EARTHA Service Directory

EARTHA seeks to bring together professionals and individuals with experience of earth construction and design to create a pool of knowledge and services unique in East Anglia .

Whether you need advice or technical support concerning a historic building, or thinking about your own new earth build, maybe you could find some guidance here.

There are a wide range of earth building services, these include:

  • Architecture
  • Structural Engineering
  • Surveying
  • Earth block manufacture
  • Courses in earth building
  • Energy assessments

The Service Directory is an available resource if you would like to find out about relevant earth building services in East Anglia.  If you are in need of further assistance, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page, where we will try to assist you to a service the best we can.  Each business within this directory takes responsibility for their own advice or service given.

Add your Services

If you would also like to advertise your profession and services on the EARTHA website, please consider adding your company details to the list below, where we highlight practices involving earth-building and natural construction materials.

The Service Directory is a great resource that aims to support our local businesses, and to help spread our earth building community a little wider!  With your help, we would like to encourage accessibility to our region’s heritage building techniques and conservation, and to be able to promote more new earth construction as well. 

A yearly advertising subscription starts at £25, the fee is dependent on how many persons are within your company.  A description of your services and contact information can then be added to our listings.

  • 1 – 3 employees in total    £25 per year
  • 5 – 20 employees.                £50
  • 21+ employees.                   £100

For further information please fill out the contact form at the bottom of this page, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

SERVICES (A-Z)

Built of Earth

Colin Williams Mphil, C Build E, FCABE

Director of WCK Design and Conservation Ltd trading as Built of Earth.

Architectural and Energy Consultant, Earth Building Specialist.

Colin is a chartetered building engineer, chartered surveyor an accredited energy assessor.  His services include:

  • Architectural design specialising in low-energy buildings.
  • Structural design particularly using natural materials.
  • Energy assessment and advice.

Built of Earth specialises in the design, repair, renovation and conversion of new and existing earth buildings including: cob, clay lump, Adobe, rammed earth and wattle and daub. Over the years, Built of Earth and its parent company WCK Design and Conservation Ltd. have been involved in scores of existing earth buildings together with new earth extensions, and other low carbon, sustainable designs.

Contact:

 

27 Richmond Place

Lying, Norwich.

Norfolk.

 

Tel:  01603 879593

 

colin@builtofearth.co.uk

https://builtofearth.co.uk/about/

 

Hudson Architects

Anthony Hudson MA Cantab, DipArch, (PCL), RIBA, ARB, FRSA.  Founder and Creative Director at Hudson Architects.

Sustainable Design Experts I Norfolk Architects

We deliver beautiful low-energy buildings with a strong sense of place.

Hudson Architects is a leading design studio based in Norwich and founded on the ambition to pursue architecture that combines innovative and exciting design with a keen awareness of context and environmental responsibility.

Our response to all projects is characterised by close attention to rich spatial and material qualities, consideration of our buildings’ impact on the environment and a determination to address the ways in which users and clients occupy the spaces we design and reduce their operating costs.

Contact:

37 St Andrews Street

Norwich

Norfolk

NR2 4TP

Tel:  01603 766 220

info@hudsonarchitects.co.uk

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Modece Architects

Modece (Modern Design Centre) is an architectural practice with a strong focus on sustainability and social impact. Our work spans architectural design, master planning, residential and community projects, as well as research into material innovation.

We specialise in deep green architecture – using materials with the lowest possible embodied energy and intergrating carbon neutral systems. Our designs respond to seasonal weather variations and climate change through simple yet effective principles such as orientation, mass, solar shading and natural ventilation.  We build with natural materials, including hemp and natural fibre insulations, to create fully breathable buildings that promote a healthier living environment.

Our office is based in the Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket, a Grade II listed 17th-century coaching inn which we restored and adapted during 2020-2021.

Contact:

4 The Old Fox Yard
Ipswich Street
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 1AB

Tel:  01284 830085 

studio@modece.com

https://www.modece.com

MSC Naturally Ltd.

 

Malcolm Carrington MD.  Director.  Confor and ASBP Member.

MSC Naturally are specialist contractors who investigate historic structures in East Anglia, including earth built structures.  They produce natural building materials to restore and renew buildings where necessary to establish a breathable structure.

MSC Naturally manufactures and supplies daubs, earth blocks, slaked lime putty, natural hydraulic limes, oak timber, laths and linseed oil paints. Many other natural building products.

MSC also produces BETTABLOK, a interlocking, mortar free earth block, which has been awarded ‘Most Innovative Sustainable Building Material Manufacturer 2025 – UK by the online Build Magazine.  They are also up for consideration as a ‘Green Hero’ by Kevin McCloud at Grand Designs.

Contact:

Tel:  01487 840305 / 07436 795028

www.mscnaturally.com

malcolm@mscnaturally.com

Simon Steele Assoc. RICS

 

Simon is a Building Pathologist and Surveyor in Listed Buildings and Traditional Construction Skills in Norfolk and Suffolk.  He can help with:

  • Damp Investigation
  • Structural Defects
  • Design and Specification using CAD to provide plans and Structural Detail Drawings.
  • Estimating cost of repairs and construction.
  • Listed Building Consent.
  • Advice and Training for Builders, Self Builders and DIY.

Now retired from active building, Simon has specialised in the repair and maintenance of Clay Lump and Oak Frame Buildings.  Simon can advise on:

  • Dealing with damp and condensation and structural defects.
  • Clay Lump Repair and Maintenance.
  • Replacement of cement render with Lime Renders and Plasters to enable traditional structures to permeable.
  • Oak Frame Repairs.  Wattle and Daub.
  • Specialist in situ Repair of Traditional Joinery.

Simon offers a Full Drawing and Estimating Service to provides you with Plans and Estimates of any building work you propose.

He can also provide fully costed estimates from your own drawings and provide Specifications and 3D images.

Simon can create drawings for Building Regulations application and help with Listed Building applications.

Contact Us

If you have an enquiry regarding a service concerned with earth building or conservation, please fill out this contact form, and we will try to assist the best we can.  Please leave as much information as possible so we can deal with your enquiry appropriately, and add any other contact info you feel necessary.

If you are a business that would like to be added to our listings, feel free to use the contact form for further correspondence.

A member of the EARTHA Team will be able to get back to you as quick as we can! 

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