Veterans come 1st on 3 Peaks

 The Hereford and Powys Veterans 3 Peak challenge running team has come first overall in the A event 24 hour 3 peak challenge. Frame Wise is a proud sponsor of the team that includes our very own Production Manager Dave Lloyd.

A family business supplying quality bespoke timber frames for private and commercial building construction is the recipient of the latest Hereford Times/Baker Tilly Trailblazer Award for environmental awareness.

The Management Team of Frame Wise Limited are fully aware of the possible impacts their activities could have upon the environment and of their obligation to protect the health and safety of their employees. They are therefore committed to fully improving on existing and proposed activities with regard to the environment and to health and safety matters. This is why we are working towards gaining ISO 14001:2004 EMS for this spring and also towards OHSAS 18001 this summer/autumn.

High performance double-skin panels from timber frame manufacturer, Frame Wise, have been used in the design of a low-energy self-build project in the company’s home town of Presteigne, Powys.

Self-build clients, Richard and Hilary Rimington, employed local architect Don Reed to design a three-bedroom house with industry-beating thermal performance using sustainable materials procured, wherever possible, from local sources.

The house employs Frame Wise’s latest double-panel system for optimum thermal resistance. Launched 18 months ago, this new panel can deliver U-values of less than 0.1W/m²k, making it arguably the warmest open panel timber frame systems currently available.

A fact-finding trip to Germany organised by the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) has helped to identify future options for the timber frame industry, including how Passivhaus design concepts and other benefits of German timber frame construction can be applied to the UK.

The two day study tour at the end of 2008 involved 30 members of the UKTFA. It included factory visits to see Passivhaus schemes and pre-fabricated off-site construction, a presentation on how the very low U-values of the Passivhaus system are achieved and demonstrations of the latest woodworking equipment and automation systems.

Having visited Arctic Finland many times in mid winter I have been increasingly impressed by the performance of the timber frame cabins which formed the bedroom accommodation of the hotel in which I stay. Although temperatures frequently fall to -30C and -50C is not unknown the rooms remain consistently comfortable night and day with a minimum of heat input. It is not surprising that when undertaking potentially one of the most demanding commissions of my career that I turned to timber frame as the basis of the design for a new house for my daughter, son in law and two small grandsons.

Frame Wise Ltd has found themselves, at the forefront of the New Schools Initiative the length and breath of the UK. The main drivers from our client is the requirement to use a more environmental, sustainable and a fast off site form of construction, to achieve a quality manufactured product of which timber frame ticks all the boxes. Our key flexible approach and our on site practical experience has proved to be a key advantage, from building large New Schools in Wales, to building large extensions to existing schools throughout the Midlands.