Built by Century Homes, this demonstration home is two-storey. The house
incorporates a number of innovative features and has been designed to achieve high levels of energy efficiency and U-value
requirements. The house has no internal load-bearing walls, which means cost savings on foundation and provides flexible internal
space that can easily be reconfigured. The large spans are achieved by using I-beam technology in the floor. The I-beam has
pre-service pop-outs to facilitate straightforward fitting of services on site. The home features factory-fitted wall insulation
and an innovative cladding system, Novabrick, which looks like brick but uses no mortar and is rapidly built.
It is designs such as the Timber House which could be replicated within the Olympic
Village and the neighbouring regeneration schemes to demonstrate to world audiences the ability of the UK Construction industry
to work with a wide range of different construction materials.
