3rd January 2012
Happy New Year to all of our clients and consultants
13th December 2011
Tom and Paul attend the SEDA show and tell in Glasgow. Tom presented slides of our more recent work
24th November 2011
We are looking for a talented Conservation Architect.
2nd November 2011
Emma passed her Masters in Architectural conservation. Hooray :)
7th October 2011
Tom is speaking at the Soft Capping Seminar on the 19th October 2011. If you would like to book a place at this event, you can do so by following the link below.
http://www.historics-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage/conservation/
conservation-conferences-and-seminars/softcappingseminar.htm
5th October 2011
Letham Park Shelter opened today.
26th September 2011
Tom recently attended the Scottish Green Awards 2011 held in Glasgow. To his amazement we won the prize for Best Green Community-Initiative (sponsored by SEPA) as Director of the North Howe Transition Toun.
4th June 2011
Tom presented to HRH at Princes Regeneration Trust event. "I think this has to be about the nicest room I have ever spoken in so thanks to the Princes
Regeneration Trust for inviting me to speak to you here today...."
3-4th June 2011
Paul attended the SEDA conference which this year took place in New Lanark at the World Heritage site.
1st June 2011
The Arc office spent a few hours working on the Letham Park Shelter to gain a valuable perspective on earth building in scotland.
16th May 2011
Paul, Emma, Tess and others attend small scale lime burning project day with Historic Scotland at their yard in Stirling.
10th May 2011
We have moved to our newly refurbished office in Cupar. This provides a bigger and better working environment, as well as being more conveniently located for access by train. By employing an exemplary environmental approach to the project, the move will half Arc’s carbon emissions while increasing our capacity by 50%. Directions and contact details are here
6th May 2011
Arc are moving to our own freshly refurbished new office located in cupar. Map and address here
17th March 2010
Completion and Publication!
Arc has developed 6 case studies for homeowner energy efficiency measures, with the Big Green Tarbert project. This ranges from free and easy do through to major overhauls and covers a range of typical house types including 'hard to treat' types. They are published here
17th January 2010
Developing Solutions for 'hard to treat' housing upgrade
Arc has been invited to deliver a paper on Arc's work at the 'Sustainable Uist' Conference at the end of January. This looks at energy efficiency and carbon saving programmes for typical Scottish housing, in particular, hard to treat properties, that are common house types not covered by standard government initiatives.
2nd December 2010
Arc wins the VIBES
Arc scooped two prestigious environmental business awards at the 2010 Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) Awards ceremony in Glasgow.
Arc won the Best Service Award and the Scottish Government sponsored VIBES Special
Award for Energy Efficiency, which aims to reward businesses that have made the biggest steps in cutting their energy use and CO2 emissions.
13th September 2010
Meadowside St. Paul’s Church is a fine sandstone church dating
from 1845, extended in the 20th C. to provide ancillary facilities. Now
on site!
27th August 2010
The office trip to scotlands housing expo was a great day out and an interesting opportunity to see the works of other architects
17th August 2010
We have an immediate vacancy for a conservation architect to work on an interesting range of projects. Please see our employment opportunities page in the 'about us' section for more information.
18 May 2010
Arc are delighted to be helping the community of West Wemyss to regenerate their community as part of the Big lottery fund and BBC Village SOS program.
13th May 2010
We are pleased to have been presented with another award... The Fife Green Business Award for Innovation in Green Products and Services. We are now also entered into the national 'Vibes' Business Awards as a result.
12th May 2010
Arc has been teaching the next set of 'certified passivhaus designers' at Strathclyde University.
19th April 2010
We are pleased to welcome a new architect to our team - Paul Higginson. Paul is an experienced architect and we look forward to working with him.
15th April 2010
Arc have been shortlisted for the 'Green Business Fife' Awards.
2nd February 2010
Arc have qualified as one of the first 'Passivhaus Designers' in the UK. This demonstrates a deep understanding of very low energy buildings and their construction.
1st February 2010
We are recruiting! We are looking for a talented project architect to join our award winning team. Please see our employment opportunities page in the 'about us' section for more information.
7th December 2009
Arc are pleased to announce that the Logie
Schoolhouse project carried out for the National
Trust for Scotland, has received the Dundee
Institute of Architects award for 'Best Regeneration/ Conservation Project
2009'.
6th December 2009
Arc staff have completed the UK's first 'Certified EU Passive House Designer' course at Strathclyde University.
