Marcus Reid
Founder / Site leadCity & Guilds carpenter, thirty-one years on tools. Started Ironwood after a decade of watching good drawings get built badly.
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Twenty-two people in a workshop on Drummond Road, most of whom have been here longer than the vans.
Passivhaus Trust◆FMB Master Builder◆FSC® Chain of Custody◆NHBC Registered◆TRADA Member◆City & Guilds Carpentry◆
Since 2009
Started because a good drawing kept getting built badly.
Marcus spent ten years as a lead hand watching thoughtful architecture arrive on site and get value-engineered into something ordinary by the third change order. Ironwood exists to close that gap: keep the crew in-house, keep the model honest, and price the thing that was actually drawn.
Seventeen years later we are twenty-two people — carpenters, a structural engineer, two Passivhaus tradespeople and one very organised bookkeeper — and we still only take six to eight projects a year.
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The peopleWho you
Who you
actually get.
Priya Raman
Director of ConstructionCEng MIStructE, mass timber specialist. Ran the Greenwich Pavilion raise from a folding table on the Thames Path.
Tom Vasilyev
Head of FabricationRuns the shop, the CNC schedule and the argument about tolerances that we have every Tuesday.
Elena Cho
Client LeadPassivhaus Tradesperson. The person who answers when you call, from first walk to the twelve-month return.
What we hold to
Four rules.
01 · The crew is on payrollNot subcontracted, not day-rate. It is the only way the person who opens a wall is the person who closes it.◆
02 · Timber within 250 milesDouglas fir, larch and European spruce from British and Irish forests. FSC chain-of-custody on every stick.◆
03 · One lead, start to finishYou get a name and a mobile number on day one and the same name at the twelve-month visit.◆
04 · Blower door before drywallTest when it is still cheap to fix. We have never handed over a house above 0.8 ACH50.◆
CredentialsLicensed, certified,
Licensed, certified,
and insured.
FMB Master Builder
Registered 6104219, in good standing since 2009. Ten-year structural warranty on every residential project.
Passivhaus Trust
Two certified designers and four certified tradespeople on staff. Six certified buildings delivered.
FSC® Chain of Custody
Certified chain-of-custody so the wood in your house can be traced to the forest it came from.