REHAU partner in sustainable Lanarkshire house

REHAU is a key partner in a new project at South Lanarkshire College to build an affordable low-energy, low-carbon house which is being built to the Code for Sustainable Homes, Level 5 standard.

The house in Scotland will showcase the design and technologies required to meet future building standards.

This targets a 100% reduction in CO2 emissions over target emission rate and states that a Code 5 house should display 'exemplary performance with high standards of energy and water efficiency'.

The project was launched by John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in Scotland on 1 June and will be completed in September when the College hosts the UK construction skills competition SKILLBUILD.

From its Glasgow office, polymer specialist REHAU is supplying a complete range of sustainable solutions for the house including its RAUGEO ground source energy probes, REHAU AWADUKT Thermo ground - air heat exchanger, underfloor heating, polymer pipework, RAURAIN rainwater harvesting system and PVC-U windows and doors.

The house, which is being built by Dawn Homes using a timber frame kit, demonstrates how technologies which are already available from mainstream suppliers like REHAU could be used in both the private and social housing sectors throughout Scotland to achieve both code 4 and now code 5 ratings.

It will have integrated cut-away sections and models demonstrating the technologies, construction approaches and insulation materials which would otherwise be hidden below ground or behind walls.

Once complete, it will be used as a training facility for students at the college, which is the largest education facility for trainees in the construction industry in Scotland.

Colin Pearson, General Manager for REHAU Scotland, commented: "As a leading provider of sustainable energy solutions, REHAU is delighted to be involved with this new initiative".

"Not only will the house promote the benefits of our technologies to potential clients and specifiers but we will also be training the contractors of the future in how to design and install these products".

Glasgow Caledonian University will be monitoring the performance of the renewable energy elements of the house through probes built into its structure.

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