Ecotist green buildings

We are an eco company mainly involved in building and architecture, based in London UK. We build new houses, or do refurbishments, renovations and extensions, using sustainable building practices, whilst retaining high quality of design and finish.

If you have a new project, extension or refurbishment that you would like to make eco-friendly, please get in touch via our Contact > page.

The buildings use FSC timber (fully accredited sustainable timber) structures, recycled materials such as composite slates, photo voltaic solar panels, and many other novel features such as green (growing) roofing systems. Projects also involve a public consulation stage.

To see very interesting photos of our current project, have a look at the Image library > on the left side navigation.

Sustainable features of Ecotist homes:

• Very energy efficient buildings
• SAP values of 95 to 92 (Building Regulations 2000 Part L) - an old house might be 10-15
  
• U-values of 0.486 to 0.508
• Carbon index rating of 7.5 to 7.2 [figures refer to smaller unit and larger unit respectively]
• See definitions below
  
  
• Fully FSC timber construction (by Benfield ATT)
• Local brick cladding at front
• Thermowood heat treated sustainable softwood cladding to 3 sides.
  
  
• Solar panels (PV) x 8 Sanyo latest specification, producing 1470 kWh units of electricity per year, saving 600kg of CO2 emissions
• Green roof for biodiversity, wildlife habitat creation, with self-maintaining planted sedum, NatureMat instant greening system, all components sourced in UK
  
  
• Composite (reconstituted) slate roof
• Conservation style low profile rooflights
• All rainwater goods in PE recyclable plastic
  
  
• Recycled plastic work surfaces
• Recycled glass paving at front
• Composite paving slabs
  
  
• Windows are aluminium double glazed with low emissivity glass, and sustainable softwood polished on inside, aluminium clad on outside
  
  
• Front doors in sustainable African Idigbo wood (fully verified and certified by TRADA)
  
  
• ECOS odour and no solvent organic paint
  
  
• Energy efficient boiler
• Underfloor heating throughout
• Class A energy efficient appliances
• Dual flush WCs
  
  
• Sustainable engineered bamboo flooring
• Sustainable rubber flooring in bathrooms
• Sustainable aluminium door handles, all electrical switch plates etc
• 100% natural sisal carpet
  
  
• All fittings made in UK - locally made
• All cupboards and doors made in UK - locally made
  
  
• Increased day lighting from very large surface area windows and doors
• Energy efficient daylight simulation fluorescent lights