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24 Metre floating home hull leaving the workshop
Eco Floating Homes are to launch their largest eco home. Pictured is the 24 Metre hull for one of Eco Floating Homes latest projects.
The hull is designed to accommodate all of the eco technology and equipment so this home can operate off-grid. We aim to deliver smart sustainable designs, minimum energy bills, maximum comfort and a small carbon footprint.
As the floods continue it’s time to learn.
A key strategy in high risk areas is to build resilient homes. Holland has decades of creating flood proof homes, let's learn from their success.
Our floating homes and sustainable pavilions use permeable surface infrastructures and do not require the hard surface tarmac and concrete of modern housing developments, which have proved to be a major cause of the Thames Valley floods.
The rain absorbing green roofs we use have also been shown by the Dutch to slow the amount of water reaching drainage systems and rivers.
During Doctor Who’s ‘Day of the Doctor’, our latest Eco Floating Home at St Katharine Docks appeared centre shot as The Doctor flew to Trafalgar Square.
Exterminate all thoughts of traditional living.
Clipper Race Headquarters
Our recently delivered floating office has been used to launch this years International Clipper Race. The race departed from London’s St Katharine Docks and will tour the world through 16 stages before finally arriving back to London.
Homes on Water. Eoin Redahan talks to Eco Floating Homes founder Mike in "Materials World" from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Materials World July 2012
How can you live like Ratty in The Wind and the Willows, address your vitamin D deficiency and stay dry when Antarctica melts?
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Even if you ignore the supposed therapeutic benefits of living by water, the argument for floating habitats convinces more as sea levels rise. In 50 years, the Pacific Ocean may have swallowed the Polynesian Islands of Tuvalu. The Maldives, which are just 1.5m above sea level at their highest point, could easily go the way of Atlantis, too. The River Thames flooded its banks in 1947. What if it were to happen again? The science behind floating homes is neither callow nor tentative, effective, durable models have been built for a long time.
