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Empyer Homes and the Linford Group offer complete design and build solutions which create immediate benefits for our customers. Our houses are built in an efficient manner and are completed on time and on budget. This provides financial benefits and peace of mind for developers, house builders and housing associations.

We offer a range of tailored housing solutions which exceed today’s requirements and are built to exacting specifications with the future in mind, allowing our homes to grow and develop with the people who live in them.

Essential to the fabric of the Empyer design is the use of Tradical® Hemcrete® which is a proven construction material that has numerous excellent qualities, including its ease of application. As a natural product, it is extremely environmentally friendly and highly efficient. Tradical® Hemcrete® is an innovative material, produced from UK sources, and is effectively carbon negative. Studies have shown that around 100kg of CO2 are emitted in the production of each square metre of walling using conventional materials – equating to tens of tonnes for the walls of a typical house. Tradical® Hemcrete® sequesters (or locks up) around 110kg of CO2 per m2 of wall so providing one of the best performing materials for low impact, sustainable and commercially viable construction.

Future developments in sustainability have not been forgotten. As previously mentioned the entry level Empyer home achieves CSH 4 from the outset, but the design also allows for the retrofitting of key elements to reach higher codes as and when suitable technologies become available. Therefore our developments will continue to achieve a low carbon status.

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Turnkey solution?

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The Government announced in 2006 a 10 year timetable towards a target that all new homes from 2016 must be built to zero carbon standards, to be achieved through a step by step tightening of the building regulations. Its target was to see houses built to Code Level 4 by 2013. Empyer Homes will exceed that expectation; most construction companies are challenged when building to Code Level 3 but Empyer wants to reduce carbon emissions faster than most of the current house building constructors; raw materials used and highly innovative design allow us to do just that.


A set of sustainable design principles

The Code measures the sustainability of a home against design categories, rating the ‘whole home’ as a complete package. Those familiar with building regulations, will recognise this as a major and welcome departure from current practice.


The design categories within the Code:
  • Energy/CO2
  • Pollution
  • Water
  • Health and well-being
  • Materials
  • Management
  • Surface water run-off
  • Ecology
  • Waste


A mark of quality

“The code is intended as a single national standard to guide industry in the design and construction of sustainable homes.

In this era with an urgent need to limit the effects on climate change, and with a more environmentally conscious public, there is a growing demand for more sustainable products and services. There are greater expectations for homes to offer reduced environmental impact, lower running costs and features that enhance health and wellbeing as standard.

Empyer Homes has embraced the need to demonstrate our capacity in sustainable home building and differentiate ourselves from competitors by utilising the Code for Sustainable Homes to our advantage. By offering Code 4 we seek to raise standards above what is currently available for affordable homes.