Sipframe have designed a totally affordable, innovative, low cost housing range to help tackle the growing problems faced by first time home buyers who, according to recent reports, are now priced out of the market in the vast majority of UK towns. These affordable houses will also allow Housing Associations to offer a greater number of social houses for their available budgets, with added energy efficiency benefits resulting lower running costs for tenants.
Using SIPs construction will improve energy efficiency and radically shorten build time. Sipframe have been working closely with talented young architects to produce carefully crafted layouts which will optimise available land. Designers have worked hard to provide a range of quality affordable homes that are visually appealing, using a combination of traditional and modern materials combined with SIP structures, which give a contemporary look.
Sipframe affordable homes cleverly introduce private outdoor space at first floor level, essential where land is at a premium and private gardens cannot be provided. This concept will work well when combined with thoughtful site layout, where occupants can share carefully planned communal outdoor spaces.
The aim is to create communities with a sense of place, through clever layout of the homes around communal squares, landscaped areas and block paved parking courts. This has the dual benefit of stimulating greater community interaction and saving owners the responsibility of tending their own gardens. Through this approach to environmental management, developers and housing associations will be able to ensure the quality of their developments is maintained for many years to come.
Sipframe will work closely with client architects to ensure delivery of quality affordable housing, using Sipframe designs or adapting client designs.
A Sipframe ‘affordable’ house can be manufactured as a modular system incorporating pre-finished kitchen and bathroom pods, smart wiring and plumbing, windows & doors, and a wide range of pre-fixed external facades to roof and walls. The building will be craned onto a pre-prepared foundation and linked to mains services. The whole process, from arriving on site to completion, will be done in 3-5 days per house.
Due to the energy efficiency of SIPs, our affordable housing will benefit lower capacity heating systems. Sipframe can design-in private or district renewable energy heating and power generation systems into single or multiple packages, on request. Other technologies such as can heat recovery and ventilation systems, rainwater recovery systems and waste water heat recovery systems can also be provided. |
