Materials

Sustainable Materials

ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) purchasing policy ensures all timber used in our frame production comes from sustainable forestation, allowing the forest to be a living environment which benefits both the reduction in greenhouse gasses and ensures a vibrant and natural eco systems. Each length of timber can be traced back through a chain of custody to the very forest that it was originally felled in. All our suppliers are regularly monitored to verify that our timber supply fully complies with FSC (link to) guidelines ensuring our customers can be assured of the origins of the products we supply, and the chain of custody before it arrives as finished product on site. ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) ask all our suppliers to sign a pledge that they are equally committed to reducing their carbon footprint and regularly seek confirmation of what steps are being taken and what indicatives they have implemented. Where possible our first choice materials come from either proven sustainable sources or from recycled products, our quotation option (link to) toolbar will provide more accurate information about each individual product.

Timber Frame

With our staffs 30 years experience within the timber-Frame industry both in the UK and abroad ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) know a lot about this product, its design and manufacture, how it interacts with your total build and other elements of the construction, what will work and importantly what will not. We offer several different framed kit systems all of which are designed and supplied to a higher than average specification and performance standards, we are happy to produce kits which pick elements from each system to provide a kit and product that fits our client’s specific specifications and budgets. Click on the tabs below for further explanation of each system approach and how it works and what would be contained in our standard supply of that particular type of kit. ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) are pleased to provide quotations for several different frame systems for your project or a bespoke system specifically to your specification, simply click on the specification options in the enquiry tab and tick the items required and follow the instructions.

Eco Frame Intelligent Stud: ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) offer a unique twin walled system which can be designed to form the envelope of any building shape or Architectural style, our twin studs are spaced apart with recycled factory timber reducing waist and providing a composite cavity stud which allows for insulation between all faces of the panel this unique design approach provides for a constant minimum insulation value which cannot be achieved with other normally more expensive systems and hence fits with our aim that eco friendly should not always equate to expensive philosophy . The external panel face is clad with a choice of sheathing materials and breather papers or insulating foils to suit budget constraints all as listed in our quotation options toolbar. Internally the panel is finished with a 6mm tempered hard board covered with an air tight membrane and a service void batten (see Intelligent stud detail). Warmcell insulation is then blown into the frame cavity post construction.

Intelligent stud panels can be produced in any width from 200 – 400mm to suit your design performance requirements, with the later producing what is often referred to as “Zero heat loss construction”. Floor decks are designed using either posi web joists or composite “I” beams and can be supplied as completed floor decks for speed of construction, or if space on site is a problem as flat packed joists and pre-cut and coded sub components. Roof supply takes the form of pre-manufactured roof panels constructed from posi rafters or composite “I” beams clad on the outer face with a choice of sheathing and internally with tempered hardboard, again with airtight membrane over and service void batten. Alternatively depending on building type we will supply pre-manufactured roof trusses.

Site is our shop window our qualified and carefully chosen site fixing crew’s will erect your frame quickly and efficiently to our stringent construction specification and tolerances. Site quality control systems will ensure smooth running of your project from when it leaves the factory door to final inspection and hand over.

ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) preferred supply package will provide a comprehensive range of products specifically engineered to aid the swift completion of your project and those that would be considered specific to frame construction which may not be easily procured locally.

Std Frame: ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) offer a range within what has become industry standard timber-Frame to suit your budget and design performance; all panels are produced from 140mm deep studding and come complete with an air tight construction kit and fixing instructions. We have a choice of insulations available but our standard would be 140mm of damp applied warmcell panels are clad on the outside with a choice of sheathing materials but our standard would be OSB3 which would receive a reflective film breather paper. Panel design provides for triple stud pre- insulated junction sets where external panels connect with internal partitions and pre-fixed airtight construction joint strips.

Floor decks are designed using posi web joists or composite “I” beams and can be supplied as completed floor decks for speed of construction or if space on site is a problem as flat packed joists and pre-cut and coded sub components. Roof construction is typically using pre-fabricated trusses of a profile to suit your design or if required flat roof posi web joists or composite “i” beams or even exposed oak feature trusses if required.

Code 3 for sustainable homes is a standard that will soon become the minimum that is required, the code provides for numerous options to achieve compliance, and our std frame will provide an excellent platform upon which to build and ensure compliance.

Site is our shop window our qualified and carefully chosen site fixing crew’s will erect your frame quickly and efficiently to our stringent construction specification and tolerances. Site quality control systems will ensure smooth running of your project from when it leaves the factory door to final inspection and hand over.

ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) preferred supply package will provide a comprehensive range of products specifically engineered to aid the swift completion of your project and those that would be considered specific to frame construction which may not be easily procured locally.

Hemcrete System: ITP - Intelligent Timber Properties (Timber Frames Eco Frames Houses and Homes) offer a standard panel range to facilitate this excellent eco building system, constructed from 38 x 90mm studing pre-clad with 9mm Multipro XS board to the inside face which provides permanent shuttering to the Hemcrete receives a pre fixed airtight membrane with built in joint strips. A service void batten can be fixed if required allowing for all services to run without hindering the airtight effectiveness of the membranes behind.

Floor decks are designed using posi web joists or composite “I” beams and can be supplied as completed floor decks for speed of construction, or if space on site is a problem as flat packed joists and pre-cut and coded sub components. Roof supply takes the form of pre-manufactured roof panels constructed from posi web rafters or composite “I” beams clad on the outer face with a choice of sheathing and internally with tempered hardboard, again with airtight membrane over and service void batten. Alternatively depending on building type we will supply pre-manufactured roof trusses.

Site is our shop window our qualified and carefully chosen site fixing crew’s will erect your frame quickly and efficiently to our stringent construction specification and tolerances. Site quality control systems will ensure smooth running of your project from when it leaves the factory door to final inspection and hand over.

New Homes Manual: Why is it when purchasing a new home normally the most expensive investment in your live do you receive no true information about your purchase, how it is constructed and how it works, every car or television comes with a substantial instruction manual but new homes typically nothing. With each of our kit packages comes a manual aimed at providing the foundation for a complete guide to your home which will contain copies of all drawings associated with the project both architectural and frame construction. New homes need to provide for life time usage and therefore design statements clarifying what walls are load bearing and providing guidance as to what can and cannot be done without adversely effecting the quality of your homes construction is included. Copies of all structural calculations and energy performance calculations are provided for future reference. The information is all presented in a ring file with additional sections for the insertion of heating and services information and associated operating systems etc. For the developer or builder by adding the other vital information to this manual you can set yourself above the rest in the level of service you offer your customers, While self builders benefit from having on hand reference details of their home.