 | Sustainable Homes: Cracking the code!
 John and Janet’s new oak framed home – built across the lane from the house in which they had lived for the best part of 30 years – is an embodiment of their aspirations for a character-packed, energy-efficient retirement home.
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 | Cycle for Sarah
Cycle for Sarah was a fundraising exercise held in memory of Oakwrights’ General Manager Bill Keir’s wife Sarah, who died in October 2008 after a 5 year battle with breast cancer.
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 | 10 Years Of Crafting Unique Houses
This year saw Oakwrights commemorate 10 years in business.
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 | UK Carpenter’s Fellowship Elects New Chairman
Bill, who has been constructing Oak frame buildings for 25 years, commented on his new role, “I see the Carpenter’s Fellowship continue building on the hard work that has gone before, to promote our form of construction into the wider public arena and to maintain the steady growth and recognition of our unique industry.
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 | Dates for your diary in 2009
Homebuilding & Renovating Show - North
At the Harrogate International Centre on 6th – 8th November 2009 Attend Oakwrights Free Master class on Fri 6th at 1.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS EXTENSION WINS DESIGN AWARD
An Oakwrights green oak frame extension wins 2009 West Lancashire Design Award.
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 | OPEN DAY IN KENT - 1ST AUGUST 2009
The owners of a stunning home in Kent have kindly allowed Oakwrights to hold an open day.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS ARE CYCLING FOR SARAH
Oakwrights are planning to raise as much money as possible this year by cycling to FRAME.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS DEMONSTRATE FOR S.P.A.B
At the invitation of SPAB (The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings), Oakwrights showed new developments in timber frame building at the Chiltern Open Air Museum this week.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS HOUSE FEATURED ON THE FRONT COVER
Set in a beautiful plot deep in Kent, this traditional 3-bay cottage is a storey and a half with rendered infill panels.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS HOUSE FEATURED IN HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATING MAGAZINE
With summer on its way you are possibly getting the urge to start your dream project.
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 | ROOKIES RACE SUCCESS
Riding his new Yamaha Supersport R6 under the OAKWRIGHTS banner Ross competed in his first race at Mallory Park last month. Read More |
 | OAKWRIGHTS WELCOMES FINANCIAL SPEAKER
Oakwrights will be hosting an Open day at our show home in Hereford on Friday 3rd April, with guest speaker and expert in self build finance, Rachel Pyne.
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 | AND ANOTHER AWARD FOR OAKWRIGHTS HOUSE
We are delighted to be able to announce that the featured house won a highly commended in the 2008 Sussex Heritage Awards.
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 | NATIONAL AWARD FOR OAKWRIGHTS HOUSE
We are delighted to be able to say that one of our designs has won the ‘Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2008’ in The Best Traditional Home category.
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 | PROUD PARENT PETE’S PIGGY PICTURES!
Or more accurately they are Emma’s, the daughter of Pete Cianchi one of our project managers.
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 | ACCORDIA WINS STIRLING PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURE
For the first time ever a contemporary housing estate, Accordia in Cambridgeshire,has won the 2008 Stirling Prize for architecture.
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 | HB&R SHOW EXCEL, or, FRAME 2008 PART 2
On exactly the same days as Frame 2008, OAKWRIGHTS were also attending the HB&R show at the Excel centre in London’s docklands.
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 | FRAME 2008, PART ONE.
The annual Carpenters Fellowship bash, Frame 2008, took place in glorious if unexpected sunshine at Cressing Temple Barns in Essex over the weekend of 19 – 21 September.
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 | OAKWRIGHTS HELP BUILD LOCAL SCHOOLS OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
September saw the grand opening of an oak framed outdoor classroom at our neighbouring primary school at Stretton Sugwas.
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 | And then the barbecue - August 2008
Despite the best efforts of the British summer to thwart our plans, we managed to hold our annual barbecue at our new purpose built workshop on the Friday before the August bank holiday, combining it with the inauguration of our new ‘worlds first’ machine (see previous story).
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 | WORLDS FIRST FOR OAKWRIGHTS - August 2008
Friday the 22nd August 2008 was a red letter day for all at OAKWRIGHTS.
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 | Star speaker booked for open day
OAKWRIGHTS are delighted to be able to announce that Mark Brinkley, famous self build expert, author and speaker, will be attending an open day at our show home in Herefordshire on Friday, September 26th 2008.
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 | Oakwrights new show home opens
We are delighted to announce that this autumn has seen the official opening of our new and much anticipated show home.
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 | Clients photos
We were kindly sent photographs by clients of their completed or very near completed houses and decided to include them in this news item.
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