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Building Performance

Pentan Architects win 2025 MacEwen Award for Severn View Park Care Home

February 7, 2025 by Sarah Lawton

Celebrating design excellence in socially responsible architecture and sustainable timber construction in Wales

Filed Under: Construction, Design & Specification, Housing, New-Build, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: Building Performance

Pilot project explores the future of sustainable schools

January 31, 2025 by Sarah Lawton

A pioneering approach to empower young learners to design sustainable schools through creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Building Performance, Skills, Structural Timber

The Secret Campsite honoured for sustainable design excellence at the Scottish Structural Awards

November 19, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Embracing the principles of a circular economy by prioritised material reuse not just at the end of the building’s life but from the very beginning led to a remarkably low-carbon and low-cost building

Filed Under: Building Performance, Construction, Design & Specification, Housing, News Tagged With: Building Elements, Building Performance, Circular economy, Structural Timber

Housing’s better future

October 31, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Social Housing Developers Community of Practice members enjoy a hosted tour to include both off-site creation of timber frame panels and on-site progress at the Gwynfaen Project

Filed Under: Building Performance, Communities of Practice, Construction, Home-Grown Homes, Housing, Manufacturing, New-Build, News, Projects & Ventures, Social Housing Development, Timber, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Timber Systems, Welsh Timber Tagged With: Building Performance, Communities of Practice, Home Grown Homes, social housing development

Building performance evaluation by Woodknowledge Wales

April 3, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Woodknowledge Wales kicks of its building performance evaluation service at a Cardiff Council social housing scheme building site

Filed Under: Building Performance, Housing, News, Professional Services Tagged With: Building Performance

New pods to bring built environment learners good fabric performance skills

January 24, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

University of Wales Trinity St David’s Construction Wales Innovation Centre welcomed delivery of two new building performance test pods designed specifically to provide hands-on learning around fabric-first building performance

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Housing, New-Build, News, Projects, Skills and Education, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Uncategorized, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: Building Elements, Building Performance, fabric first, Structural Timber

Free Technical Timber Webinars 2024 from BM TRADA

January 9, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Webinars run throughout the year

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Events, Glulam, Housing, Maintenance, Mass Timber, New-Build, Retrofit, Skills and Education, Supply Chain, Timber, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: Building Performance, Structural Timber, timber construction, timber fraime, timber in construction, timber properties, Upcoming Events

Why invest in woodfibre insulation manufacturing in Wales | Policy Briefing

September 29, 2023 by Sarah Lawton

Why invest in woodfibre insulation manufacturing in Wales Report

Filed Under: Building Elements, Building Performance, Housing, Insulation, News, Policy Briefing, Resources Tagged With: Building Elements, Building Performance, Policy Briefing, Social Housing

£4.6 million for GW4 Alliance-led project to retrofit UK homes based on designs to push beyond Net Zero

September 1, 2023 by admin

A project led by the Universities of Bath and Cardiff will work with communities in Bristol and Swansea to co-design energy efficient and low carbon housing A research project led jointly by the University of Bath and Cardiff University will work with communities in Bristol and Swansea to co-design energy efficient and low carbon housing […]

Filed Under: Housing, News, Retrofit Tagged With: Building Performance, Retrofit

July 13th 2022 – How to retrofit walls externally with natural insulation

July 11, 2022 by admin

‘How-to’ event introducing the use of natural insulation as a solution to the external insulation of walls. About this event The UK has 28.5m homes, and some of the oldest homes in Europe. Wales has 1.35m or 5% of UK homes and almost a third were built before 1919. Most are of solid wall construction […]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Building Performance, Past Events

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