Archive for the 'Environmental Stories' Category
The waiting is finally over for the long anticipated Approved Document L, which ultimately didn’t bring too many surprises. Here, Martin Saunders, Sales Director of Eurocell Profiles, looks at the opportunities it now presents to fabricators.
Posted in Environmental Stories, Profiles Product News on June 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »
With Window Energy Ratings (WERs) being the only certain way of complying with the imminent updates to Part L, Martin Saunders, Sales Director of Eurocell Profiles, looks at why he believes there will be a continued move across the industry to this method of compliance.
Posted in Environmental Stories on May 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
Significant advances have been made in the area of recycling, helping the door and window industry demonstrate high levels of sustainability. Here, Chris Coxon, Marketing Manager of Eurocell, looks at how post-consumer recycled PVC-U also delivered maximum energy efficiency for one of the UK’s largest social housing projects.
Posted in Environmental Stories on May 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
Clients are increasingly looking for window supply partners that can offer maximum thermal performance as well as maximum sustainability. Here, Chris Coxon, Marketing Manager of Eurocell, takes a look at why closed loop PVC-U recycling is best placed to meet both these requirements.
Posted in Environmental Stories on May 4th, 2010 | No Comments »
Residents on a development in Liskeard, Cornwall, look set to benefit from the thermal performance enhancing properties of cavity closers. Here, Martin Benn, Sales Manager at Cavalok, explains why 100 per cent post-consumer recycled cavity closers were used on this development.
Posted in Environmental Stories, Other Product Stories on August 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
The availability of documentation to support the sustainability claims of PVC.
Posted in Environmental Stories on August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
The Government here is borrowing money at levels unheard of in an attempt to get us through the recession with some economists claiming it will last for two or even three more years.
Posted in Environmental Stories on July 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
There are some difficult choices when you are trying to be green. What may at first sight be the green option may not always be the case.
Posted in Environmental Stories on July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
PVCaware.org, the British Plastics Federation’s campaign body for windows, has written to reassure editors of PVC-U’s fire safety record following the inclusion of erroneous quotes in reports on the Camberwell tragedy at the Lakanal House block of flats on 3 July.
Posted in Environmental Stories, UPVC Profiles, UPVC Windows on July 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
The response by some sections of the national press to the tragic Camberwell fire has been deeply disappointing. More specifically, claims that the building was fitted with PVC-U window frames, which exacerbate the spread of fire were fundamentally flawed, alarmist and irresponsible.
Posted in Environmental Stories, UPVC Doors, UPVC Profiles, UPVC Windows on July 14th, 2009 | No Comments »