Sustainability

Roderick James Architects has built a reputation over the last fifty years for putting more fun and informality back into buildings, while using natural buildings materials and creating thermally efficient envelopes with dramatic spatial qualities.

The practice was founded on sustainable principles with Roderick James being the first Director at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales. We have helped hundreds of self-builders to design and build their own timber frame dream homes.

We have now launched our new sustainability policy, RJA Zero, which includes our commitment to be a carbon-zero business by 2030 (through carbon footprint certification by Planet Mark). We are also working towards decarbonising our building designs by signing up to Architects’ Declare and the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.

We promote the use of timber as a sustainable building material and this recently culminated in the design and construction of the COP26 House (in collaboration with other like-minded suppliers through the Beyond Zero Homes collective). We actively support Trees For Life’s rewilding of the Caledonian Forest by planting trees in our own grove for each completed RJA building.

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