St Katherine’s field is a development of 7 sustainable and energy efficient properties situated at the edge of the Malvern Hills on a Greenfield site. At the specification and design stage IED worked closely with their architects, Architype, who specialise in the design of highly energy efficient and ecologically sensitive buildings based upon PassivHaus principles. They created the ‘HerefordHaus’ system of 1) An effective thermal envelope 2) Reduction of thermal bridging 3) Air tightness 4) MVHR ventilation systems.
