{"id":752,"date":"2015-03-09T19:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=752"},"modified":"2015-03-09T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T19:36:48","slug":"requests-for-tender-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Requests for Tender Issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

The detailed drawings for the new house and the outbuildings have been mostly<\/em> finished since Christmas, as have the detailed specification documents. There were just a couple of technical details\u00a0needing attention before issuing the tender package – and then there was the question of who should be on the shortlist of contractors that\u00a0get invited to tender for the build.<\/p>\n

The outbuildings are throughly conventional in design and construction and in some ways the main house is too – the basic structure is a block-work cavity wall (albeit one with a very wide cavity) – and many of the less conventional features (like the curved roof) will be outsourced to specialist subcontractors. However, aspects such as the very high degree of air-tightness which is critical to the thermal performance of the main house\u00a0are fundamental to the success of the building and not yet that common in East Midlands construction. (Passivhaus requires a level of air tightness more than 15 times better than current UK building regulations.)<\/p>\n

In some ways it would be best\u00a0to use a contractor who has previous\u00a0experience of Passivhaus or near-Passivhaus standards of construction, and in other ways it would be ideal to use someone local who is used to working with local suppliers and sub-contractors. Hopefully\u00a0there are some contractors who are both local and who have relevant experience, and are available in the right timescales, and offer\u00a0good value for money…<\/p>\n

Justin Smith and his team have worked up a shortlist of contractors who they think would be suitable and the requests for tender went out today. It will be interesting to see what responses come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The detailed drawings for the new house and the outbuildings have been mostly finished since Christmas, as have the detailed specification documents. There were just a couple of technical details\u00a0needing attention before issuing the tender package – and then there … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contractors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}