Sustainable Design Collective

Sustainable Design Collective provide award winning timber frame Kit Homes for Passivhaus and Low Carbon projects, alongside Sustainability Consultant and Sustainable Architects Services. With 40 years’ experience, in providing advice and consultancy, architectural design and turkey solutions for Social Housing, Self-​build or commercial projects designing entire schemes or retrofit extensions. Bill Brown RIBA our Managing/​Technical Director has 40 years’ experience in housing, interior design and commercial architecture. Bill is a Housing and Planning specialist and has worked as a Director of Housing and Construction in local Government. We offer sustainability consultancy services including SAP and PHPP modelling and production of EPCs. We also undertake Energy and Sustainability Statements for planning applications, Feasibility Studies for renewable energy options and PHPP modelling for Passivhaus projects. Our Sustainability Director Donal Brown BSc, MSc has extensive experience on low carbon projects. With strong expertise in Code for Sustainable Homes, BREEAM and SAP PHPP energy modelling standards renewable energy, Passivhaus and sustainable design features, we provide consultancy on the most cost effective energy systems for your project. Our timber frame designers use the latest CAD software, to precision engineer designs that are made using precise modern methods of manufacture. This enables housing kits to be flat packed, and whole homes are loaded onto low loaders and transported to site, with houses watertight in a matter of days. Simultaneously we install our ‘passive slab’ foundation this eliminates thermal bridging and has been developed in line with the Passivhaus standard. Modern kit home methods reduce build times, and therefore save money. Our system uses natural materials, and the build system has extremely low u-​values. We provide airtightness services at first fix to achieve a Passivhaus air test as a minimum.