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News Release from: Hambleside Danelaw | Subject: Insulator rooflight installation
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2007
Gorillas go green at London Zoo
Roof of Gorilla Kingdom exhibit has been fitted with Hambleside Danelaw's ground-breaking Insulator GRP thermally efficient rooflights.
There'll be no monkey business about energy efficiency and climate change when the gorillas move into their exciting new home at London Zoo at Easter The roof of the nearly-completed Gorilla Kingdom exhibit has been fitted with Hambleside Danelaw's ground-breaking Insulator GRP thermally efficient rooflights
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Insulator - the revolutionary rooflight from Hambleside Danelaw - has become the first GRP in-plane rooflight to be awarded British Board of Agrement certification.
Recognised by the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation last year for the 'outstanding innovation' behind them, the Insulator rooflights incorporate a transparent insulation in the form of an advanced honeycomb technology that allows the maximum possible natural light into a building.
This will obviously be enjoyed by the gorillas, colobus monkeys, rainforest birds and monitor lizards that will be sharing the zoo's top new attraction for 2007.
Insulator rooflights are extremely effective in limiting carbon emissions through a building's heat loss.
The Carbon Trust has found that the product is providing a saving on energy consumption of 13.1% in a typical industrial building with a 7,865m floor area.
Hambleside Danelaw estimates that it can also deliver up to 24.2 tonnes of CO2 savings each year in comparison with a rooflight that complies just within the current building regulation limits.
Commenting on the installation of the Insulator rooflights at Gorilla Kingdom, Robin Jeffery, Hambleside Danelaw's vice chairman, said: "Charitable organisations like London Zoo and the public sector estate are increasingly setting the pace when it comes to sustainable development and commissioning energy efficient buildings in the fight against climate change".
"Businesses also need to understand that you can be green and grow, because of the energy costs saved through the specification of insulated building materials".
Insulator was selected for installation on Gorilla Kingdom by Tego Roofing .
The exhibit's architect is Procter and Matthews, while the main contractor is Crispin and Borst .
This is the second Insulator rooflight installation at London Zoo.
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