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Home performance design

Design-stage advice, while changing the building still costs nothing.

Design-stage advice, while changing the building still costs nothing.

The cheapest energy improvement in any building is the one drawn rather than built. Moving a window, changing a wall assembly or reorienting a plan costs nothing at design stage and is close to impossible afterwards.

We work with builders and designers before the drawings are sealed: modelling the options, testing what the envelope needs to reach a target tier or step, and sizing the mechanicals against a real F280 load rather than a rule of thumb.

The commonest finding is that the envelope spec people arrive with is unbalanced — money in triple glazing while the rim joist detail leaks, or a heroic attic over an uninsulated slab edge. The model finds those in an afternoon.

What you get

Modelled options at design stage, an envelope specification, and equipment sized to a real load.

Who it is for

Builders, designers and self-builders, before construction.

For builders — the rest of it

Licence 9E

Find out what your house actually costs to run.

A measured EnerGuide evaluation by a registered advisor, a report you can act on, and an honest answer about which programmes are open where you live.