Houses and Homes

You know how you want to live, you know how you should live, but the current living spaces available simply don`t match that vision?

So, what are you going to do about it? Well, if you are serious about achieving that vision, creating the life you want, leading the life you deserve, we can help. After all, you only live once, right? Well, perhaps not, but it is this lifetime that we are concerned with right now, and I do mean right now, not next year, or the year after, or please forbid, too late.

We don`t produce standard buildings with a pretty facade to fit the bill on the face of it. We don`t try to think outside of the box, like modern architects trying desperately to connect with someone elses reality and failing miserably. We kick the box so far away, we can`t even see the box, the box ceases to exist. We spend time with you, discovering together how you live, where your life's going, where you would like it to go, how you want your life to be, not just look!

Together we come together to hatch a plan, an egg, a fledgling acorn of an idea. We discuss lifestyle, location, present and future needs, beliefs and the very elements close to you that make up your life. Then we look at materials, how you see your vision, and how we can achieve that vision together to make it a reality.

Your sustainable, energy efficient vision becomes reality! Your life has truly begun.

So, what is Passive House all about? 

Well, we would describe it as a super energy efficient home, designed to be so. 

Think, Low energy bills, constant ambient temperatures, clean filtered air to give your organs what they need without all the pollution and particles that usually come with it. 

This is the opposite of trying to make the existing home designs we currently have, energy efficient like the current building regs system tries, and fails to achieve.  Here`s how the UK`s Passive House organisation, Passive House Trust describes it.

"Buildings are a significant culprit of carbon emissions – accountable for 35% of total global energy consumption. Backed with over 30 years of international evidence, Passivhaus is a tried & tested solution that gives us a range of proven approaches to deliver net-zero-ready new and existing buildings optimised for a decarbonised grid and augmented for occupant health and wellbeing. Passivhaus buildings provide a high level of occupant comfort using very little energy for heating and cooling.

Passivhaus adopts a whole-building approach with clear, measured targets, focused on high-quality construction, certified through an exacting quality assurance process. For more on why adopting an efficient first approach is cruicial to meeting carbon targets"

Our mission, at The Woodcraft Project Ltd, is not only to design and build homes to Passive house Standard, but also to use only sustainable materials to do so.