Constructive Individuals is a practice based in York, and run by architect Phil Bixby. The practice was established in 1985 and immediately embarked on building a demonstration house at the Energy World exhibition at Milton Keynes. Since then, the practice has...

Designed one-off houses for individual clients, including a number of low-energy projects
Designed extensions for houses, many of which have incorporated investigating improvements in overall energy efficiency
Designed sustainable social housing for housing associations
Run training courses for individual self-builders, both in project management and practical building skills
Worked with community self-build projects, as architect, as project manager, as training consultant or as a combination of the three
Written project and site management manuals for the Community Self Build Agency, and worked as trouble-shooter on group self-build projects
Designed projects for community groups, both new-build and conversion of existing buildings, and...
Facilitated masterplanning and community decision-making on projects of varied scale up to neighbourhood masterplans.

This website gives an idea of what we do and how we go about it, with examples of recent projects and a regularly-updated blog bringing news of what we're working on at present.

If you're interested, please get in touch.