9th November 2009
Arc staff were recently interviewed by the Sunday Herald for their weekly feature, this week titled 'Me and my...eco architect'. Click here to read the article about our professional relationship with Alison Davie, of Little and Davie Construction.
29th October 2009
Arc staff are attending the UK's first 'Certified EU Passive House Designer' course at Strathclyde University in November. This is the first of these courses to be run in the English language and is attended by leaders in the field from across Europe.
4th September 2009
Arc will be involved in presenting a Masterclass in Clay
Mortar Repairs in association with the Scottish
Lime Centre on Thursday the 24th of September. This is a
rare opportunity to learn the key factors in successful repairs from leading
practioners in the field. To find out more and to join us for the day
please click
here
2nd June 2009
Our flagship conservation project last year, the restoration of the 'A' listed mudwall Schoolhouse at Logie in Angus prestigious Europa Nostra, the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage. One of only 28 projects across Europe, the award recognises outstanding quality of conservation work and the contribution to the local community through a series of workshops and masterclasses.
1st June 2009
See some of our work in action - an interview with Little and Davie, the team of craftsmen and women carrying out repairs to the 5th Century ruins in Bute is here
5th May 2009
We are pleased to welcome two new members of staff - Tessa and Graham. Tessa is an architect with experience in conservation work, and Graham an architectural technician
23rd March 2009
Arc has secured Planning Permission for our Client to build a new low energy sustainable house in south Perthshire. The house is of contemporary design and is predicted to use only 20% of the energy a standard new build house would consume.
23rd March 2009
Thanks to everyone who applied for the job vacancy. We are now undertaking final interviews and applications are closed.
11th February 2009
Outline Planning Permission has been granted for a new environmental visitor centre on a sensitive site on the banks of Loch Tay, designed by Arc.
10th February 2009
We are looking for a talented ARCHITECT with up to 5 years experience post part III or a design conscious architectural TECHNOLOGIST. Please click here for more information. (Note - applications for this post are now closed)
8th February
The new EBUK membership form now can be downloaded from the EBUK
page
4th February 2009
Arc are pleased to announce that we have been presented with an Angus
Design Award for our work on the Logie
Schoolhouse Project.
21st January 2009
The restoration of the schoolhouse at Logie, Angus, for The National Trust
for Scotland is now complete. Pictures and information can be found here.
23rd December 2008
Arc have submitted a Planning Application for a low energy, low carbon, high quality modern house in Perthshire.
18th December 2008
Tom and Mark built a green oak frame structure a walled garden at Monimail. This was great training and enjoyable.
8th September 2008
Having submitted the 'townhouse
regeneration' project, Arc Architects are one of 3 finalists in the
Creative Fife 'Architectural Excellence' awards.
1st September 2008
The Logie Schoolhouse
project is nearing completion, to be opened by the Earl of Airlie on Wednesday
26th September.
There will be a public lecture about the project held by the Montrose Society on Thursday 18th September at 7.30pm
21st July 2008
Construction has started on a refurbishment project of an old manse in Fife. Working with the existing structure it will transform part of the building, bringing in light and creating a warm and modern space sympathetic to the history of the site.
15th July 2008
The draft Earth Building UK 'memodrandum
& articles' is available for download and comment by
members.
21st May 2008
Yesterday Arc hosted a seminar focus group 'Defining Affordable Energy Sustainability': reviewing low energy and zero carbon design in depth. This included speakers from The Carbon Trust and Wood Energy Ltd as well as consultants we regularly work with in the Design Team.
30th April 2008
Arc is hosting 4 days of masterclasses at the Logie Schoolhouse promoting mudwall construction and providing hands on experience.
14th April 2008
One of Arc's Project Architects has just returned from the International PassivHaus Conference in Germany. With over 42 countries represented this is the leading conference for designers of low energy and PassivHaus projects in the world. The most up to date research and built projects are presented. For more information please click here.
10th March 2008
Tom Morton, Arc's Principle Architect has just published a new book 'Earth masonry - Design and Construction Guidelines' with a foreword by Rab Bennetts. Please click to buy a copy from BRE Press or to download more information.
15th January 2008
Arc is pleased to have won a competition to develop a major dynamic arts and community project in Kirkcaldy with Fife Council.
14th January 2008
Due to an expanding workload in a variety of exciting projects across the spectrum of our workload, Arc is seeking an architect and a technician to assist with upcoming projects. Please send us a CV and examples of your work.
14th January 2008
Arc have recently completed an extensive redevelopment of an existing townhouse on the Fife coast. Further information can be found here