A Cost Effective Passive Foundation Solution

Enabling works and Foundations represent the first and most exciting sign that your home is actually getting off the drawing board. These early stages of your build represent some of the most challenging times for the self-builder. You’ll be thinking about enabling works, services, foundations, slab construction – all of the decisions that need making, and works that need doing, before you can book your timber frame erection.

Innovate Build Greener Passive Foundation With this in mind, Innovate Build Greener have developed a Passive Foundation slab which is suitable for any Innovate Build Greener project, and of course, offers the huge benefit of both your foundation slab and your timber frame coming from the same provider.

Whatever Innovate Build Greener Timber Frame solution you choose, our passive foundation system is a simple and cost-effective method to bypass many of the problems encountered with groundworks.

Passive Foundations

The passive foundation is a PassiveHaus certified system, designed to thermally encase the foundation in high performance expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation, which delivers one of the lowest U-Values currently available at 0.105W/m2K.

A localised point in a building,where there is a break in the continuity or a penetration of the insulation is called a cold or thermal bridge.

These bridges are most commonly found at wall and floor junctions.