Earthship Brighton by numbers
- 1,000 used car tyres rammed in walls
- 700m - distance if all tyres where put in a line
- 125m2 total floor area
- 5 rooms - meeting space, office, kitchen, bathroom and conservatory
- £330,000 - total cost of development
- 48,000 litres - rainwater that can be harvested a year
- 1,500 card board boxes used
- 2 grey water planters, combined total area 12.5m2
- 5 skylights for natural ventilation
- 124 people trained in earthship construction in 2003
- 18 photo-voltaic panels providing the earthship with electricity
- 2 tonnes of can and bottles used
- 7 filters in rain purification system
- 40 batteries for electrical storage
- 2,800 litres - capacity of septic tank
- 4m - diameter of hut module
- 1 wind turbine - the first in Brighton and Hove
- 5,500 visitors in the last year
- 2 sun-pipes for passive ventilation
- 90 reclaimed granite blocks used
- 125 - appearances of Earthship Brighton in mainstream press