The Affordable Housing Range offers a mix of 16 house types, designed, Donaldson says, to meet local housing need while maintaining delivery efficiency. The portfolio includes one, two, three and four-bedroom homes arranged in terraced, semi-detached and detached formats.
Each architect-designed house type has been developed around Donaldson Timber Systems鈥� Sigma II closed panel timber frame system, ensuring consistency in performance, manufacture and programme, which is backed by third party accreditations including BOPAS+, BBA and STA Gold.
As part of the 鈥楽marter Inside鈥� approach,聽fabric performance is designed and built in, delivering low-energy living, long-term durability and compliance with current and future regulatory standards, including achieving the performance of the Future Homes Standard聽with no additional works required on site. The housing range also meets and exceeds Homes England鈥檚 minimum requirement for a Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) of 55% using only the timber frame build system. It allows the frames to be windproof and watertight on site in one day.
The specified components are consistent, using a limited range of window sizes and uniform bathroom and WC setting-out to ensure the efficient procurement of materials from a variety of manufacturers, while reducing embodied energy usage through material optimisation and repeatability.
The house range is supported with a suite of information, including architectural drawings and schedules, Revit files and embodied carbon calculations and a PMV assessment.
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