Oregon Timber Frame capacity uplift: design and delivery notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Oregon Timber Frame has completed the final phase of a £25m expansion at its Selkirk HQ, adding north and south factory extensions to 69,000 sq ft and 25,000 sq ft respectively and installing two automated panel lines to lift output from 3,500 to 5,000 timber frame house kits per year. Barratt Redrow plans to push capacity to 9,000 kits annually within two to three years, supported by 50 new manufacturing roles and up to 30 support posts, taking production capacity up 43%. A separate £40m, 187,000 sq ft factory in Derby, opened in 2023, underpins wider rollout of timber frame systems across England.
Technical Brief
- North factory extension, opened October 2025, increased that building’s footprint by 65% to 69,000 sq ft.
- South factory extension expanded floor area by 50% to 25,000 sq ft, focused on manufacturing throughput.
- Combined Selkirk works now support over 60 permanent office staff in a new modern facility.
- Oregon currently employs around 180 people at Selkirk, with recruitment targeting 80 additional roles post-expansion.
- Construction of offices and both factory extensions was delivered by Wilson Bowden Developments as project manager.
- Luddon Construction acted as principal contractor for the Selkirk build, with Oregon managing internal fit-out.
- Machinery installation, including integration of automated lines, was undertaken in-house by Oregon’s engineering team.
- Staff training investment is geared to operating automated production lines and upskilling existing timber frame operatives.
- Separate Derby facility involved £40m capex for a 187,000 sq ft timber frame factory opened in 2023.
- Timber frame already accounts for ~92% of Scottish housebuilding, with English market share growing year-on-year.
Our Take
In our Infrastructure coverage, Barratt Redrow has repeatedly flagged operational net zero and Future Homes Standard performance at schemes like Cosmeston Farm, so scaling Oregon Timber Frame’s Selkirk and Derby capacity positions timber frame as a core delivery route for those low‑carbon targets rather than a niche product line.
The 43% planned uplift in Oregon Timber Frame production over the next two to three years gives Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes an internalised, factory-based supply of structural systems, which is likely to reduce exposure to on-site labour constraints that feature in many of the 842 Infrastructure stories in our database.
With timber frame already accounting for around 92% of Scottish housebuilding, the Selkirk-focused investment suggests Barratt Redrow is consolidating a regional manufacturing hub model that can later be replicated or expanded in England, where our database shows far more mixed structural solutions across recent housing project coverage.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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