Case Studies

 The Elmswell ‘Three Gardens’ Affordable Housing project is a ground-breaking 26-home scheme in Elmswell, Suffolk. With its deep-seated commitment to sustainable development, the scheme comprises thirteen two-bed and nine three-bed houses, plus four one-bed flats, in a design setting which emphasises the rural and communal aspects of the area.

We are the first Log House manufacturer in the UK to comply with the new full building regulations re residential housing for handcrafted log buildings.

Earth and Reed is an environmentally-responsible and ethical company that is now in its eighth year of trading from Needham Market. We supply eco-friendly building and decorating materials in Suffolk, across East Anglia and throughout the UK.

Norfolk based Colchester Print Group, which trades as Breckland Print, Norwich Labels and Moreton Hall press, have unveiled a new corporate identity to be used across all three trading divisions. The new identity focuses upon the group’s environmental credentials using a ‘Breckland’ pine cone in the logo and the line ‘Printing That Doesn’t Cost The Earth’.

CPW Computing is one of our region’s leading providers of networks, computers and software. Under the guidance of managing director, Christine Lock, the Needham Market-based company has combined business success with impressive green ethics.

A new web site www.patchedelephant.co.uk has been set up which can help Suffolk become the greenest county. We are two local mums who have set up a facility for schools and parents to encourage online selling and buying of school equipment, musical instruments and items of school uniform. The facility is really a giant notice board giving people the opportunity to recycle all their unwanted/ unused items locally.

In Valley Road, Leiston, Light Electric Vehicles Ltd (LEV) works to increase awareness of the electric bicycle as a viable alternative to the car and to develop a network of cycle tracks in and around neighbouring towns and villages. Aldeburgh to Snape is a natural, given the link of festivals and music.

P H Pumps Ltd are specialists in the supply and installation of fluid handling equipment. Their work recognises that fresh water is a valuable resource. Using energy on unnecessary production of potable water for non-drinking purposes is wasteful when there is a simple solution available.

Established in early 2006 by former Suffolk pig farmer Robbie Gawthrop, East Green Energy supply and install a range of quality renewable energy systems, including Solar Hot Water Systems, Rainwater Harvesters, Air and Ground Source Heat Pumps.

It is unusual enough to find an ambitious advertising agency in an old print works in an east coast market town. But one specialising in eco-design and print is even more unusual.