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Beyond Green
help people to treat sustainability as an integral part of what they do. Their aim is to help make the ideal practical, working in close partnership with clients and their stakeholders.

Green Architecture
hosts conferences and workshops designed to inspire and educate people on how to build sustainable houses, to improve energy efficiency and eco-footprint of standard housing.

GreenSpec
from the National Green Specification, this is the industry's primary source of dedicated specifications, work clauses, building product information and specialist information related to sustainable construction.

Designed with choice in mind, our houses provide a unique opportunity for the home to be tailored to an individual or family’s lifestyle and environment.

Similar to the new Mini car, which appeals to all generations, house buyers can choose from a selection of prefabricated options to suit their living requirements. At a later date different elements of the house can be replaced, added or removed, promoting a changeable and evolving place for living. Our home can respond to the flux of family life and grow with the family.

A highly personal space, our home reflects its owner’s personality. Personalisation is encouraged and choice is something more exciting than just the colour of the walls. Choices offered are environmentally responsible, sustainable, toxic free, and non-allergic to create a home that is highly individual while ensuring both the health of its inhabitants and the planet.

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Built to achieve a zero carbon footprint, our homes embody an environmental strategy to which technologies are key. Firstly energy demand is reduced, secondly energy needs are met on site, and thirdly resources are used responsibly, both in construction and in day-to-day performance.

Our strategy favours active environmental technologies over passive ones which are dependent on site and orientation. As a direct result our home is environmentally adaptive to its location. It features the choice between different environmental system configurations, each working together to achieve zero carbon performance.

The current shortfall of affordable housing in the UK has been one of the key issues we hope our homes can help to address. Although we're trying to tick as many boxes as possible to create the ideal tewnty-first century home, by providing a range of different options and features that can easily be changed or added in the future.

Flexibility and adaptability are built in as standard.

Although full off-site prefabrication is possible for

Unfortunately it is becoming evident that we are potentially repeating the same mistakes as those made in the 1960s when quantity was pursued at the expense of quality. We're not only concerned with the quality of the design of our homes, but also the quality of the components and workmanship.

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We understand that the quality of the public realm is as important as the quality of the houses that make up a community. We will always promote the importance of the provision of well-designed and well-maintained public spaces as an intrinsic part of creating decent homes.

We also keen to create homes that are sufficiently adaptable to enable home working as it benefits communities by keeping neighbourhoods active during the day, reducing travel demands and sustaining economic activity within neighbourhoods by extending employment opportunities to vulnerable groups.

The full extent of the options

We are also able to provide bespoke solutions using the same architectural principles we have developed in creating the modular houses. These should be considered where there are difficult site constraints, specific planning demands or simply the desire to have a completely individual design.

We would treat these projects with the same approach as any other bespoke architectural project in our practice, but with the advantage of utilising the existing knowledge we have of creating homes that are built to the highest standard, both in terms of design and environmental impact.

Specification

The home:works design has been created by architects FKDA, a young architectural / design practice based in Manchester (RIBA Chartered). The practice is design led and aims to achieve beautifully detailed projects of the highest standards by employing simplicity and sensitivity. We place a strong emphasis on the creative use of building materials, the qualities of light and the relationship between building and context, considering these issues to be of primary importance, as opposed to adopting a prescribed style and response. Ultimately our aim is for each project to reflect an informed and original interpretation of the client, site, brief and budget.

Developing a protoype for a standard house has challenged our ethos for personal and site specific architecture. It has therefore led to us create a structure that can be customised throughout the lifespan of the building. The basic design can be adapted and refined.

This practice does not specialise in particular building types. We strive on the diversity of the projects we have undertaken and continue to be involved with; from school projects, community buildings, housing, private residential houses to small scale office developments. For each project, irrespective of its size, we develop strong working relationships with the client, other consultants and the building contractor.