A solar wall was also erected on the south-west facade of the building to preheat fresh air.
Two other councils where no party currently has overall control, Cumbria and Warwickshire, are in his sights too, as are two counties in the south-west where the Lib Dems now have a tenuous hold.
Solar power has an intuitive appeal under the blistering south-western sun, but it is still expensive per megawatt.
THE Acacia Hair and Beauty Salon in Worcester Park, a suburb in south-west London, is looking for an apprentice.
The bucolic woods, vineyards and meadows of the south-west were such a delight after the Great Sandy Desert that we rode along grinning in our helmets and saying: "Corners!
It corresponds with a weaker south-west monsoon and a longer dry season.
There are wildfires in the south-west and water restrictions in the south-east. Fields are scrubby and fallow, and in some counties the ground is riddled with deep cracks.
Fryeburg, in south-west Maine near the New Hampshire border, sits on an enormous aquifer.
The most likely spawning ground for that earthquake will be 100km or more to the south-west, where the Philippine plate dives under the Eurasian plate, creating a continuous sequence of shudders.
A British coastguard spokesman said: "They had left the Seychelles on 22 October and were going on a 150 nautical mile passage south-west to the Amirante Islands, en route to Tanzania.
Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in south-western Kansas.
The other, less-remarked trend, which Bagehot observed on a circuit of marginal constituencies in the south-west, is the enlarged role of local issues and candidates.
In 2000, Rashad returned to his home town of Ibb, a verdant city in Yemen's south-west, to make the necessary arrangements.
