Construction in Colombia”. A precis of his presentation will become available in the coming weeks.

George is an EARTHA Member of numerous years, and is currently collaborating with Director of MSC Naturally, and EARTHA Chair, Malcolm Carrington, on a project in Cambridgeshire using the earth build material, BETTABLOK. We will be arranging a visit to this site build late spring, where you will be able to learn of the many benefits of this new sustainable interlocking earth block. More information will be available at the AGM.

The AGM and presentation are free for EARTHA Members. Feel free to join us as an EARTHA Member and attend. A yearly membership is £25. A registration form, and directions on payment, can be found HERE. One-off event tickets are £10.

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MSC Naturally awarded 'Most Innovative Sustainable Manufacturer 2025' - UK for BETTABLOK

Our very own EARTHA chair, an original member of the organisation, and Owner and Director of MSC Naturally, Malcolm Carrington, will be is at Future Build 4-6th March 2025. He is exhibiting his earth build material, BETTABLOK on the ASBP Stand A30.

BETTABLOK is a sustainable building material of an unfired clay, chalk, lime, sand and straw mix, designed to be quickly installed, with zero production waste, 100% fully recyclable and miniumum energy input.

He has had amazing recognition from online magazine BUILD by AI-Global – www.build-review.com:

‘Most Innovative Sustainable Building Material Manufacturer 2025 – UK’

They have also published a bio of the product, the link is here:

https://www.build-review.com/issues/q1-2025/10/

BETTABLOK is currently being used in its first domestic build, which we will be following up on in the coming weeks, with lead architect George Evennett, and a site visit in the pipeline.

MSC / BETTABLOK are also up for consideration as a ‘Green Hero’ by Kevin McCloud at Grand Designs, which is very exciting news!

Feel free to seek out and say hello to Malcolm if you are thinking of attending Future Build this March. Malcolm is quite rightly passionate about his product, and more than happy to talk low impact, sustainable earth building.

We look forward to more BETTABLOK news to come!!

Website: https://www.bettablok.com/

28/11/2024 - The Future is Earth Conference

Conference Programme: ‘The Future is Earth’

28th November 2024

The Future is Earth

Highly recommend The Gamekeeper at Old Buckenham. A beautiful venue with log burners for cosiness, and great staff and catering. Comfortably fitting forty earth build enthusiasts for this all day event.

Anthony Hudson discussing the collaborative project The CobBauge House, Fakenham, Norfolk.

Please see our Member’s Area, where you will find more on Anthony’s presentation.

Will Stanwix, Technical Director of the Hemp Block Company. Will discusssed his personal and professional developments with sustainable, low-impact building materials.

…. and his most recent project ‘Clay Wall’

Refreshments and conversation needed throughout the day.

….. and a warming log burner!

Malcolm Carrington discussed his journey with earth building materials, throughout his working life and personal projects. A journey which has resulted in the development and patent of the Bettablok.

Michael Knights gave the most insightful talk on how the application of tar to buildings is far more problematic than imagined.

Simon Steele, with many years of experience as a building pathologist, highlighting the many positives to living in a clay building, as well as the difficulties which can be remedied.

Become an EARTHA Member for just £25 a year, and benefit from exclusive Member’s content. Presentations from ‘The Future is Earth’ Conference are available, including our Guest Speaker Anthony Hudson’s presentation of the CobBauge House, as well as EARTHA Committee Member, Michael Knights’ presentation on the application of tar to buildings.

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23/09/2023 - Unfired Clay Day and AGM

Dairy Farm Barn. Shotesham Park Estate, Norfolk.

A visit to a Norfolk heritage Earth Building, with talks from experts, and a hands-on workshop using materials and techniques of East Anglian earth building.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfired-earth-construction-past-present-future-tickets-685639404917?aff=oddtdtcreator

Here is an article written by Committee Member, Michael Knights, with a summary of the day.