Fast timber frame in Wales accredited with the Welsh Green dragon environmental award. FSC Forestry Stewardship Council Chain of Custody for fast FSC timber frame manufacture and installation of flats. ISO 9001:2000 quality fast timber frame manufactured and erected to high quality procedures. ISO 14001:2004 The FastFrame factory holds environmental management certification for sustainable timber structures.
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The Directors

fastframe is a division of The Benfield ATT Group - a privately-owned limited business with strong leadership. Our Directors are amongst the most respected within the industry and have pushed fastframe to the to the forefront of the commercial timber frame market.


Managing Director, Dr Michael Benfield

Managing Director

Professor Michael Benfield PhD
FCIB FRICS FCMI FASI FGS FFB MCIM MIE AIPS ACEA AIWSc

  • Doctor of European Planning & Property Development
  • Professor of Research & Scholarship in Civil and Construction Engineering
  • Freeman of the City of Coventry as a Carpenter and Builder
  • Built the first private Timber Frame housing project in 1960's and 70's
  • Served as Board Director of Property Investment and Health Care PLC's
  • Advisor to the Board of Trustees of the Walter Segal Self-Build Trust
  • Member of the Faculty of Building’s select Low Cost Housing Committee
  • Written on property development and planning issues from a futurological, environmental and social equity perspective
  • Extensive knowledge of European land tenure, planning, housing and property development
  • Chairman of the UKTFA's Construction Industry Training Committee
  • Board Member of the New Homes Marketing Board
  • One of the four co-founders of The Green Party
  • Won various National Housing and Civic Trust Awards
  • Founded a substantial firm of contractors and house-builders
  • Developed a multi-office practice of surveyors, valuers and estate agents
  • Served as a board Director of an Advertising Agency
  • Delegate to UNCTAD for the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council
  • Founder Member of the Community Land Trust
  • Respected Academic Researcher
  • Chartered Building Consultant, Chartered Surveyor & Chartered Builder
  • Addressed conferences in Australia, Canada, India, and most of the EU



Freda Sanders

Director of Finance & Administration, Company Secretary

Freda Sanders BSc (Hons) PG Dip ACIS

  • Qualified Psychologist
  • Winner of the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship Award to investigate the use of IT in the education of children with special needs
  • Former Group Financial Director and Deputy CEO - Vanguard Engineering Holdings Limited
  • Former Managing Director responsible for the turnaround of an international sales and manufacturer of talking books for the blind
  • Management Consultant - over a varied range of companies and business sectors, including undertaking due diligence exercises and developing acquisition proposals
  • Vast financial, accounting, and administrative experience
  • Experience throughout the manufacturing, local authorities, education, entertainment and service industries
  • One of the four co-founders of The Green Party.

Chartered Building Consultancy - timber frame, OSM (off-site manufacture) and engineered timber structure advisors. Timber Research and Development Association – our work with TRADA ensures high quality, eco-friendly engineered Timber Frame build projects. The Green Register of Construction Professionals - Fast Frame's membership demonstrates environmentally sustainable professional timber frame build advice. AECB - Association of Environment Conscious Building – our FSC certified timber frame is endorsed by The Ecology Building Society Impact Upon Society Big Tick Award from Business in the Community – BITC – award-winning timber frame company within the Timber-frame industry TRA - Trussed Rafter Association – our membership assures Timberframe Trusses, Trussed Rafters, roofs and complex and innovative roofscapes are quality Wales Quality Centre – members and committee members, we ensure the highest quality, especially when coupled with ISO 9001, FSC certification and Q-Mark Plus standards RICS - Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, assures our customers of our professionalism in wood and timber frame building and developing and surveying
fastframe is part of the Benfield ATT Group.
Chain of Custody TT-COC-1928. FSC Trademark (C) 1996 Forestry Stewardship Council