‘Energy Performance’
A Buildingtalk guide
Start with the news release
Door-Stop: The first ever energy rated door from
Door-Stop International, which we summarised at the time by saying "Door-Stop has launched the first UK energy rated doors, just two weeks after the British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC) introduced the DER scheme.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Dimplex evacuated tube solar collector from
Dimplex UK: "Dimplex now offer more flexibility for specifiers by adding a high efficiency evacuated tube solar collector to its solar thermal water heating range.".
In September 2011, we covered the news from Concrete Centre
- take a look at Basement solution to shoe-box homes
which says: "Guy Thompson, head of architecture and sustainability at The Concrete Centre, believes the provision of basements would help counter RIBA criticism of 'shameful shoe-box homes'.".
Take a look also at the news release from Polycell Trade, More support from Polycell Trade via new website,
as well as Carbon neutral Stride Treglown office from Stride Treglown,
and National consumer poll by super-fabricator Sierra from Epwin Group.
Latest stories...
Aluminium and Trespa faced panels for school (September 2011)
Aluminium panels from Panel Systems specified for stunning new environmentally-friendly Merseyside primary school.
Kawasaki power products success at Saltex (September 2011)
Distributors came to see Kawasaki's latest range of eco-friendly, reliable and lightweight power products that can handle the most demanding environments
VEKA and Door Energy Ratings scheme (September 2011)
Profile manufacturer VEKA are the first systems company to register on the newly introduced Door Energy Ratings scheme, the biggest extension of the BFRC scheme since 2006
Free solar PV installations from Stroma Solar (September 2011)
New solar PV4FREE scheme offers completely free solar PV installations to residential property owners, enabling them the opportunity to make typical savings of GBP400 each year.
Technical mortars used to renovate River Medway (September 2011)
Saint-Gobain Weber Five Star repair concrete and high-build properties of weber.cem HB30 mortar enabled renovation an old river sluice facility on the River Medway.
JELD-WEN windows specified for energy efficiency (September 2011)
JELD-WEN new DreamVu windows specified for 'Retrofit for the Future' HeatPod project in Penzance.
Light levels increased and energy consumption cut (September 2011)
A variety of luminaires and lighting controls from Cooper Lighting and Safety, installed at the offices of the Irish planning board, have boosted light levels and cut energy consumption.
New low-energy luminaires from Cooper (September 2011)
Cooper Lighting and Safety at LuxLive exhibition to launch a number of new energy-efficient luminaires for use in mains lighting and emergency lighting schemes.
Further reading
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Bi-fold door system for top energy performance
Sheerframe offers fabricators and installers a bi-fold door system with U values as low as 0.8 W/m2K.
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Passivent interface calculates energy performance
Passivent has launched a software tool to help architects and specifiers accurately and quickly assess the impact of natural daylighting on a building's energy performance.
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