Resolving complex technical challenges to realise your vision
Our technical team are available to support clients, architects, and design teams in overcoming the technical barriers to realising their vision. We are experienced in working alongside project teams at all scales and levels of complexity, contributing with insights from the delivery of our portfolio of innovative exemplar buildings, from concept through to completion.
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Regenerative Design Advisor
CUE at the Horniman
A biodiverse roof
The original green roof was a species-rich grassland home to a wide variety of flora and fauna.
Inspiring and facilitating systemic change to the briefing, design, delivery, and use of the built environment.
Protecting the status quo through sustainability has not achieved the necessary step change to avert the risks of a dramatically changing climate. Regenerative Design is a systemic rethink of how we consider the built environment and its inter-relations to society. Be it at the estate-level, building-level, or material-level, our experts can guide you through the opportunities and co-benefits of this approach.
Technical Advisor
Utilising our accrued insights to deliver your vision.
With over 40 years of experience delivering innovative high performance, low impact buildings, our technical team can support you in navigating the increasingly complex landscape of compliance and regulation without compromising your vision.
Specification Detailing Support
Specify right, build tight, ventilate right - our tried and tested approach to deliver efficient and healthy buildings.
Good design in the early project stages underpins building performance. Experience tells us that a forensic approach to detailed design and specification is paramount in closing the performance gap. We have refined details and tried and tested hundreds of products; our culture of research and evaluation means that we know what works and what doesn’t.
Having the right support to ensure that you have the appropriate detailing and specification on your project can be the difference between overly complex delivery of average performance and a buildable efficient solution with exemplar performance.
Site Delivery Support
Providing on-site and tailored support to guide teams through the journey to consistent outcomes.
Budget and contractual arrangements often mean that quality can be undone in the construction process. Many contractors have been building in the same way for a long time, so embracing new methods to improve quality and performance can represent a challenge. The Architype team work have extensive experience of working closely with contractors to guide them through technical aspects of the build reducing risk and uncertainty. We have worked successfully with large national contractors and smaller local contractors to help them efficiently achieve the highest standards in construction, including meeting the Passivhaus standard.
As part of this service we offer; lessons learned workshops, trades person training, Passivhaus inductions, regular tool box talks and help implementing on site champion to uphold quality and establishment of Passivhaus quality systems.
Energy Performance Advisor
Understanding your building's performance to drive down performance gaps and transform use.
Our building performance team know how to read your energy performance like a book, no matter what the data maturity of your situation. With our own extensive datasets we can help benchmark your building to evaluate its current performance, troubleshoot specific characteristics, and advise on corrective improvement measures to drive down your energy bills.
Energy Champion
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Safeguarding your building's outcomes against performance gaps.
We understand that buildings always present a myriad of competing priorities and challenges. As Energy Champion we will make sure that energy and performance are kept centre stage of the delivery process and not compromised unnecessarily, be it during design stage, delivery, or in-use.
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