From affordable, energy-efficient housing to inspiring care homes, each of our projects tells the story of a unique challenge and its unique solution.
Tooley Foster is fully committed to providing the best possible service through all stages of the design and construction process.
For every project, no matter its size, we will provide a high degree of expertise and a competitive fee structure. We can offer strategic framework agreements with clients and are actively involved in Partnering on many projects.
Design / Engagement / Planning / Impact Management / Conservation / Built Environment / Project Management / Technical Delivery / Principal Designer / Feasibility Studies
Our range experience allows us to operate across many sectors; please follow the links below where you can find examples of our work:
We know the future is low carbon and everyone can make a difference; architects are in a unique position to make this happen: Tooley Foster have been there from the start.
Regulations are constantly changing to reflect our need to reduce energy use and carbon emissions; this means renewables on their own will not be enough. The walls, floors and roofs have to be better insulated and better designed, windows triple glazed and ventilation has to include heat recovery. All of this is standard for a Passivhaus building.
With over 10 years Passivhaus experience and 30 years experience of creating low energy buildings, we're committed to integrate Passivhaus low energy thinking within all sectors. Peter Ranken, Director of Sustainability at Tooley Foster, heads up our team of certified designers.
Gales Place in Crawley
In addition, we use PHPP to achieve the AECB Building Standard which offers performance improvements above Building Regulations standards, but with similar cost.
We were early signatories to Architects Declare and support all measures to reduce energy use to address climate change.
Accredited Passivhaus Design (APD) is our partner organisation; established to deliver Passivhaus certification, consultancy as well as explore leading Passivhaus technologies and design practice.
Together our low energy and Passivhaus projects include projects for local councils, the NHS and a range of arms length public bodies:
See our Low Energy & Passivhaus projects here.
Our designs should deliver benefits beyond those enjoyed by the communities who use them. One area we believe we really make a difference is in the design of health care related buildings & medical facilities.
Having already established a focus on healthcare with innovative designs for medical centres, hospices and surgeries; Tooley Foster Medical was launched in 2021 with new resources and expertise. Our staff are supported by Steve Muller and John Marsh, two very experienced colleagues in the design of Health facilities in the NHS, private and veterinary care sectors. Steve has worked with us as a consultant since 2005 and has nurtured specialist expertise in mental health projects. While Johns' specialism lies in laboratory projects, having worked widely on major hospital schemes, GP surgeries, MRI installations and the National Decontamination Programme. He also leads on several public sector framework projects with NHS hospitals in London and throughout the South East.
Our areas of work include:
Veterinary Hospital in Lower Langford for Bristol University
We are all sensitive to our environments, and building design impacts the health of patients in many ways. Whether by using technology to reduce disease or by more subtle changes to lighting or layout; whats clear is significantly better medical outcomes are achieved for patients where the their needs are central to building design.
Healthcare buildings are often not new. Hospitals in particular can be constrained by historic or listed building status, often requiring innovative solutions to improve healthcare standards in a way that is sympathetic to the design.
And whether for completely new developments or restoration works, implementing low energy design and construction will help meet national CO2 targets and drastically reduce a buildings running costs.
All sections scored above a 5 and given design development this means the building has the potential to be a very good public building. It could be suggested that this is an exceptional score...
We are keen to implement low energy and Passivhaus design standards and have recently completed Foleshill Health Centre in Coventry: the country’s first health centre built to Passivhaus standards.
Its opening follows four years of analysis and research by Tooley Foster, AECOM and Community Health Partnerships to establish the financial and health benefits of Passivhaus standards for medical buildings. On site for just 25 weeks, with every aspect tightly controlled and budgeted for, the Foleshill project used modular construction to keep site costs down and illustrates how factory production is no barrier to high-end, Passivhaus certification.
The building will now be used as an exemplar of good practice within the NHS. Data will continue to be collected and analysed over the next few years, providing additional evidence for investment in Passivhaus by the NHS as we near 2040.
See further examples of our extensive work in the medical & healthcare sector here.
Calcutta Road, Essex: 10 homes completed in 2020
We have a long history of being at the leading edge of developments in architecture and design. From societal benefits to new environmental standards, research and development is integral to everything we do.
The first Passivhaus medical building for the NHS
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