Phil Barrett

Community and impact driven leader
Founder at Real Living Homes - building spacious, zero carbon, affordable homes leveraging #wikihouse

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@ianmcnicoll @worddoodles_EP Thanks Ian. We're long overdue a catch up over a dram too sir

[Kate Raworth @KateRaworth]

The UK government's ruthless and reckless policies that "go for growth” require us all to ask the essential questions that Donella Meadows - mother of systems thinking - set out decades ago. So join me in answering these questions... 1/n

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@hum_drums @AlastairParvin @WikiHouse Selling them as an end to end offering if we can be of assistance. Leeds based

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

Timelapse of a recent build I've undertaken, testing out the @wikihouse Skylark 200 system. Whilst the focus is on housing, Wikihouse as a system is so very versatile https://t.co/FU7J6gDmFz

#opensource #wikihouse #skylark #ZeroCarbon #sustainabledevelopment #circulareconomy

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

Can’t resist taking a shot to see if I can do it in 5 tweets or fewer…

(Your fault @nicread !)

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@DaveGannonE30 @ianmcnicoll I'm enjoying wee beastie at the moment, it's a beauty. Glad you're enjoying yours Ian. Dark storm next on my purchase list 😃

[WikiHouse @WikiHouse]

We’re quite enjoying the cathedral clerestorey light vibes inside. But this won’t happen IRL. Those gaps are there to allow installers to reach in, to ensure that insulation and vapour barrier are properly lapping between the floors.

[WikiHouse @WikiHouse]

Last day of structural testing today. The things that look like 🥌 s on the roof are, yup, 45kg weights to preload it - then it’s gonna get shoved sideways…

.. really, really hard.

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@nodechomsky @PavelSnajdr @WikiHouse @FreeCADNews @GabrieleGranel3 @Three_Create @BRE_Group In tests so far it's showing great promise. So much design and thought has gone into so many details by @OpenSystemsLab and the broader team, it's brilliant to see it brought to life.

[WikiHouse @WikiHouse]

Full storey test being assembled for structural testing. Pleasingly fast to assemble and disassemble.

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@WikiHouse @Three_Create Chief sweeper upperer I'll have you know 😉

[WikiHouse @WikiHouse]

This year, thanks to @innovateuk we have got a chance to do exactly that.

So over the last few months we’ve been collaborating with @EdinburghUni, @Three_Create, @leedsbeckett and Real Living Homes (@Phil_Barrett) to develop and test it.

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@ianmcnicoll @BHaarbrandt @DaveGannonE30 Cracking bottle that. BenRaich next for me i reckon. Slainte!

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

Fantastic article. The term "affordable housing" needs a rebrand, it has been used as a marketing tool rather than actually being affordable to the many. A broken housing market is one of the reasons I set up Real Living Homes. People driven over profit driven focus

[Jo Richardson FCIH @Socialhousing]

Now is the time to right some housing wrongs. Now is the time to build our future homes. My piece for @themjcouk @CIHhousing @WorldHabitat

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

This is the written version of the talk I gave at #DeptofDreams on friday. Huge thanks to the @CIVIC_SQUARE team.

As I said to @ImmyKaur, if I only had one hour left to live, this is the talk I would give:

https://t.co/Em7VcjvpLm

[Rob Tweed @rtweed]

@NearForm @jasnell @addaleax @nodejs LNUG presentation link: https://t.co/EqlhBjODlJ

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Question. Answer.

[Phil Barrett @Phil_Barrett]

@marcus_baw @NHSX @rtweed I would like to see more support for and contributions back to Rob Tweed's great work in QEWD...that enables all this great work. He's a proper unsung hero IMO.

[Rob Tweed @rtweed]

@NearForm @jasnell @addaleax @nodejs It would seem that my "Cake and Eat It" paper and LNUG presentation were ahead of their time! https://t.co/g3LNCQ3MnO

[Track John Mastodon's private jet @johnmastodonjet]

Been playing with that @rtweed's #QEWD-hit-platform thingy, and it looks very good! Some fantastic developers making fantastic things out there. We need to ease the path to safe, secure, benefits-focused deployment. Keepin' it no-till / lo-till. Show what's good!