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Townhouse Extension in Broughton, Milton Keynes

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Jun 20, 2019
2 min

Townhouse Extension in Broughton, Milton Keynes

With Milton Keynes being a relatively new city; it includes amongst its housing stock a large number of townhouses. They are a popular choice for many housing developers due to them still offering 3-4 bedrooms to potential customers but on a considerably smaller footprint. Therefore, more houses can be packed into housing developments. Whilst they are popular with the younger generation who find the living space works for them sufficiently, further down the line it can became

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Connect Your Home to Your Outside Space with a Garden Room

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Apr 29, 2019
3 min

Connect Your Home to Your Outside Space with a Garden Room

Garden Rooms are often thought of as being a separate cabin style building down the end of your garden; which you would typically use as an office, craft room, a spare bedroom or as a separate summer only additional living space. However, did you know that a Garden Room can also refer to a fixed structure that is part of your house? This can be from designing a new structure to extend your existing living space, or by altering a conservatory into a more usable room that conne

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Green Design, Green Upkeep: Building and Maintaining Your Environmentally-Friendly Home

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Mar 27, 2019
4 min

Green Design, Green Upkeep: Building and Maintaining Your Environmentally-Friendly Home

Residing in an energy efficient building not only lowers your utility bills, but can add an average of 14% to your home’s value, meaning it is not only good for the environment, but also beneficial for you as the homeowner. When setting out to build a green home, there are several factors to take into account, but the most important one to keep in mind is that a green home needs to be treated as such, from inception and throughout its lifetime. The first, and perhaps most imp

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Team Trip to Kingspan to Learn about Timber Frame Housing

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Mar 17, 2019
4 min

Team Trip to Kingspan to Learn about Timber Frame Housing

It is always very productive and a change of scene; to get the Building Tectonics team out of the office together to learn more about particular areas that we work on. So, on Thursday 14th March we all went on a trip to Kingspan Potton, based in Great Gransden, Bedfordshire who specialise in fabricated timber frame housing. The walls, floors and roof of the houses are fabricated in large panels in their factory and are then taken to site and bolted together to construct a ho

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Re-modelling of Woburn Sands Cottage Interior

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Feb 24, 2019
3 min

Re-modelling of Woburn Sands Cottage Interior

Whilst some clients have a design idea visualised in their heads from day one of how they would like to extend or alter their properties; equally there are other clients who contact us to ask for our help. They are often unsure what they require and need us to come up with potential design concepts to make their homes work better and more efficiently for them. This was the situation with our lovely clients in Woburn Sands; who contacted us on recommendation from a number of p

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Feb 15, 2019
2 min

Spotlight on the Team – Ina Cicu

Ina Cicu – Design Technologist Ina joined the Building Tectonics Architectural Practice team almost five years ago as a Design Technologist. Having an Interior Design degree background, she was always fascinated by buildings and architecture. However, it wasn’t until she started to work at Building Tectonics that she discovered the back stage of this wonderful creative process. Due to her colleagues’ patience and professionalism, she has learned to redesign client’s houses; t

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A Day in the Life of an Architectural Practice

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Feb 11, 2019
3 min

A Day in the Life of an Architectural Practice

Have you ever wondered what it is like to work in an Architectural Practice for the day and envisaged all the dreaming and designing that goes on? Well now is your chance as we get inside the head of our Chief Designer, Tony Keller to find out what a normal day entails for him and the Building Tectonics team from start to finish. Tony says “A normal day at Building Tectonics encompasses a number of different tasks but generally starts with a team briefing (accompanied by a cu

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New Year, New Home (Without Having To Move)

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Jan 20, 2019
4 min

New Year, New Home (Without Having To Move)

It’s that time of year when all you see online are countless blogs talking about New Year, New You and how to get the body of your dreams whilst improving your health. Whilst we obviously aren’t going down that route; as we are architects and not fitness experts, we do instead want to simply say the words ‘New Home’… To most people when you say the words ‘New Home’ they automatically think of upping sticks and moving house to get their dream home; but you don’t need to take s

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Jan 17, 2019
3 min

Spotlight on the Team – Josh Lockwood

Josh Lockwood – Design Technologist Josh originally started with Building Tectonics 6 years ago on a week’s work experience; and after being made a job offer, he never left. However, as he had only just started his Sixth Form study, it was a tough decision as he was doing well at school but unsure what he wanted to do for a job. He realised the work experience suited his skill set, accepted the offer and has never looked back. After joining, he decided to attend college once

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Apr 27, 2018
2 min

Rear Extension in Great Holm

We had worked with these clients before, and having successfully remodelled their previous house they had decided that it was time to move on. The house that they consequently bought was much larger, but the layout didn’t work for them. When there is so much to be done in the way of re-decorating it can stress some people out, but not these clients. If you can figure out the points that are wrong with the architecture of the house and how to rectify them it’s worth doing, eve

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Jul 1, 2016
1 min

Another satisfied client.

