28 senior members of Northern Ireland Building Control visited Northern Ireland’s first zero carbon house in Armagh on Wednesday. Award winning sustainable construction and green energy technology firm Green Future NI, builders of the ‘Green Future House’ held the open morning after Building Control NI confirmed its interest in viewing the house ahead of impending changes in Building Control legislation....

The environmentally friendly focused Wilson family from Broughshane in Ballymena have beaten off stiff competition from 120 other families from throughout Ireland to win a competition ran by local wood pellet manufacturer Balcas. The Enniskillen based company launched their competition earlier this year to find a real life family to be the faces of their brites wood pellets domestic marketing campaign....