RHC EDINBURGH
17 – 18 OCT 2020
RHC EDINBURGH 17 – 18 OCTOBER 2020
Plan your day
Whatever the project, you’ll find that the more you plan, the better the outcome usually is.
Go through this page to ensure you are ready for your day at the Homebuilding show.
Ask the Expert
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Allan Corfield
Self Build Expert
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Allan Corfield
Self Build Expert
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Allan is a Chartered Architect who runs a specialist Self Build Architectural practice, working on one off homes throughout the UK. Set up in the midst of the recision in 2009 AC Architects has grown to a team of 10 and have completed over 140 projects. As well as designing energy efficient homes, Allan delivers self build seminars in Scotland and England to scores of potential Self builders.
AC Architects are keen to deliver valuable content and education through its website and have a dedicated self build blog http://www.acarchitects.biz/self-build-blog/ They recently completed their first book "An Introduction to Self Building”, which can be downloaded for free at http://www.acarchitects.biz/ebook
Chartered Architect Allan is one of the leading experts in SIP’s construction method in the UK and is part of the Structural Timber Association and is a member of NaCSBA. Allan and his team have worked on over 260 low energy, self-build projects across the UK. He regularly contributes to Homebuilding & Renovating magazine and is a Self-Build Expert delivering various talks at the shows across the UK.
Allan’s goal is to provide you as a prospective Self Builder with the inspiration, support, and education you require to build your cost effective, energy efficient, dream home.
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Jason Orme
Content Director
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Jason Orme
Content Director
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Jason Orme is Editorial Director of Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine and has worked in the self build sector for 20 years. He has built and renovated several homes, self-building for the first time at the age of 28, and has recently completed a major renovation and extension project. He has advised 100s of self-builders and renovators on how to make their projects a success and helped to advise Government on self build policy. He is a well-known broadcast expert on building and renovating homes and is the author of The Self Build Dream -
Michael Holmes
Director of Content
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Michael Holmes
Director of Content
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Michael is Director of Content at Homebuilding & Renovating (Print, Digital and Live), Chair of the National Custom and Self Build Association (NaCSBA), presenter of multiple property TV shows and author of Renovating for Profit (Ebury).
Michael is one of the country's leading property experts. He was presenter of Channel 5's ‘I Own Britain's Best Home’ and previously presented ITV's ‘Don't Move Improve’ and ‘Good Bid Good Buy’, as well as ‘Build, Buy or Restore?’ and ‘How to Build A House’ for Discovery RealTime. As well as being Director of Content at Homebuilding & Renovating, Real Homes and Period Living Magazines, Michael has undertaken over 30 building projects including two self-builds and is currently renovating a grade II listed farmhouse.
Michael has presented over a hundred and fifty property shows for BBC, ITV1, Channel 5, UK TV Style, and Discovery RealTime, including ‘I Own Britain's Best Home’; ‘Don't Move Improve’; ‘Trading Up’; ‘Good Bid, Good Buy’; ‘Build, Buy or Restore?’; ‘How to Build A House’; and ‘Hard Sell’.
For more information please visit Michael Holmes' page:
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Mike Cruickshank
Self Build and Timber Frame Construction Expert
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Mike Cruickshank
Self Build and Timber Frame Construction Expert
Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine
Mike has over 30 years experience in the self build sector, 26 years of which was as Sales Director of Scotframe Timber Engineering Ltd who are the UK's leading timber frame supplier to self builders and he has assisted literally thousands realise their self build dream.Since leaving Scotframe in April 2017 Mike has gone on to create a three day self build course 'The Easy Path to Self Build Success' https://oo328.isrefer.com/go/sb1/mc1/ which covers the entire process from finding a plot through to completion with every step covered in great detail.Mike is an expert in self build and timber frame construction, is a member of the Structural Timber Association (STA), regularly contributes articles to Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine, has been involved with various TV programmes including My Flatpack Home, DIY SOS and appeared on BBC TV's DIY Donnie programme as well as delivering talks at the various shows across the UK.Mike has self built twice and his passion is in educating self builders how to avoid the many pitfalls that he has witnessed the uneducated self builder fall foul of. -
Tom McSherry
Finance Expert`
BuildStore
Tom McSherry
Finance Expert`
BuildStore
Tom has worked in the financial services industry for 27 years - 14 of these, specialising in self build mortgages and finance at BuildStore, providing expert advice to hundreds of customers embarking on major homebuilding projects whether to live in, let or sell. Tom has completed two major homebuilding projects himself, and is widely regarded as a self build finance expert. He presents Finance Masterclasses at The Homebuilding and Renovating Shows throughout the year, and provides one-to-one consultations on finance in our Ask the Expert Advice Centre
Ask the Architect
Whatever the scale, undertaking a building project can be a daunting experience.
In the Ask the Architect area, a chartered architect from the Association of Self-Build Architects (ASBA) will be on hand to give FREE advice and support in a 15 minute consultation.
For more information on ASBA and find an architect near you visit www.asba-architects.org
Adrian Neville
Architect
Adrian Neville
Architect
Adrian is a fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. He studied architecture in Dundee and is a Director of 1st Architects looking after the Edinburgh and Fife offices. He is a self-builder himself and takes pride in proving professional advice tempered with the practical skills and budget consciousness he learned as a self-builder. He also advises on building defects which gives him an inside track on how things should be built in the first place. He is a regular speaker and has appeared on television giving advice on property and construction matters..
Philip McCulloch
Architect
Philip McCulloch
Architect
Philip has been practicing architecture since he left school and attended Glasgow Art School initially and then transferred to Canterbury School of Art to complete his Diploma in Architecture He returned to Glasgow and set up office in the Park Area He has a good grounding in general practice and over the past few years he has been concentrating on residential new build and alterations to existing properties.
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