Join the Making Tai ar y Cyd happen workshop on Tuesday 3 June 2025, 11:00, at WoodBUILD 2025 and come together to build smarter, share better, and learn faster
As the housing sector races to meet climate targets, the Tai ar y Cyd project is moving from vision to reality. Join us at WoodBUILD 2025 for a breakout workshop that explores how Tai ar y Cyd’s nationally developed pattern book is now being tested and embedded into real-world social housing developments across Wales.
Making Tai ar y Cyd Happen
This hands-on session will be led by Steve Cranston, project lead for Tai ar y Cyd, and bring together the voices of local authorities, housing associations, developers, and design professionals who are actively working to apply the pattern book’s principles.
With a dozen social landlords already signed up to prototype designs on designated sites, this is your opportunity to join the conversation and shape how sustainable, timber-based homes are delivered at scale.
From paper to prototypes
The Tai ar y Cyd project began with a bold ambition: to co-create a practical, standardised, and scalable design resource for low-carbon, high-quality homes in Wales. The result is a pattern book developed through collaborative workshops with over 60 contributors—spanning architects, engineers, housing professionals, community groups, and policymakers.
Now, the project enters its next critical phase. Housing providers across Wales are taking the designs forward on live sites, testing how the pattern book performs in practice. These prototype projects will help refine the approach, highlight what works (and what doesn’t), and create a body of shared learning for the sector.
A Community of Practice in action
To support this next step, Tai ar y Cyd is wrapping a Community of Practice around the prototyping phase. This will bring together everyone involved—clients, designers, manufacturers, builders, and tenants—into a structured learning community where experience is shared, challenges tackled together, and solutions refined.
By linking real projects across Wales, the Community of Practice ensures that knowledge doesn’t stay siloed. Instead, it becomes a collective resource that accelerates innovation and supports better, faster, greener delivery.
At the workshop, you’ll hear how this approach is being developed, what it means for your organisation, and how to get involved. Whether you’re already delivering housing or planning to do so, this is your opportunity to contribute to a coordinated, national effort to raise standards and reduce carbon in Welsh homes.
Why Attend?
- See how Tai ar y Cyd is shaping live housing projects across Wales
- Learn how to join the Community of Practice
- Understand the potential for local timber use and regional supply chains
- Explore opportunities for shared learning and joint innovation
- Help shape how we embed quality and carbon standards in real developments
This session is particularly relevant for housing associations, local authorities, developers, consultants, architects, and anyone involved in housing delivery or policy.
Together, we’ll explore what it takes to make Tai ar y Cyd happen—not just as a concept, but as a real, replicable solution for delivering low-carbon, high-performance homes that meet the needs of communities across Wales.
Let’s build the future together
The Tai ar y Cyd pattern book is not a finished product—it’s a living resource that evolves through use. This workshop marks a key step in that evolution, as the sector comes together to build smarter, share better, and learn faster.
