Thu, 28 May 2026 07:30:25 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241119#Comment_241119 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241119#Comment_241119 Sat, 21 May 2016 20:42:29 +0100 gravelld https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241129#Comment_241129 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241129#Comment_241129 Sat, 21 May 2016 23:10:30 +0100 daiking
Got a tiling question. Or there was another tiler wasn't there?]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241165#Comment_241165 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241165#Comment_241165 Sun, 22 May 2016 15:49:28 +0100 stones
http://www.buildhub.org.uk/]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241166#Comment_241166 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=241166#Comment_241166 Sun, 22 May 2016 17:01:13 +0100 Triassic
You never know the old ebuild might spring back into life.....

Edit - I got an email because I'd registered an interest and that allowed me to pre-register. So as Stones says, it's 7pm for those of you who didn't register an interest.

http://forum.buildhub.org.uk]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260600#Comment_260600 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260600#Comment_260600 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 02:21:35 +0100 caliwag https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260603#Comment_260603 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260603#Comment_260603 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 08:10:49 +0100 ferdinand2000
Not sure if you want to contact a Dave or other person on Buildhub, here or who owned Ebuild.

For Buildhub it is either get an account and contact one of these people to ask via PM:
http://www.associatedlead.co.uk/copper-rainwater-systems.html

Or use the general contact page:
http://forum.buildhub.org.uk/ipb/contact/

For the owner of Ebuild admin@ebuild.co.uk has a fair chance depending on whether they are still reading domain mail, or there is a mail address on the whois record at nominet.org.uk.

While I have you can I request permission to repost your Design Guide on Buildhub, as it is always excellent source materials to let self-builders understand what Architects are for and prevent them building houses that are fit only for a monopoly board.

We try to follow the rules so I have not posted it without permission.

PS I had a half-day on a tour of his house with Peter Aldington last April - excellent.

Rgds

Ferdinand

(Edit: Made whisper public since Caliwag replied publicly).]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260604#Comment_260604 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260604#Comment_260604 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:26:21 +0100 caliwag
Interesting you've developed your interest in Peter Aldington,indeed met him..a very underrated architect...the opposite of a starchitect!

I'll keep you posted re book and thanks for your interest. I didn't know there was a Buildhub until yesterday...must join in, if I'm allowed. Best regards, Jim]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260605#Comment_260605 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260605#Comment_260605 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:43:22 +0100 ferdinand2000
Yep, Buildhub went through its 50,000th posting about a month ago :-). Doing alright. I recommend the Construction Cocktails:
http://forum.buildhub.org.uk/ipb/topic/616-construction-cocktails/

On the copyright issue, you *should* have no need to contact Ebuild since their stated license is specifically "non-exclusive" and does not prevent you publishing elsewhere. *Unless* you have a specific contract where Ebuild paid you for different rights and these affect your updated version now.

Copyright Law makes the copyright yours the author not theirs unless there is a contract or agreement to the contrary.

"If you post or publish content on ebuild.co.uk, including but not limited to content in the form of forum posts, blog entries, articles or user comments, you are granting ebuild.co.uk a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your content in connection with ebuild.co.uk and any associated publications."
http://www.ebuild.co.uk/index.php?app=forums&module=extras§ion=boardrules

I think I have seen your book on a Timber-Frame company website somewhere as a resource - if they paid you for the original version there may be an issue depending on the specific agreement extending to future versions.

On the Buildhub permission, it would clearly :-) (!) be a good publicity benefit to make the original version widely available, provided that the proposed paid-for updated version is sufficiently different, as it would act as good marketing for your new one. That is my story anyway. I would be tempted to offer it as a resource if there was a link to the new purchasable one. However, I am only a bog-standard Buildhub member, so I only get to float eccentric ideas and not make decisions on them.

It is a common tactic in Academe to publish the draft version of an Academic Paper to a free website, then the final one in a journal, in order to prevent the academic publishers maintaining their stranglehold on the dissemination channel for the researcher's content.

Best of luck.

Ferdinand]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260606#Comment_260606 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260606#Comment_260606 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:23:11 +0100 caliwag
Thanks again...all the best, Jim/Jamie]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260608#Comment_260608 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260608#Comment_260608 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 03:58:35 +0100 ferdinand2000
I think we have done enough detailed chat using the goodwill of GBF, so it is for you to start over on Buildhub if you wish, then decide how to tackle the blog / book etc after a chat with the moderators first. That last is important as currently I do not think there is an established practice.

PM me over there if you wish.

Ferdinand]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260609#Comment_260609 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260609#Comment_260609 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 04:19:30 +0100 ferdinand2000
> I'm amazed you managed to find the design notes on Solo's site.

It is surpisingly easy, because online search is very very good.

A search on Jim Comrie Design Notes brings up several versions at the top, including the 2006 one from Scribd, and the 2010 one from Issuu.

Alternatively, the world wide web is indexed by content, so all you do is put a reasonably sized snippet (say 15-20 words) of any paragraph - preferably one with distinctive words in it - into Google or Bing and there is an excellent chance it will be in the first 5-20 results. Including heads and subheads helps more.

Since PDFs and other file types are indexed it will quite often find them even after a link is broken.

Ferdinand]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260610#Comment_260610 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=14243&Focus=260610#Comment_260610 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:20:19 +0100 caliwag