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Professional Services Offered
Home extensions, refurbishments & Loft conversions
We provide tailored architectural and technical services for home extensions, refurbishments and loft conversions, helping you unlock the full potential of your home. From modest alterations to complex reconfigurations, we create spaces that feel natural to live in, are practical to build and add long-term value to your property.
As a CIAT Chartered Practice led by a dual-chartered Architectural Technologist and Building Engineer, we combine design flair with rigorous technical detailing. Every scheme is developed with buildability, cost, energy performance and full compliance with Welsh planning policy and Building Regulations in mind.
Typical support includes:
- Feasibility studies and options appraisals to test what’s possible
- Advice on planning permission and permitted development rights
- Detailed architectural drawings for planning and Building Regulations approval
- Coordination with structural engineers and other specialists where required
- Careful consideration of insulation, airtightness and thermal performance
- Clear technical information for contractors to price and build from
Whether you’re opening up a kitchen-diner, refurbishing an older property or converting a loft into a new bedroom or office, we provide a structured, stage-by-stage service that guides you from first ideas through to construction on site.
Sustainable architecture with a particular focus on PassivHaus and EnerPHit design
We deliver architectural and technical services with a strong emphasis on sustainable, low-energy design, drawing on PassivHaus and EnerPHit principles for both new builds and deep retrofits. Our focus is on creating homes that are comfortable year-round, cheap to heat and cool, and carefully detailed to minimise drafts, cold spots and moisture risk.
As a CIAT Chartered Practice, we take a fabric-first approach – concentrating on insulation, airtightness, thermal bridge reduction and robust ventilation strategies, while ensuring full compliance with Building Regulations and wider planning requirements.
Typical support includes:
- Early-stage feasibility studies to explore low-energy design options
- Integration of PassivHaus and EnerPHit principles into layout, form and orientation
- Fabric-first envelope design, including insulation build-ups and thermal bridge reduction
- Airtightness and ventilation strategies, including MVHR coordination where appropriate
- Coordination with energy assessors, structural engineers and other specialists
- Technical detailing to manage condensation risk and long-term building performance
- Clear construction information to help contractors deliver high-performance fabric on site
Whether you’re aiming for full PassivHaus/EnerPHit certification or simply want a home that performs significantly better than standard, we tailor our level of input to your project, combining careful detailing with robust specifications to help you balance energy performance, budget, buildability and contractor clarity on site.
High-end bespoke homes and large-scale domestic developments
We provide comprehensive architectural and technical services for high-end bespoke homes and larger domestic developments, delivering design-led, performance-driven solutions for discerning homeowners and developers. Our work balances strong architectural character with the practical realities of construction, cost and long-term maintenance.
Phoenix Architecture specialises in complex, high-value residential schemes where build quality, detailing and coordination really matter. From initial concept through to detailed technical information, we ensure each home responds to its site, captures key views and daylight, and is set up for efficient, comfortable living over the long term.
Typical support includes:
- Site appraisals and feasibility studies to understand constraints and opportunities
- Concept and developed design for one-off homes and multi-plot schemes
- Planning strategy, including Design & Access Statements and supporting reports where required
- Coordination with planning officers, consultants and specialist designers
- Detailed technical design for Building Regulations approval and construction
- Integration of low-energy, PassivHaus-aligned and fabric-first principles where appropriate
- High-quality drawing and specification packages to support accurate pricing and smooth delivery on site
Phoenix Architecture specialises in complex, high-value residential schemes where build quality, detailing and coordination really matter. For these projects we produce highly detailed, technically rigorous drawing and specification sets, so that when contractors attend site there are fewer assumptions, fewer surprises and a much clearer route to delivering the design intent.
Commercial & mixed-use developments
We provide integrated architectural and technical services for commercial and mixed-use developments, helping clients deliver functional, high-performing and visually coherent spaces. Our experience spans office fit-outs, retail units, hospitality venues and schemes that combine residential, commercial and community uses.
As a CIAT Chartered Practice, we balance design quality with regulatory compliance, build-ability and long-term operational performance. From first feasibility sketches to detailed construction information, we focus on layouts that work for staff, customers and occupants, while aligning with planning policy, Building Regulations and commercial objectives.
