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Creating a resilient home: a guide for homeowners
June 4, 2024Despite unseasonably warm weather last year, successive energy price hikes continue to weigh heavily on our pockets, especially during the colder months when reliance on heating systems reaches its peak. New homes are all designed to reduce energy loss. The building’s orientation and form, along w
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Grade II Listed Norfolk Farmhouse Reaches Practical Completion
November 19, 2024Last week, we reached practical completion on this refurbishment of a Grade II listed Norfolk farmhouse. The project involved the careful rationalisation of the internal layout, partial demolition of internal and external structures, and erection of a steel and glass structure with timber exo-skele
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Retrofit Case Study: The Grade II* listed Institute of Education at UCL
February 20, 2023With the climate crisis continuing to accelerate, and campaigners pushing for #RetroFirst, the new question is: should we demolish or reuse? For some time, the industry’s conversation around sustainability focused on building in operation, specifically, the carbon emissions generated once a buildi
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