Our Services

Enrvironmental Building

Whether you are renovating your home or offices, a self builder, extending your property or embarking on a new build...

Our environmental buildings consultant can offer valuable input on your designs to ensure that you are making the best use of passive solar gain and environmentally friendly materials and techniques. From mud huts to sky scrapers our consultants can help you to achieve the most environmentally friendly building possible.

At CAT all of our buildings are constructed with the planet in mind, we are able to offer very practical advice and we are willing to pass on what we have learned from our successes and failures with our own buildings. Our current building project the WISE building showcases the very best in environmental building techniques and materials, at CAT we practise what we preach and have over 30 years experience of doing so.

Although we cannot offer you architectural services and detailed designs we can work alongside your architect to help you achieve your goals.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Building with straw
• Building with earth
• Timber framed buildings
• Hemp and lime
• Lime and clay plasters
• Passive solar gain
• Thermal mass
• Glazing
• Environmentally friendly Interior decoration
• Insulation

Click here to download full information on CAT Environmental Building Advice in PDF format.