technology and build

Modules
Cloud Nine houses are built by putting modules together in different combinations. Huge spaces can be created by removing walls where the modules join. These buildings are put together simply, but designed and built to last.

Manufacture
Cloud Nine houses are manufactured as whole units on purpose-built production lines in Central Europe, and then delivered to the site. We're able to offer such competitive prices because the individual modules are produced using our new structural system and because the workforce is highly skilled in fitting out the assembled buildings

Technology
The technology we use to build these houses has been developed and refined across Europe and Nortjh America for over thirty years; our technique ensures a building which is extremely robust and also results in insulation-levels in excess of current standard UK housing practice. We use a combination of glu-lam beams (glue-laminated, or ‘glu-lams' are made from layers of thinner wood, glued together) and I-beams (timber 'girders') . These combined sections form, in effect, ‘engineered wood' which is exceptionally strong, as well as resistant to bending or twisting over time. These beams retain their structural integrity when arranged in designs which allow for door and window apertures. (And because these modules are designed to be moved, wall thicknesses are considerable: each module contains roughly 13 tons of wood.

Where the timber's from
We build our houses with timber from renewable sources in Baltic and Central European countries (where most UK building timber is shipped in from). Machining the timber at source reduces the transportation of the waste produced in making a house on site.