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OCTOBER 2013 PRO INSTALLER
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RESOURCE EFFICIENT
HOUSE LAUNCHED
Scotland’s Environment Secretary, Richard Lochhead launched the Resource Efficient
House on the *BRE Innovation Park at Ravenscraig in Lanarkshire earlier today.
The house is one of the
first projects to be delivered by the Scottish
Government’s Resource
Efficient Scotland programme, managed by
Zero Waste Scotland,
and built in partnership
with Tigh Grian Ltd.
As well as facilitating
sustainable living for occupants, the design of the
house will ensure maximum recycling and re-use
of products at its end of
life.
Environment Secretary,
Richard Lochhead said
“This house aims to be the
most resource efficient in
Scotland and is a great example of resource efficiency in action: showing how
businesses and householders can benefit when we
think carefully about how
we use energy, water and
materials. If every house in
Scotland was like this then
we would cut the amount
of construction waste being
sent to landfill and help
make Scotland a more resource efficient nation.”
The home demonstrates
how the latest principles
in resource efficiency and
waste reduction can be
applied in house building.
Currently an average threebed home built in Scotland
can produce as much as
13 tonnes of construction
waste, costing up to £500
per unit. The Resource
Efficient House produced
less than five tonnes of
construction waste, with
less than one tonne going
to landfill.
‘low cost housing, combining an
affordable build and living cost with
impressive ‘green’ credentials’
Director of BRE Scotland
Rufus Logan said ‘The
Resource Efficient house
is chock-full of the innovation our small country
is world renowned for.
This is evident in its
design right down to the
products materials and
technologies it incorporates. The learning from
this project will be of
huge benefit not only to
Scotland and the rest of
the UK but to countries
around the world who are
being challenged to build
with fewer resources.”
Iain Gulland, Director, Zero
Waste Scotland, said ‘The
Resource Efficient House
offers home buyers, house
builders and indeed Scotland
an innovative new approach
to low cost housing, combining an affordable build
and living cost with impressive ‘green’ credentials. But
beyond this, what this model
offers is a potential industry
for Scotland, with jobs and
economic benefits.”
More information about
BRE Scotland go to www.
bre.co.uk/scotland
Stylish & Practical – Brand New
Window System
Now in their 21st year of trading, Essex based fabricator
Climatec Windows have a new offering for its customers. Brand
new to the market, Climatec is the only fabricator in the South
East to offer the new Calibre Window & Door System.
Marketed as the ‘Perfect
Profile’, Calibre is extruded in
Britain and provides a system
that you would expect from
the top brand profile suppliers. Climatec customers can
expect a window that offers
them the best of everything
they need but cuts out
everything they don’t.
Windows and doors fabricated by
Climatec using the Calibre profile
provide customers with a simple,
multi-chambered product that is
‘a simple, multichambered
product that is of
exceptional value.’
of exceptional value. However the
quality and performance provides
an ideal product to offer alongside
Climatec’s already high quality windows, doors and conservatories to
their trade counter customers.
Climatec’s Calibre windows and
doors come in standard white, or
cherrywood on white and applewood on white foiled finishes.
With a 55mm or 67mm outerframe, and ogee glazing bead only,
there is a simplified standard specification of locks and hardware,
therefore providing an easier
ordering process.
Visit www.climatec-windows.
co.uk, and call 01702 613733.