With four decades of building high-end houses under his tool-belt, Tim Lawton is still producing top-end houses - albeit slowly, one at a time.

Cygnum begin Timber Frame Construction at UK's First Innovative Passive School

Irish consumers are increasingly becoming more aware of the need to future proof their home. The Precision® range is a unique product which allows home-builders to easily achieve outstanding levels of energy efficiency, up to and including Passive House levels.

In a response to the decline in house selling activity, we have utilized our considerable in-house skills to develop cost effective solutions to people space needs.

Our efforts to continue with innovating the timber frame product have been acknowledged at European level following the award of project to research ways of increasing the use of recycled materials in timber frame panels.

What's on your list of top 10 things to do in life? Aside from the obligatory round-the-world cruise, building your dream home would probably feature high in many people's wish list.
Department of the Environment figures show that over 19,663 individual detached houses were completed last year and just over 4,000 more were finished during the first quarter of 2008.

Self-builders should remember that you need a roof over your head until your new home is habitable. You may even be paying two mortgages for a time so factor the cost of living into your budget and allow sufficient time for delays.
'That's one of the reasons we chose a timber frame house: the speed of build is much quicker so the overlap in the two mortgages was kept to a minimum,' explains Niall.

Macroom based manufacturers, Cygnum have entered the frame in the British housing market. The company has just signed a deal with developer Nicholas King Homes Ltd to supply the total timber frame complement to a 125-apartment complex in the upmarket St. Albans area of London.
The move overseas was made to counter declining activity in the Irish construction industry, and was preceeded by the appointment of Director of Sales in the UK, Stuart Scott six months ago.

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland is soon to move into its brand new state-of-the-art daycare and respite centre in Blackrock, Co Dublin. This 3,000 square metre facility - which encompasses 11 bedrooms, as well as care, office and training facilities - was originally conceived in brick and block by award winning London-based architects Niall McLaughlin Architects, but was changed to timber frame for financial reasons.