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InHaus Design Ltd provides an independent design service specialising in contemporary SIP/timber architecture and timber structure. With experience in SIP and timber frame construction, the focus is on producing appropriate solutions which bring together the requirements of the client, engineer and frame designer.

InHaus Design Ltd will work as part of your design team early on in the process to draft a SIP/timber frame strategy. This allows the project to take into account some of the key issues with timber frame and therefore facilitate the exploration of design alternatives at an early stage. This approach helps to reduce the amount of drawing changes later on in the project, as well as increase the quality of the solution.

Once the basic strategy/design for the frame has been established a set of accurate general arrangement drawings can be produced. These would normally communicate the extent of the SIP/timber frame, its relationship to other elements, timber sizes and basic setting out dimensions. These drawings can be released to the relevant parties for an initial approval, including a structural appraisal from the engineer. This procedure allows feedback and changes to be more easily absorbed into the drawings before the detailed workshop drawings are produced.

With the general arrangement drawings amended and approved by all parties, the workshop information can be added. This would include detailed dimensions, geometry layout and additional information. These drawings can then be issued for final approval before fabrication of the panels.

In some cases it may be desirable to produce more information than is shown on the frame drawings. This would be true if joint details and specifications are required for a traditionally jointed frame or if the project involves unusual or new jointing methods. If steel is used in the joints or frame it is often useful to have the geometry and layout of these elements produced so that their critical relationship to the timber is observed.

Complex building geometry can produce unusual timber shapes, especially when curved elements are involved. In these cases elemental drawings for the timber components are often the best way of presenting this information.

The design of the SIP/timber frame or whole building can be loosely or accurately modelled in 2D to produce images in a variety of media for design exploration, communication and approval. These would include high quality still images. Still image media can be supplied in digital format or on full colour prints. If the frame design is sufficiently advanced at the time the model is produced, this model can be used as the basis for the next stages in the process.

InHaus Design Ltd are currently the only an established and recognised Kingspan TEK® Building System Designers. We are also regularly used by Kingspan Off-Site for the technical design of schemes using the system. We both have been designing schemes using the system for a number of years, having been originally trained by Kingspan.