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WHAT: The project involved demolishing an existing building and replacing it with a 300m2 luxury chalet. The building includes five bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, a Turkish-style steam bath called a hammam, a gym and a ski equipment room. All of this is arranged over three floors and a mezzanine level.

The chalet's structure includes reinforced concrete floors, walls and staircases, a timber roof structure and facades clad with reconditioned ‘antique' timber boarding.

The roof is covered in stone slate, the windows are made of timber and rooms on upper floors have balconies with decorative timber balustrades.

FINISHES: Floor: generally parquet or Jerusalem stone, wall: timber panelling or render, ceiling: timber panelling

HOW MUCH: Final project cost was £2.3m.

WHEN: Work started in July 2005 and finished on 20 December that year, in time to get the first tenants in for Christmas.

CONTRACT: Lump sum, turnkey

WHO: Developer: Jenny Ehrlmann and Baccarat, architect: Bernard Taillandier, client's representative: Gleeds.

PROJECT TEAM'S VIEW: "During the high tourist skiing season, the external construction of buildings is prohibited in this part of the Alps. Consequently, we only had a window of five months from start to completion of the project, which meant that deadlines were extremely tight."