Sustainability
About
At Hyem Frames, we believe sustainability starts with intelligent design and efficient use of materials. Our panelised timber frame systems combine engineered EGGER EcoBox studs, wood fibre insulation and offsite manufacturing to reduce waste, lower embodied carbon and improve building performance.
By using timber more efficiently and delivering highly insulated, airtight building fabric, we help create homes that are comfortable, durable and energy efficient, using fewer resources both during construction and throughout the building's life.
We believe sustainability is about more than achieving compliance targets. It's about creating buildings that use fewer resources, consume less energy and provide lasting value for future generations.
Sustainability Benefits
Sustainability extends beyond construction. The combination of engineered timber framing, wood fibre insulation and robust airtightness detailing creates a highly efficient building envelope. By reducing heat loss and improving energy performance, the system lowers operational energy demand, helping occupants reduce both running costs and carbon emissions over the lifetime of the building.
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High-Performance Fabric Reduces Operational Carbon
Buildings should be considered material banks for the future. The Hyem Frames system uses predominantly timber-based components that can be separated, repaired, reused or recycled at the end of a building's life. This supports circular economy principles and reduces reliance on construction methods that create difficult-to-recycle mixed-material waste streams.
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Designed for Disassembly and Recycling
The EGGER EcoBox stud uses an engineered box-section design that requires significantly less timber than a conventional solid timber stud while maintaining structural performance. By using material only where it is needed, the system reduces resource consumption, lowers embodied carbon and helps conserve valuable forestry resources for future generations.
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Uses Less Timber and Raw Materials
The Hyem Frames system is designed to minimise material waste both in the factory and on site. Wood fibre insulation is installed using a blown-in process, meaning only the quantity required to fill each panel is used. This reduces offcuts, improves material efficiency and helps divert waste from landfill compared with traditional insulation installation methods. expectations.
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Less Waste During Construction
Sustainablity Downloads
RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge
The RIBA has developed voluntary performance targets for operational energy use, water use and embodied carbon.1 These performance targets form the basis of the 2030 Climate Challenge which the RIBA has been developed in consultation with other professional UK construction bodies. The performance targets align with the future legislative horizon and set out a challenging but achievable trajectory to realise the significant reductions necessary by 2030 in order to have a realistic prospect of achieving net zero carbon for the whole UK building stock by 2050.
UK Green Building Council Design for Disassembly
Design for Disassembly (DfD) promotes buildings that can be adapted, repaired, dismantled and reused rather than demolished. Timber frame construction is particularly well suited to this approach because components can often be separated and recovered at the end of a building's life.
The Future Homes Standard
The Future Homes Standard is shaping the next generation of UK housing by requiring significant reductions in operational carbon emissions and improved building fabric performance.
Relevance to Hyem Frames
The fabric-first approach, airtight construction and high levels of insulation within the Hyem Frames system are closely aligned with the direction of travel established by the Future Homes Standard.