Timber Frame Company in Cork
Timber Frame Homes in Cork
At Ecotech Homes, we have many years of experience in Timber Frame Construction which gives us the expertise to either Supply & Fit your Timber Frame House or to look after the complete build process for your Self Build.
When you work with us, you can rely on our knowledge, expertise and understanding to ensure that your build runs smoothly and your new home in Cork is everything you’ve imagined.

What We Offer
Timber Frame for Self Builders
Our expertise enables us to offer a versatile approach to suit you, and we can supply & fit your Timber Frame house where you intend for you to manage and complete your own build, or we can provide a complete service to build your Timber Frame home from scratch.
Turnkey Timber Frame Homes
We believe that constructing a Timber Frame House is a 3-part process: Design, Manufacture and On Site Construction. Once you realise and maintain the engineering, design, quality of workmanship and materials through all three phases, we can confidently say that there is no better method of house construction available in Ireland today.
Specialist Timber Frame Builders
Our 3-Phase Process:
Timber Frame House Plans & Designs
Our experienced Engineers and Designers will produce a full Engineering Specification, including Floor Plans and layouts for you and your Engineer/Architects approval, prior to the manufacture of your Timber Frame. When we have agreed these specifications and layouts, we will proceed to the manufacturing phase of the process. We provide full engineering calculations, structural certificates and final certification with all our Timber Frame homes.
Manufacturing Timber Frames
During the manufacturing process, our high performance, low energy, passive and near passive homes have insulation and air tightness products installed, or ‘factory fitted’, to ensure the highest quality of workmanship and materials. The Timber Frame panels are delivered to your site and installed in place to complete your passive or low energy home.
On Site Experience
Our on site experience and knowledge are key to ensuring the continuity of quality from the design and manufacturing stages throughout the build. Our on site experience constitutes many years in the construction and completion of our quality passive and high performance homes.
Timber Frame Construction - The Benefits

Environmentally Friendly
In addition to the environmental benefits of timber as a construction material, the high thermal insulation means that living in a Timber Framed house minimizes the effects of burning fossil fuels and the Greenhouse effect.

Embodied Carbon & CO2 Emissions
Concrete causes up to 8% of global CO2 emissions annually, 900 kg of Carbon is produced for every 1 ton of concrete or concrete product produced with the average concrete built house accounting for the majority of this. Embodied carbon is considered to be the amount of Carbon created to manufacture or produce this product for use in construction i.e. Carbon produced as a result of manufacturing this product.

Low weight
Lightweight construction requires less expensive foundations for a given building volume and enables larger buildings to be constructed on sites with poor ground conditions, such as brown field sites.

Not weather dependent
Rapid completion of structural or weatherproof shell enables the internal fit out to begin earlier, with less dependence on weather conditions. Site planning is therefore more predictable. A typical scheme house can be made weather tight in less than five days.

Removes block work from the ‘critical path’
Factory prefabrication removes block laying from the critical path, so other trades can begin work on the building before the masonry leaf is completed.

Drying-out time
Reduced drying-out time for wet trades means internal finishing can be completed sooner with less risk of shrinkage, cracks and subsequent expensive call backs.

