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Water Tower 'Sustainability Session' with Mike Tonkin

The fourth and final Retrofit Sustainability Session is now available to view on YouTube where Mike Tonkin discusses our award-winning Castle Acre Water Tower, a former water tower which was won in auction by a client bidding against scrap metal dealers and transformed into a sustainable home.


The Sustainability Sessions are a series of talks that explore aspects of sustainability in the built environment. The first series celebrates retrofit projects that aim to reduce carbon emissions while giving existing buildings new life.

You can watch the talk in its entirety below, which was chaired by Vanessa Norwood, creative director of the Building Centre.

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