A home for a sustainable future, rising rapidly on Carnaby Main Street.   With its low-carbon timber structure now complete & wrapped by the first layer of weatherproofing, our East Yorkshire Passivhaus stands as an emerging case study for a new standard of eco-friendly family homes.    Choosing a timber structure for this project removed the need for substantial amounts of cement-based blockwork & concrete beams, lowering the building’s embodied carbon substantially. The home will also be highly thermally efficient with a U value of 0.11 W/m2K, beyond both current bui ..read more

The diagonally coursed Siberian larch cladding is nearing completion at our ICF Passivhaus in Scarborough. The timber provides a low-carbon, elegant skin to the family home which will season to a palette of soft greys as the home weathers in.    The hillside house was built with insulated concrete formwork blocks, allowing the home’s walls to be erected like Lego in quick succession. The blocks are filled with waterproof concrete and the outside face of the building is again wrapped with waterproofing. This weathertight shell could be clad with a range of different materials, with ..read more

We are delighted to announce that our Ecology House project in the village of Walkington has received full planning approval, with unanimous support from the East Riding Planning Department and the Eastern Area Planning Sub-Committee. This project radically enhances a long-loved family home, achieving a new standard for sustainable living.   Existing view from the street. Sited in a quiet corner of suburban Walkington, this larch clad eco-home sets a new standard for sustainable living. Through the extension and enhancement of a long-loved family home, the Ecology House connects strongl ..read more

Now ready for its SIPS panel roof, this Passivhaus is testament to the pace and versatility of insulated concrete formwork (filling its sandstone hillside in just 4 months), the pioneering approach of our clients and construction team and the potential of ultra sustainable living.     The home is so well insulated that no heating system is needed. The energy efficiency of the home will help the home save an estimated 341 metric tons of CO2 emissions in use. Taking full advantage of the hillside nature of this new passive solar home, and the panoramic views it offered was a critic ..read more

The sustainable material conservation and reuse of the previous masonry cottage at our East Yorkshire Passivhaus site in Carnaby is continuing at a rapid rate, with thick monolithic walls of locally sourced chalk carefully harvested for reuse as the new outer skin of our proposed eco-home.   This project’s material strategy plays a crucial role in keeping the embodied carbon of the home as low as possible, saving an estimated 15 metric tons of CO2 emissions by not using new brickwork as the eco-home outer skin.   A major element of a building's environmental impact is the embodied ..read more

With the crisis of global climate change worsening every day, it is imperative that we find solutions and strategies for building & living sustainably. Building an average, four-bedroom, house-builder home emits around 80 metric tons of carbon dioxide (for reference the average household in the UK emits around 8 tons per year) in the manufacture of materials such as cement, which emits 1.25 kg of CO2 for every kilo of the material, the firing of bricks, which releases ~23 kg of CO2 per m² or (0.38 kg per brick) as well as the making of cast concrete floors, clay and concrete roof tiles as ..read more

We are happy to announce our project for the sustainable extension, renovation and enerPHit upgrade to a family home in Cottingham, East Yorkshire has received full planning permission approval. The last house along a leafy, tranquil lane in the village of Cottingham, Dusk-Dawn House radically enhances an Edwardian home's capacity for healthy, sustainable living whilst minimising the house's cost of living & environmental impact. This project began with the dream of making a family home which nurtured the healthiest family lifestyle, connecting strongly to the home's natural ..read more

We are happy to announce our project for a photography studio in Cayton Bay, Scarborough has received full planning permission & building regulations approval. Sited on the edge of the North Yorkshire village of Cayton, south of Scarborough, this photography studio & gymnasium is made with the ambition to be as sustainable as possible, minimising the project’s embodied carbon, maximising the building’s thermal efficiency & integrating a coherent suite of cutting edge renewable energy systems and passive solar design techniques. This project began with our client’s aim to shift th ..read more

The last house along a leafy, tranquil lane in the village of Cottingham, this project radically enhances an Edwardian home's capacity for healthy, sustainable living whilst minimising the house's cost of living & environmental impact. This project began with the dream of making a family home which nurtured the healthiest family lifestyle, connecting strongly to the home's natural surroundings and long, verdant garden, a relationship largely ignored by the original house. The house occupies a long east-west facing plot & our clients were struck by the dramatic quality of lig ..read more

Our Elloughton Sun Spaces project is progressing well on-site west of Hull, with all delicately patterned reclaimed brickwork laid, a sweeping bank of bi-folding doors installed and a roof of matching slates completed. This house extension expands the life capacity of a converted barn family home, adding a bank of well lit, warm spaces which open out seamlessly onto a verdant established garden. We took particular care in our choice of materials for the extension with a bespoke blend of hand-thrown, imperial brickwork, a particular grade of matching roof slates as well as matching to the ..read more