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Reiach and Hall Architects, based in Edinburgh, is an award-winning architectural practice with in-house Passivhaus certified architects. Operating in the UK and internationally, we specialize in delivering sustainable and high-quality design solutions across commercial, educational, residential, leisure, and cultural sectors. Our proactive and effective approach encompasses a range of services, from strategic planning to detailed architecture. Committed to the principles of sustainability, we focus on creating spaces that not only prioritize efficiency and affordability but also reflect our dedication to design excellence and a genuine concern for environmental impact. Read more…

RISE Design Studio is a creative architecture studio focused on creating low-energy design-led solutions crafted to individual client requirements. Our work is informed by an awareness of place and context, craft and materiality, local climate, the inclusion of sustainability, a consideration of form, and an understanding of the simplicity and quality of well-made buildings. We approach every project as a unique and singular opportunity. Through discussion, observation and research, informed by our considerable project experience, we engage in a critical investigation of each project’s needs and constraints – to deliver the highest level of design quality, and buildings which are Read more…

With over 12 years experience in delivering quality Passivhaus training (previously under the Carbonlite banner), in 2022 we relaunched as Coaction Training CIC, a social enterprise driving upskilling for low-energy building in the construction industry and tackling the performance gap. Our courses are aimed at creating a broad base of knowledge for practitioners right across the industry, teaching a change of mindset as well as the technical knowledge needed, using Passivhaus as a route to excellent building performance. Our collective of trainers are all experienced practitioners at the forefront of low-energy building and design; their industry experience informs our carefully Read more…

WARM is an independent consultancy with the theoretical and practical understanding to bring pioneering low energy buildings from design to reality. WARM was set up in 2009 by father and daughter, Peter Warm and Sally Godber, with the aim of creating buildings with real energy savings. All our full-time staff are Certified Passivhaus Designers and our group includes chartered engineers & architectural technologists. Whilst there are only 8 of us our reach is significant in the Passivhaus World: WARM are the most prolific Passivhaus consultants and Certifiers in the UK, and winners of the 2019 CIBSE Award for Building Consultancy Read more…

Junko Suetake is a Japanese architect and certified Passivhaus designer. Her design is characterized by a considered approach to comfort, climate and landscape, using locally made materials where possible. The aim is to create sustainable development, which meets user’s needs, without compromising design quality. She has produced innovative and award-winning spaces for various happy clients in the UK and Japan and believes in the efficacy of collaboration and sharing knowledge with others such as the PHT. The last 6 years have been dedicated to sustainable housing, school projects, and a low energy straw bale community building produced by Anne Thorne Read more…

We are a global design leader ranked within the Top UK 20 and within the Global Top 100 architectural practices with studios across the UK in London, Edinburgh, Guildford and Cardiff and international studios in New York, Singapore and Amsterdam. These together with strategic alliances in the Middle East and Hong Kong enable us to serve our growing international client and project base. We undertake projects across all major sectors from business space, education, residential and mixed use through to advanced technologies, hospitality, civic and cultural, transport and defence. We are signatories of the Architects Declare movement, and the RIBA Read more…