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ECD appointed to Renfrewshire Council’s four year £4m design contract to lead the retrofit of between 3,000 and 3,500 dwellings.

ECD appointed to Renfrewshire Council’s four year design contract to lead the retrofit of between 3,000 and 3,500 dwellings.

Design team consisting of Proctor & Matthews and ECD Architects has been given the green light for a refurbishment of a high-rise tower in Stratford to Passivhaus standards.

The LLDC Planning Committee approved Newham Council’s proposals to restore James Riley Point a high-rise building on the Carpenters Estate in Stratford.

Four families have been handed the keys to their new homes in a 66-home first phase of a broader £40m redevelopment.

ECD have been appointed alongside 37 other to Scotland Excels energy efficiency contractors £800m framework.

Planning application for the first phase of the scheme, designed by Proctor & Matthews and ECD Architects, has been submitted to refurbish one of the estate’s towers to improve the energy performance of 136 homes.

ECD Architects is set to get the go-ahead for an infill project that will create seven new family homes for social rent on the site of Lapworth Court, west London housing estate’s garage block.

ECD Architects working with Hanover Scotland to deliver the first social housing Passivhaus development consisting of 15 homes for rent across Conic Way and Montrose Way.

ECD backs the AJ Retrofit Campaign alongside the RIBA, UK Green Building Council and TCPA. James Traynor says 'I could not agree more with this campaign. This focus on our existing stock is long overdue'.

Caledonia Housing Association has completed a £4 million development project; regenerating the Newhouse Road area with 72 fully refurbished properties and the creation of 13 new homes for affordable rent in the city.

Morris and Spottiswood and ECD have completed key projects for University of Strathclyde, the new laboratory on the iconic premises was fully designed by ECD Architects with Morris & Spottiswood appointed as the principal contractor.

Caledonia Housing Association has submitted a detailed planning application for our Bellsmyre regeneration project to West Dunbartonshire Council for consideration by planners.

Caledonia Housing Association has submitted a detailed planning application for a major regeneration scheme to build 140 new high quality homes and improve community amenities in Bellsmyre, Dumbarton.

Our Longforgan Primary School Project has featured in the Dundee Institute of Architect's Summer "DIAlogue" newsletter. It focused on projects submitted for the DIA sustainability awards.

Announcement that the Sussex Yacht Club Project has been shortlisted for an AJ Architecture Award for the Leisure Project Category.

Inside Housing speaks to Emily Braham at Energiesprong UK, James Traynor at ECD Architects and Matt Hickman at Vinci Facilities about achieving the 2050 net zero target.

ECD Architects appointed as part of the Robertson team by hub South West to provide PassivHaus design services for a £12.5 million primary school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

Four years on from Grenfell: the cladding scandal and architects’ role in solving it

Hanover Scotland gets go-ahead for first green social housing development

Construction work to create much-needed, high-quality affordable homes for tenants of Caledonia Housing Association got underway this week at Muir Road, Bellsmyre, in West Dunbartonshire.

Contractors have finished work on a multi-million pound upgrade at a century-old Perthshire primary school.

ECD Architects named as one of the three Architects for the £57.9m refurbishment of the 700-home estate surrounding the Grenfell Tower.

West Dunbartonshire Council has approved a development of 66 affordable homes at Muir Road led by Caledonia Housing Association with ECD Architects.

ECD Architects has been appointed to join ng homes’ framework for the next four years. Based in North Glasgow, ng homes provides approximately 5500 high quality homes for people in the region.

Caledonia Housing Association has secured the backing of an overwhelming majority of tenants to press ahead with a £30m regeneration package for Bellsmyre, West Dunbartonshire.

ECD Architects have been appointed by Central Bedfordshire Council to deliver an expansion scheme to the existing Thornhill Primary School, located in Houghton Regis.

James Traynor interview about his new book: EnerPHit: a Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit, Passivehouse and his role at ECD.

Thurrock Council’s five-storey residential development at the former Tops Social Club site (Alma Court), in Argent Street, Grays, was named the winner of the ‘Housing Schemes under 50 homes’ category.

Caledonia [Housing Association] are delighted to award these contracts to such high calibre Architects.

LABM talks to James Traynor, Managing Director of ECD Architects about Award- Winning regeneration of Walton Court Centre in Aylesbury - A mixed-use community hub with 58 residential units above.

This year, the Housing sector stepped into the future. The Meadows - a £5.5m, 54-home regeneration scheme in Nottingham - became the first social housing to be built using building information modelling (BIM) technology'. - Luke Barratt

This report represents the first analysis of data collected from the Technology Strategy Board's Retrofit for the Future programme, and a review of the final reports submitted by the Retrofit for the Future project teams.

Tops Club feature in LABM: "Thurrock Council is using BIM Level 2 to deliver the new Argent Street affordable housing development in Grays. ECD Architects designed the scheme and are working with Thurrock to bring the project to fruition, providing traiing to help the council get to grips with BIM." – Claire Clutten reports.

Ike Ijeh in BD sums up the value that the regeneration of Lochgelly town centre brings: “Thriving new shops have been opened, historic fabric has been restored and converted, facilities have been improved and new housing and public spaces created, and scores of new businesses have been opened by local residents, galvanising a new era of economic activity in the region.

Video interview complied by Rockwool UK of James Traynor of ECD and Steve Groves of Portsmouth City Council discussing the reasoning behind the retrofit of Wilmcote House.

Scottish Construction now article about Lochgelly being awarded first place in two categories at the Planning and Placemaking Awards. 'Cllr. Mark Hood, Acting Chair of the Cowenbeath Area Committee has expressed his delight at Lochgelly Town Centre Regeneration work securing two of these national awards.'

“The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit across the UK and Europe.” Ike Ijeh reports.

In Portsmouth, an ambitious project is currently underway to transform an ailing high-rise apartment block in a deprived part of the city into a modern super-insulated building refurbished to the Passivhaus standards.

Sara Kassam from CIBSE included the ECD Greensky Thinking Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) event to praise the continuous learning process and ECD work towards closing the Performance gap.