Specialists in
SIPs and timber frame.
We have no system to defend and no factory to fill. We build with SIPs and timber frame from leading manufacturers, and recommend what suits your design, site and budget.
Which suits your project?
| SIPs | Timber frame | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Insulated wall and roof panels | Insulated timber walls with an engineered timber roof structure |
| Strengths | Fast-track install, exceptional airtightness, thin walls | Economical, flexible, proven |
| Rooms in the roof | Excellent, with open roof spaces | Good, with trusses or cassettes |
| Our use | Our most-used system | Where price and flexibility lead |
Hybrid combinations and traditional brickwork finishes are available too. SIPs and timber frame are our specialism. Where a project calls for it, and it brings clear benefits in delivery and in living in the home, we’ve also built with ICF and volumetric modular. We'll talk them through with you. Brick and block? If your site or design suits it, we'll tell you, but it isn't what we do.
Superstructure Options Review
Got quotes from manufacturers and no idea what you’re getting, what you need, or what’s missing? That’s what we solve. We partner with leading manufacturers and cover what they wouldn’t normally provide: construction, construction management, site surveys and reports, and on-site construction activities. Scopes differ, and buying a system before engineering typically adds 10–18% once the engineering catches up. Our review lines the proposals up like-for-like.
Scope & exclusions
Including floor and joist types.
Thermal & airtightness
What each system really achieves.
Roof, fire & certification
BBA or equivalent, and fire strategy.
Site works & interfaces
Programme, follow-on trades and the gaps between packages.
On-site skills that make systems work
Foundations, facades, roofing, windows and airtightness are where offsite systems succeed or fail. Our teams handle them, with traditional construction as a supporting skill wherever your design or planning calls for it. Our skills: design for manufacture and assembly, SIPs and timber frame installation, integration, project management, cost management, health and safety, manufacturing management, value engineering and customer service.
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Our site team