Eco Arc Passive House Architects
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Eco Arc is an award winning RIBA chartered ecological architects practice committed to the ethos of Passive House / Passivhaus architecture, eco house design and sustainable building design throughout the UK for over 30 years.


We design beautiful, healthy, green, sustainable and Passive House architecture built to the highest possible ecological low energy standards. Our architecture fits sensitively into its surroundings whilst fully responding to the needs and aspirations of our clients. Passivhaus buildings reduce energy use and provide good indoor air quality and comfortable temperatures throughout the year with exceptionally low running costs. More about Passivhaus> As green architects, we offer a personal service for a diverse range of high quality new build, refurbishment and conservation projects in both the public and private sectors throughout England and Scotland.

If you need an architect for a new eco design project of any kind, whether Passive House, a new build nearly zero energy building, a retrofit or a renovation conservation project of an existing building, please do get in touch or give us a call on 01539 822822. We can take you through the design, planning and construction stages of creating a really beautiful and comfortable, low energy healthy building.

Services
  • Eco Arc provides a comprehensive RIBA based professional architect and Passivhaus design service
  • which includes:Feasibility Studies
  • Environmental Design Studies and Business Plans. Covering outline sketch design proposals
  • land appraisal
  • funding / organisational option plans and business plans with cost estimates.
Service areas
UK
Company awards
  • Brief Summary of Eco Arc’s Awards
  • Passive House Trust UK Housing Award : Winner Lancaster Cohousing Project
  • Daily Telegraph-Ecological House Of The Year Award.
  • Fine Homes Magazine—Environmental House Of The Year Design Award.
  • United Nations—Best Practice Award – Findhorn Designation for Environmental Design.
  • Department of the Environment & British Research Establishment—Best Environmental Project
  • Built It Magazine -Environmental House Of The Year Design Award.
  • National Lotteries Environmental Award. York Environmental Centre.
  • Union of International Architects & American Institute of Architects. Sustainable Community Solutions Design Spectus Detail Design Competition—First Place.
  • Solid Fuel Design Competition—First Place.
  • Royal Institute of British Architects, Manchester Society of Architects -Scholarship Award.
  • Bolton Hope & Gass Memorial Trust Scholarship Award.
  • Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland – John Maclaren Fellowship Award.
  • Wiggins Teape International Design Competition to Save our Rural Heritage Winner.
  • Winston Churchill Study Fellowship Award.
  • The Reuse of Derelict Urban Areas Design Competition—Special Commendation.
  • Shell UK. Conservation Design Competition—First Place.
  • Architectural Press Book Prize —First Place.
  • Amersham Field Study Centre Design Competition—First Place.
  • Yorkshire Press, Best Environmental Business Of The Year Award – Finalist.
  • Energy 21 European Solar Design Award—Highly Commended Community Project.
  • Yorkshire Forward, European Regional Development and Single Regeneration Budget Funding Award Energy 21 European Solar Design Award—Winner of Private House Category.
  • Energy 21 European Solar Design Award—Winner of Community Project Category
  • Royal Horticultural Society New Library & Education Centre Design Competition—First Place
  • Essex Wild Life Trust Abberton Interpretation Visitor Centre Design Competition—First Place
  • North Yorkshire Building Control Design & Construction Award – Langton Highly Commended
  • National Tourist Board Best New Comer Award—First Place for the Locton Green Beacon YHA.
  • Schumacher Society Annual Award—Nominee Finalist
  • North Yorkshire Moors National Park Authority Design Award: Highly Commended Runswick Bay
  • Queens Award Sustainable Development. The Queen on the Prime Minster’s Recommendation
  • The International Green Apple Award for The Environment Architecture & Heritage –
  • Yorkshire LABC Built in Quality Award: Winner Best Sustainable Building, Gibson Mill – Local Authority
  • Museum & Heritage Design Excellence Award: Use of Renewable Technology – Independent
  • National Wood Awards: Winner Best Use of British Native Timber at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Pro Yorkshire Award—Second Place for Green Beacon Youth Hostel.
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors / Building Magazine '' Best UK Sustainable Building'' Winner
  • Royal Institute of British Architects White Rose Award for Sustainability. Winner Gibson Mill
  • Yorkshire & Humber Micro-generation Awards. Best Public Building 'Highly Commended'.
  • UK Sustainable Building of the Year—Winner Building Magazine, BRE ECSC RICS Wrap etc
  • The International Green Apple Award for Sustainable Tourism Project – Locton: House Of Commons
  • RICS Pro Yorkshire Environmental Design Award: Gibson Mill Highly Commended
  • Essex Wild Life Trust Gunners Park Heritage Centre Design Competition —First Place
  • Essex Wild Life Trust Belfair’s Park Resource Centre Design Competition —First Place
  • Yorkshire Post Property Awards for Sustainability—First Place Worfolk Cottage
  • Rural Yorkshire Awards / Dales Magazine—Finalist Worfolk Cottage
  • The International Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice: Winner: House Of Commons
  • Royal Institute of British Architects White Rose Award for Sustainability: Winner
  • Royal Institute of British Architects White Rose Bronze Architecture Award: Winner
  • Legacy Award For Sustainability: Yorkshire & Humber Construction Awards: RHS Bramall Learning Centre
  • UK Sustainability Award For Project of the Year: Winner Bramall Learning Centre
  • Considerate Constructors Bronze Award: Winner Bramall Learning Centre
  • RICS Pro Yorkshire Environmental Design Award: Finalist
  • Constructing Excellence Award Bramall Learning Centre
  • Structural Engineering Excellence Awards: Commended: Institute of Structural Engineers
  • Structural Engineering—National Design Awards: Commendation Bramall Learning Centre
  • County Publications Rural Restoration Awards: Winner Howsham Mill
  • Big Lottery Environmental Award. Bothel Village Hall.
  • York Guild of Building, Team Craftsmanship Award: Stephen Pickering at Howsham Mill
  • Westmorland / Cumbria Green Business Of The Year Award – Finalist.
  • Murray Armor Award 2013 National Self Build Association Winner Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project
  • RIBA Sustainable Design Award 2014: Finalist: Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project.
  • Observer Magazine Community Energy Award: Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project.
  • GAGA Sustainability Award 2014: Winner: Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project
  • Green Building Project of the Year: Business Green Leaders Award . LCHP.
  • UK Community Energy Awards: Winner 2014 Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project.
  • Build It Award (Best collective or self build project): Winner Lancaster Passive Cohousing Project
  • UK Community Energy Award 2014 (Energy generation project)
  • Business Green Leaders Award (Green building project)
  • Lancaster Civic Society/Chamber of Commerce Design Award
  • Transition City Lancaster Award (Resilience award)
  • The Green Apple National Gold Award Winner
  • English Heritage Angels Award For Best Restoration Of An Industrial Building Winner Howsham Mill
  • Heritage Heroes” award from the Heritage Alliance: Winner: Howsham Mill
  • Georgian Group Architectural Awards: Reuse of a Georgian Building: Category Finalist.
  • Best Eco Architecture & Design Firm 2016 Innovation Excellence Award: Carbon Neutral Developments
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Address
High Fold Kentmere
LA8 9JP Kendal Cumbria
United Kingdom
+44-1539822822 ecoarc.co.uk