images from cloughjordan sustainable village (September 2009)
Timberframe with lime-hemp by Ecobuild Ireland	a view from the distance	38x90mm timberframe by Irish Eco homes. Plastic shuttering partly in place ready for pouring of 290mm of Hemp-crete
Scandinavian Homes Ltd -Passive house
No shading from the sun with short protective roof overhang. It is general knowledge that good ecological design provide built-in shading from the high summer sun. Is it incompetence or lack of interest in sustainable design that drives the Tipperary planning office to insist on this type of detail?
Partition progressing on the 14th work-day		Exterior near completion on the 14th work-day

(late August 2009)
construction of the infrastructure (Feb 2008)	four houses under construction		foundation for solar and shed
directioning of the stream (Feb 2008)	construction of four houses	terrace of three houses	chipboiler house

Our first project		The Village is progressing
It is the 25th of August 2009, a day we had all been looking forward to for a long time, the day we would erect the first Scandinavian Homes passive house in the eco-village of Cloughjordan in County Tipperary. At 07.00 the house kit arrived. Our erection-team from Galway headed by Peter Flaherty and John Goaley and		The Village is finally moving which is great, and about time. There have been many delays in the planning process and some village members have left the project over the years of this phase. However, the planning phase is completed and the building phase is progressing. We at Scandinavian Homes had hoped to build many of the houses here, our passive and super-passive houses should be ideal in an eco-village. But unfortunately, the requirement to connect to the common district heating system is not so logical for passive houses. Passive houses need so little energy, but still have to pay towards the massive capital costs for the large central system of the Eco-village... Read more here...
their experienced carpenters had already been on site the evening before to make sure that all preparations were ready.As always, the foundation was already in place, and in perfect shape, all thanks to James Kearney and his team... Read more here...

August 2009, our first house in the new sustainable village in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary was constructed in our factory in the beginning of August and has been erected on Site 104 in late August 2009. It is now being fitted out. This house is from our Stockholm model range, called Stockholm 208. It is a two-storey, passive timber construction, view 3D images below and a link to a gallery showing images of the construction process...