Feedback is so important to us, as a company we strive to give the best service we can. The feedback we receive helps us to do that by showing us what it is we’re doing right, and what aspects we need to build upon. We thought we’d share a recent testimonial from one of our clients. “First of all, we absolutely love our extension, it transforms our house! Everything feels more spacious and less ‘boxy’ – its impact is bigger than expected. Thank you so much for your help with

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Jun 10, 2016
2 min

Overheating

We have only just taken off the winter duvet and turned off our heating and people are complaining that they are too hot. I have to say that it is no wonder that some houses are overheating when you look at how much south facing glass, rooflights and conservatories people have installed. We always remind our clients of this potential problem when we see the design developing but I guess for some clients it is hard to take this seriously in the depths of winter when we have no

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Apr 8, 2016
2 min

House remodel in Woburn Sands.

Our clients had bought a bungalow in a very sought after area of Woburn Sands. They had carefully assessed what they wished to achieve with the alterations to the bungalow, in brief this consisted of creating an open plan downstairs where they could eat and entertain guests, and create a first-floor bedroom in the loft space. On analysis, it was clear that not much of the roof structure could be kept, and so they vacated the whole house for a few months to allow the roof to b

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More photos of the refurbishment in Milton Keynes

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Dec 29, 2015
1 min

More photos of the refurbishment in Milton Keynes

We posted about a house refurbishment in Milton Keynes the other day, and that has had a lot of attention from people asking to see more photos of the project. #Balcony #Kitchen #Project #rooflight

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Dec 25, 2015
1 min

New commission near Leighton Buzzard.

Our clients had heard about our reputation in respect of renovating and modernising houses. They have a really nice bungalow in a fantastic position near Leighton Buzzard, on the face of it what the house lacks is primarily decent sized bedrooms and kerb appeal. When we say kerb appeal in this instance, it isn’t just the initial view but also the journey to the front door. For its location, it could also do with being a little larger. We find that with this type of project a

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Dec 5, 2014
2 min

Planning ahead.

As the title suggests, today’s blog is going to be about the importance of pre-planning a project. Not just a housing project, but any day-to-day project/task which you may have. As it’s December, and Christmas is making its way here (at quite an alarming rate in my opinion), ’tis the season to be wrapping. This is a really good example for us to get our point across; wrapping Christmas presents can take up a good amount of time during the winter months! If you are anything l

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Jan 27, 2014
2 min

Not everything is so straightforward…

Architects and architectural firms do not always have a ‘smooth ride’ with the project on which they are working. Sometimes, architectural firms get given a a job for which they have no survey notes, which means no measurements for building features (such as where a particular window is, and how long a wall is, where abouts the doors are etc.). There are ways around this, but they may take a fair amount of time to find, and the particular method which we used only works if th

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Nov 1, 2013
1 min

New eco house video.

We have created a better video of an eco house we have mentioned before in another post on this blog. We are very happy to have been chosen to work on this project, many architects would kill to have it (although not literally!). We are currently attempting to get planning permissions on this project. This project is very different to our usual projects due to the nature of the design specifications which need to be met to reach the higher levels on the Code of Sustainable Ho

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Aug 21, 2013
1 min

Bluebirds Nursing Home Project

PJ Care Ltd in Bletchley, Milton Keynes commissioned Building Tectonics Ltd to design and project manage a 22 bed high dependency registered mental nursing home. The internal design of the nursing home had to be carefully designed and precautions had to be taken into account when building works were ongoing (for example – locking the doors to rooms in development). The design was done with the full involvement of the Buckinghamshire Health Authority , The Alzheimer’s society

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Aug 12, 2013
1 min

Two Bungalows for the Clarkson Bros

Building Tectonics were commissioned to produce architectural designs and gain the necessary approvals for two bungalows in the rear garden of a house in Bletchley. Both properties are very popular and have been completed, they could be sold many times over. The bungalows are quite deceivingly large with two bedrooms at first floor level and a third bedroom/study on the ground floor. The light and airy feeling they engender internally is complimented by the way they sit withi

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01908 366 000

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Company Information

VAT Number: 178 8635 48

Limited Company Number: 1929627 Cardiff

Registered Address: Tecton Centre, Church Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK2 2NY.

01908 366 000

Read our blog to find out about our architectural services, and learn about architecture, construction, and design.

Company Information

VAT Number: 178 8635 48 Limited Company Number: 1929627 Cardiff Registered Address: Tecton Centre, Church Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK2 2NY.

VAT Number: 178 8635 48

Limited Company Number: 1929627 Cardiff

Registered Address: Tecton Centre, Church Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK2 2NY.