To find out more, Countryliving.com/uk spoke to Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud to discuss the biggest changes you can make to your home to make it more eco-friendly, sustainable and efficient.
"You do more for the environment by super-insulating a building.
The embodied energy of a building is a very small part of the environmental impact compared to the in-use energy costs over say 50 to 100 years.
Kevin emphasises the importance of remembering to do the small things, rather than just the big, fundamental changes to your home.
The event will offer visitors many interesting seminars on environmental topics.
"There is a big water saving and non-plastic theme this year at the show.
I’ll also be talking about another comparative area – clean drinking water," says Kevin.
"Friends of the Earth are selling their aluminium water bottles throughout the show, but we’ve also got ‘Join the Pipe’, an initiative to promote clean drinking water across the world.
"As part of that I’m giving the talk about the history of the toilet, all about sanitation.
And there is a very simple and fundamental fact that unless a home has a functioning toilet and clean drinking water, human beings can’t use it.