It’s a great feeling, the excitement of designing your perfect home, space for all your family and all your things. The best use of space, light filled rooms, environmentally friendly, energy efficient and easy to maintain. A self-build project is all this and more. It’s also an opportunity to influence the design, the space you need, how you’ll use that space and how your home is built.
In today’s world of more sustainable living, building your own home also means being able to live in a sustainable, environmentally friendly home, built to exacting standards, using a sustainable low carbon structural timber system, that contributes to lower energy bills and provide a more comfortable home to enjoy. All while having less impact on our planet.
Choosing the right expert partners to work with is the first step towards creating the right home to suit your tastes and your budget. Our 10 steps to self-build are designed to help you to understand the process and connect you to the right partners to support you throughout.
Timber is the most sustainable form of construction with the lowest carbon emissions of any building material. Known for its sustainability and high performance, a structural timber self- build home provides you with the reassurance of quality materials, manufactured to precision specifications, built to last and designed to reduce energy usage.
You may be wondering which structural timber option is right for you. While there are many to choose from, each providing high quality systems, the main systems for building residential homes are timber frame, structural insulated panels, known as SIPs or oak frame.
There are many benefits to building in timber, the most obvious being its sustainability credentials. From farmed forests developed to sequester carbon through farming and continuous planting, innovative structural timber build systems are creating energy efficient buildings with renewable materials, supporting our move towards lower carbon living.
Construction projects can be stressful but work with the right self-build company and you’ll find support, guidance, expertise and experience you can rely on. Find out more about the steps to building your own home.
