Retool Architecture
Glasgow
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Glasgow
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Established Environmentally conscious practice, designing bespoke energy efficient buildings from local, natural and sustainable materials.
Commonly working in sensitive environmental settings.
Mostly working on the design of bespoke new homes, extensions , refurbishment.
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Lorna Macintyre
Great attention to detail and dedication. Retool helped us with drawings for our planning permission and listed building application.
Architecture
Full services of a registered and experienced Architect from Feasibility through to Practical Completion of a Building.
Bespoke , tailored and Award Winning we tend as a practice to work slowly and carefully and at a pace suitable to the client and the Project requirements.
We prefer not to rush.
Design
Full Design service available in the following Key areas.
Energy efficient homes for the tricky looking 21st Century.
Ecological Garden Design.
Pond, plants and planting Design.
Oak Frame Design.
Large Section timber frame Design.
Carpentry systems.
Demountable Buildings.
Shipping Container Buildings.
Planning permission
Used to working on bespoke responses to sensitive Planning permission situations.
Experienced in responding to areas of National Scenic Beauty, Experienced in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI ), Off shore Islands, remote wild and windy places.
Experienced in Listed Building Consents.
Historic Window replacement scheduling
Project Management
Experienced in delivery of difficult and economically challenged projects where Construction Projects require breaking down into manageable works packages and components and managed toward control and ease. Commonly offering enhanced supervision on projects to keep a hold of Costs.
From Small scale Community Self Build Projects in East Pollokshields to Greenock Ocean terminal in Inverclyde.
Self Build + Making
On very small projects that we like the look of. We can offer to take responsibility for the Building out of a project.
Joinery, Basic Carpentry, Landscaping, Planting schemes on small Projects are common to our practice..
We can offer to use detailed Knowledge of Native Timber and its qualities, to act as supplier for the timber requirements of any project.
We can organise and bring in skilled Carpentry firms to build out any Framing or Making requirements.
Survey
Retool will organise and coordinate topographical Surveys required for any project through careful specification and requirements of Survey.
We offer Condition Reports on moderately scaled Historic Buildings - having reworked several over 20 years in practice .
We can Survey and schedule - Historic windows and other Building components toward refurbishment or replacement and do this on Listed Buildings
