Ireland's first polymer abodes are turning tragedy into triumph Polycentric thinking: Ireland's first polystyrene home at Grangegorman. Photo: Conor Williams The frame for the Kilcullen home. Photo: ...

A COUPLE who are building their house out of polystyrene have revealed they’ll end up cutting their energy bills down by a whopping 70%. Hannah and Charlie are building their first house together, as ...

A couple are saving more than £100k by building their own house – using polystyrene blocks instead of bricks. Hannah Bird and her husband, Charlie, a professional golfer, both 26, bought the 0.25 acre ...

Justus Opiyo lives in one of around 50 polystyrene houses in a new development in Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, and says it has a major advantage over his previous homes. “Its temperature ...

A TEESSIDE firm is pioneering a new house-building technique using energy-efficient polystyrene instead of bricks-and-mortar. Billingham firm W A Browne fixes polystyrene panels on to pre-fabricated ...