Cygnum’s most recent Passivhaus housing development got off to a flying start this week at Hansard Close, Norwich. The 10 Passivhaus units is an exciting project which marks the commencement of Norwich City Councils significant housing pipeline.
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Cygnum welcomes Dún Laoghaire Rathdown’s recent adoption of the passive house standard.  Our manufacturing facility can produce up to 2,000 passive house units  a year, or 35­40 units a week, allowing for the mass production of high quality, ultra­low energy housing. As featured in the recent publication of Passive House Plus…..

Tackle housing crisis with passive housing — Cygnum – passivehouseplus

‘It’s great to see the arrival of new bits for our automated production line today. The butterfly tables will allow us to work on the outside and inside face of our wall panels in the factory where precision and quality are paramount. They give us the option of doing more for our clients offsite. We expect them to be up and running in 3 weeks….fingers crossed!’
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The spirit of Christmas was in full swing among the staff at Cygnum Timber Frame leading up to the holidays.The company received some lovely gifts from our valued clients and suppliers.The staff decided to pool all the gifts together and hold a raffle for charity.We nominated a local charity very near to Cygnum headquarters, ‘Friends of Macroom Community Hospital’.The total amount raised from the raffle was €560.00.

Members of the Cygnum team recently presented the cheque to the nursing staff at the hospital who were thrilled with our fundraising efforts, Director of nursing Bernie Buckley commented…

“It is very much appreciated by the friends of Macroom Community Hospital and you can be assured it will be put to good use on behalf of the patients and the hospital.”

May I once again take this opportunity to say “thank you” to one and all of your colleagues.

Presenting the cheque on behalf of Cygnum are Brian Murphy and Jer Lordon to Bernie Buckley, Director of nursing.

Back row: Nora G. Lynch, Lorraine Friel, Breda Quill O Leary and Cliadhna O Leary and  Avril Murphy.

Front row: Brian Murphy,Jer Lordon, Bernie Buckley, Joan Dinneen, Anne O Mahony, Aine Ring, Siobhan Calnan, Siobhan Walsh and Ann Kingston.

The Education Estates Awards took place in Manchester yesterday evening, Cygnum are delighted The Enterprise Centre at the UEA won the Sustainable Achievement Award. It was also highly commended in the Best Project (Colleges and Universities) category. 100% of the timber frame was engineered, manufactured and installed by Cygnum . Congratulations to all involved!!

We are pleased to announce we are exhibiting at the Cork SelfBuild & Improve Your Home Show, 7 & 8 Nov in the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet.

Be sure to pay us a visit at stand F9 where we will be showcasing our latest wall systems.

Register for FREE tickets here and be in with a chance to win €5,000 to spend with our exhibitors.
https://selfbuild.ticketbud.com/cork2015?pc=CYGNUM

Cygnum opened its doors this week to accommodate a tour of its manufacturing facility to 2nd year students from the Cork School of Architecture (CCAE) which is a joint course run by the University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology.

The 2nd year students studying Building Technology were guided around our 50,000 sq ft manufacturing plant and design offices hosted by Heber Mc Mahon, Technical Sales Manager for Cygnum. Adam D’Arcy tutor and architect was delighted for his students and had this to say….

‘The students really enjoyed their visit to Cygnum and found it very interesting to see the workshop in action. A better understanding of timber frame construction takes the ‘mystery’ out of timber construction and will definitely help with their Technology projects and design projects for the rest of this year.’

We are delighted to announce we are exhibiting at the Dublin SelfBuild & Improve Your Home Show, 11-13 Sept in the Citywest. We will be showcasing our latest timber frame systems, be sure to visit us at stand B22. FREE tickets are available!!!. Register for tickets here and be in with a chance to win a €6,000 bathroom https://lnkd.in/dUFu-Crless

Congratulations to Architype on winning ‘The Best Large Project’ award at this year’s Passivhaus Trust Awards for the 2nd generation Passivhaus School, Wilkinson Primary.

Cygnum were really privileged to be part of this project, it follows on from our successful collaboration on the first Passivhaus School in the UK, Oak Meadow Primary School.

Open this link to learn more about the project.

See our case study page for more information on our Passivhaus Projects.