HPH392: What's the difference between good and bad retrofit? – with Marion Baeli

House Planning Help Podcast by Ben Adam-Smith

Dec 3, 202553:44Education

Marion Baeli, author of "Residential Retrofit," offers hands-on experience of designing and retrofitting high performance homes. As well as drawing on her personal retrofit she shares the lessons learnt from revisiting p...

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