Improved quality
CAD/CAM technology ensures factory quality is consistent and accurate. Each unit is an engineered solution, making it easier for your onsite team and ensuring improved consistency across the site and a faster route to a top quality, finished home.
Better Built Homes
Our experience, knowledge, attention to detail and a high quality finish are some of the many qualities which set us apart as a company.
Whether you have taken the Self Build or Turnkey Project route, you can be assured that the same level of attention and professionalism is taken in our approach. Our processes, quality and attention to detail ensure that we will achieve the energy efficient, quality built home you desire.
Using Offsite or Modern construction methods such as Timber Frame not only ensures better engineering and design inputs but also provides superior quality control on all remaining inputs during the manufacturing process. This means that we have more control over materials and labour, because the manufacturing process takes place within a controlled environment. For instance, our Timber Frame is produced in a manner that means they are not exposed to the elements, using environmentally friendly products, and this helps to ensure a superior quality home.
Timber Frame House Frequently Asked Questions
In terms of the exterior finish, a Timber Frame home will look no different to a home built by more traditional methods.
However, the similarities tend to end there. Timber Frame offers a rapid build construction which will reduce your build time by at least twelve weeks compared to traditional build methods.
As we provide a highly insulated and airtight building fabric, manufactured under a strict quality controlled environment, you can be assured that the performance of your new home is achieved in reality and not just on paper. We undertake a pre-construction plan and specification setting out materials and processes required to achieve the required end goal.
Ecotech Homes supply and install High Performance Insulated Foundation Systems with underfloor heating, supply and fit of pre-manufactured Timber Frame structure, including the external wall panels, internal partitions and cut roof or roof trusses as required. We will supply and fit insulation and airtightness measures to your building envelope to A2 Rated or Passive Standard as required. We also supply and fit felt, battens & slates/tile to the roof, we can Supply & Fit External Windows & Doors with supply only of plasterboard and acoustic insulation, both supplied only for fitting by others.
- Block work for your outer walls
- Plumbing and electrical services
- Plastering externally and internally
- Second fix joinery
- Internal finishes
As a Timber Frame home usually consists of prefabricated wall and floor panels, lifting equipment such as a crane is usually required to install these prefabricated panels. Scaffolding will be required to be in place in advance of the delivery and fitting of a Timber Frame house.
Our Timber Frame houses are highly insulated and airtight, achieving low U-Values.
A U-Value is a measure of thermal performance, with lower values meaning a better performance. Timber Frame has excellent level of airtightness, which eradicates drafts and further advances the thermal building envelope performance, allowing such elements as external walls and windows to work at near 100% of their designed efficiency. Field studies have shown that Timber Frame insulation compares or correlates with their calculated U-Values, while other methods of construction including partial fit cavity insulation used in masonry homes can be up to twice the calculated U-Value.
Timber is a natural insulant, and a Timber Frame home will also minimise heat loss through thermal bridging, which can be a problem in other forms of construction.
In addition, Timber Frame has a faster and more rapid thermal response than concrete, meaning a Timber Frame house will reach the desired room temperature faster than a masonry house. In a masonry house, heating can take longer because the blocks/concrete themselves need to heat up before the house heats up.
Yes. It is widely reported that Timber Frame homes can be built in about half the time of a masonry house. The speed of construction of the Timber Frame element of the house allows for a quicker weathering in time frame, as Timber Frame construction is not as weather dependent as conventional building. This means that more tradespeople can work on the house concurrently, internally and externally, thus reducing the overall build time of the house. Finally, as Timber Frame construction uses significantly less water in the construction process, the building will not take as long to dry out and so will be ready for decorating, completion and occupation sooner.
Yes. Timber Frames houses are fully catered for and meet all fire standards and requirements under the current building regulations. For these reasons, both insurance and financial institutions do not differentiate between Timber Frame and masonry construction.
Yes. A new Timber Frame home will last as long and as well as any other form of new home construction. In this part of the world, softwood timber has been used to build homes since the 19th century and these are still going strong. Since then, we have seen great advances in building knowledge and technology, improving and advancing the methods of Timber Frame construction used today. Your Timber Frame home will endure for many generations to enjoy.
There are typically two leafs of construction shown on a house plan, the inner leaf and the outer leaf. Timber Frame replaces the inner leaf with a factory made Timber Frame panel that is engineered, designed and manufactured specifically for the project. This panel is then insulated, made airtight and covered by plasterboard, and the external leaf is constructed in blockwork, brick, stone, metal or timber cladding as required, the outer leaf’s only function being weathering and decoration.
No. As Timber Frame construction affects only the internal leaf of the house, it has no effect on the visual impact of the building from the outside. Therefore, it does not have any planning implications and does not require a change in planning or a new planning application.
As Timber Frame buildings incorporate all of the wall insulation in the wall structure itself, a 50mm cavity is all that is required. Masonry houses usually incorporate the insulation in the cavity, which would typically have a 100mm cavity. Therefore, some adjustment may be necessary. Our sales team will be happy to discuss your plans with you to recommend a solution.
No. Typically, Timber Frame houses are clad in a plastered block and look like any other house. But a range of materials are suitable, including stone, block and render, metal or timber cladding.
Yes. Modern Timber Frame systems enjoy better acoustic insulation qualities than masonry homes and fully conform to and exceed building regulation requirements.
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