Working with home owners to improve and enhance their homes and to build new to meet their needs with special interest in New Houses, Passivhaus, Sustainable Design, Low Energy and “Eco” constructions. Increasingly involved with low energy retrofitting to existing dwellings.

Working mainly in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset but with selected projects further afield.

  • RIBA Chartered Practice
  • Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management
  • Member of the Sustainable Building Association (AECB)
  • Member of the Passivhaus Trust
  • Member of The Green Register
  • Work with Listed Buildings
  • Extensive experience in Health Care buildings
  • Experience in Designing for The Disabled
  • Recent timber framed eco cottage featured on “My Flat Pack Home” – Chapman build (UKTV)
  • Cottage received “Built It” Award 2012 for “Best Use of Timber Frame” (English Brothers frame supplier)

Environmental Policy

  • To work with home owners to improve the energy performance of their houses as far as constraints including budgets allow.
  • To move towards Passivhaus and Enerfit standards for all buildings or other appropriate low energy standards.
  • To include sustainable materials and components in all buildings as far as constraints allow.

Recent New Houses

  • New Low Energy House, New Milton (planning permission received, detailed design - aiming for Passivhaus Plus certification)
  • New Low Energy House, Somerset (planning permission received - aiming for Passivhaus Plus certification)
  • New Low Energy House, New Forest (construction in progress - on track for Passivhaus Plus certification)
  • New Low Energy Replacement House, New Forest (construction completed - Passivhaus Certified)
  • 2 Low Energy Houses, Parkstone, Dorset (completed and Certified to Passivhaus Institute Low Energy Building standard)
  • New Low Energy House, Chilworth, Southampton (potential Passivhaus intended to meet the requirements of Paragraph 55 of the NPPF)
  • New House on vacant site, Andover (potential Passivhaus - detailed design completed)
  • New House, Coombe Bissett near Salisbury (part constructed in phases)
  • 2 New Houses for a small developer, Near Salisbury (completed)
  • New Eco Timber Framed Cottage, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset (completed)
  • New Low Energy House with Annex, near Stockbridge, Hampshire (planning permission obtained)
  • New Low Energy Masonry House, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton (completed)
  • New House, Barton-on-Sea (completed)
  • New House, Whitchurch, Hampshire (completed)
RIBA AECB Architect in the House Architects Registration Board Association of Self-Build Architects