A new house in Mistley (pictured above, also in News page ) is a certified Passivhaus Plus.    The existing bungalow was demolished, and a new two-bedroom house was built on the site, overlooking the estuary to the North and in a tight and mature neighbouring context to the South and West within the Conservation Area.  We started the project in 2021. The client expressed constant amazement that they need no heating.   We are interested to see how the house performs over the year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

This Autumn, we will perform the Quinquennial Survey for Cannock Mill Cohousing Colchester to help maintain the external building fabric elements.                                                                                                                        

We are also working on two retrofit projects. One is to certify the house to the AECB CarbonLite Standard, and the other involves installing insulation in the suspended floor as part of the long-term, step-by-step plan for the house transformation, which has been ongoing since 2021, including the artist’s garden studio. Both involve a large extent of self-building.