Benfield ATT
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SOLUTIONS
Traditional & Modern | Car Barns & Penthouses | Remodel & New Build | Trusses & Components
Helping Construction Professionals Develop Sustainably & Profitably
Founded in 1995 to manufacture Swedish homes for Scandia Hus, ATT
(Advanced Timber Technology) was bought in 2002 by Prof. Dr. Michael
Benfield. Since then his focus on end user needs has delivered highly
effective, quality buildings for projects large & small plus solutions for
difficult sites, like soft ground, steep slopes and flood risk areas.
Today Benfield ATT takes an analytical and technical design approach
to DfMA (Design for Manufacture & Assembly), blending their extensive
and rather unique knowledge of all forms of timber structure, building
science, regulations, and state of the art products, with each client’s
conceptual and functional requirements.
Value Engineering is at the heart of the firms approach to delivering
some of the UK’s greenest and most innovative housing. “By focusing
on the various ‘functions’ of a client’s building and its components, we
aim to identify and remove unnecessary costs while at the same time
maintaining - even enhancing - its performance.” explains Benfield.
Hybrid Projects incorporating different timbers, systems and crafts are
a speciality, with short run batch production appropriately geared to
individual development outputs, rather than long ‘me too’ assembly line
‘little boxes”.
Working closely with architects, building designers, engineers and
quantity surveyors, Benfield ATT helps select and specify those
materials and components which are most functionally appropriate
and cost effective. Extending this into waste reduction, recycling
and lean manufacture encourages the delivery of high quality Green
Buildings that save both time and costs on site. All of this not only
enhances client’s projects, it also helps make Benfield ATT one of the
most competitive full service timber engineering design and build
firms in the UK.
Professional Partnerships are favoured to deliver greatest benefit to
industry and end users. While happy to engage in ‘one off’ projects,
Benfield ATT prefers long term ‘partnering’ style arrangements with
construction professionals & developers. This can include Joint Venture
arrangements which may be of interest to land owners and those who
wish to fund, say, housing schemes, but lack the technical knowledge
and industry experience necessary to make them successful. In such
cases Benfield believes that his firms comprehensive team approach can
be highly valuable
GREEN BUILDINGS need really effective building envelopes, which
need careful, collaborative design from the outset of each and every
project, explains Prof Benfield. “There is a crucial need to deliver highly
energy efficient structures with optimum levels of insulation, minimal
thermal transmission and appropriate airtightness for floors, walls,
roofs, windows and doors along with SMART construction and building
operating solutions.”