daniel bates

Research done into Passivhaus Refurbishment during my final year of studies (and beyond) has now been published! The book is intended as a guide to the buildability of Passivhaus. It's full of images of build processes and useful information taken directly from interviews with contractors involved in Passivhaus refurbishment projects. Copies can be bought from Morebooks .

This is a project I'm working on for the development of a new kitchen and storage space as part of the developing business Menter Pandy, North Wales. Following the construction of a reciprocal framed roof building five years ago, there's been a decision to create a theme according to the design and build another one. Here's the original building which I only helped with a little:   The original design (not done by myself!) unfortunately proved to be very unsafe. The lateral forces of the roof timbers were so great they slowly slid down the supporting posts and also pushed them outwards, such that the walls were no longer upright. Remedial works involving the construction of new posts inward from the originals, tensioning wires fixed at the base of each of the five roof beams (taking the lateral force in an interesting pentagram shape), and fixing bolts tying the roof beams to the wall plates proved effective in fixing the problems. Back ...