Typical support includes:
- Site and feasibility studies, including massing and layout options
- Concept and developed design for new-build, refurbishment and fit-out projects
- Planning applications, including supporting statements and coordination with consultants
- Building Regulations packages, including fire strategy, access and acoustic considerations in collaboration with specialist designers
- Rational, efficient space planning to support operational needs and future flexibility
- Highly detailed technical drawings, specifications and coordination packages for accurate pricing and confident delivery on site
- Coordination with structural, MEP and other consultants to ensure a fully integrated design
Whether you are reconfiguring an existing building, bringing new commercial space to market or delivering a mixed-use scheme that blends homes with retail, leisure or workspace, we provide a structured, stage-based service that keeps design intent, compliance and commercial viability aligned.
Change-of-use applications and heritage-sensitive projects
We support clients with change-of-use projects and heritage-sensitive schemes where existing buildings need to work harder, without losing their character. This includes barns, chapels, commercial buildings and houses being converted or adapted for new uses, as well as alterations to listed buildings and properties in conservation areas.
We understand both the design sensitivities and the technical challenges of working with older and historically significant buildings. Our aim is to respect original fabric and setting while improving functionality, comfort and long-term performance.
Typical support includes:
- Early feasibility studies to understand planning and heritage constraints
- Design proposals for change-of-use and adaptation of existing structures
- Heritage-sensitive alterations and extensions to listed and traditional buildings
- Preparation of Design & Access Statements and Heritage Impact Statements where required
- Coordination with conservation officers, heritage consultants and structural engineers
- Careful detailing to manage moisture, breathability and junctions between old and new fabric
- Building Regulations packages that balance conservation requirements with modern performance standards
Whether you are converting a redundant building to a new use, upgrading a historic property for modern living or carefully extending a character building, we provide structured, stage-by-stage support that keeps heritage value, technical performance and planning risk in balance.
Drone Photography & Virtual Reality Project Modelling
As part of our wider architectural service, we offer professional drone surveys and virtual reality (VR) project modelling to give clients and contractors a clearer understanding of their projects from the very start. Using drones, we can capture high-resolution aerial imagery and video, undertake roof and condition surveys and document sites that may be difficult, time-consuming or unsafe to access by traditional means.
We also provide immersive VR experiences on request, utilising Meta Quest headsets to bring sketch models and detailed 3D designs into a fully interactive environment. This allows clients, design teams and contractors to explore spaces at true scale, review options and make informed decisions before work begins on site.
Typical use of drone & VR tools includes:
- Aerial condition surveys of roofs, chimneys and hard-to-reach building elements
- Site context photography for design development, planning submissions and visualisations
- Progress photography and documentation during construction for records and reporting
- Accurate reference imagery to support measured surveys and technical detailing
- VR walkthroughs of proposed layouts and elevations to support client decision-making
- VR-based design reviews with project teams to spot issues early and refine details
- Stakeholder presentations where an immersive experience helps communicate design intent
These advanced tools are integrated into our normal design and technical workflow, helping us to produce more accurate information, de-risk complex sites and give all parties a clearer picture of how a project will look and feel long before construction starts.
Support for Contractors
We work closely with contractors to bridge the gap between design intent and practical delivery on site. With years of hands-on experience on the contractor side in both design and project management, alongside dual chartered status in Architectural Technology and Building Engineering, we bring a rare mix of design precision, technical rigour and buildability insight to every project.
We are known for producing some of the most detailed and technically robust drawing and specification sets our contractors work with. Our information is structured to minimise ambiguity and unknowns, coordinate structure, fabric and services, and clearly communicate how the building is to be put together. By anticipating issues early and staying involved through construction, we help you plan efficiently, reduce risk and keep programmes on track.
Typical support for contractors includes:
- On-call technical support retainers – rapid responses to RFIs, site queries and unforeseen issues, tailored to each project and level of involvement
- Drawing and specification review – buildability checks, clash spotting and coordinated updates before information hits site
- Focused technical detailing – junctions, interfaces and bespoke details to resolve complex or non-standard conditions
- Building Regulations advice – support on compliance, documentation and liaison with Building Control where required
- Design service for Design & Build – full architectural packages aligned with your construction methods, materials and procurement routes, including consultant coordination through tender and construction stages
- Ongoing site support – attending to technical queries, advising on value-engineering options and helping manage change without undermining design intent
- Close-out assistance – input to as-built information, O&M documentation and defects resolution so projects can be signed off cleanly
By combining architectural excellence, engineering expertise and contractor-side understanding, Phoenix Architecture offers dependable design management, project coordination and on-call technical backup, helping contractors deliver with confidence, clarity and control.
