Steni cladding features in BRE'S Innovation Park

Cladding panels from Steni UK have debuted at the BRE's Innovation Park, on a modular home that meets Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

The Cub House, designed by property developer Charlie Greig of Cub Housing Solutions and exclusively manufactured off-site in the UK by FutureForm, had already been launched at this year's Ideal Home Show.

Now with the BRE near Watford, the ultra-modern, two-storey Cub House features 180m of Steni Colour fibreglass reinforced polymer composite panels, with a smooth, high-gloss, pearly-white surface of electron beam cured acrylic that is applied without the use of solvents.

They were specified by Charlie for a multitude of reasons including their aesthetics, off-site suitability, low-maintenance, longevity and guarantees.

Designed to meet Lifetime Homes and Secured by Design standards, the Cub House is suitable for both social and private housing.

It also has NHBC Building Control Type Approval and the necessary accreditation for mortgage lenders and insurers.

Complete with fitted kitchen and bathroom in 51m2 modules that can be stacked on top of one another, it competes on cost with traditional housebuilding but demonstrates outstanding green credentials including its steel frame which is 65 per cent recycled, super-insulated walls to minimise heat loss, photovoltaic panels to save energy and generate income, and rainwater harvesting and water saving devices.

As well as the Steni Colour panels for the two-storey Cub House, Steni also supplied Colour and Nature panels to a total of five show houses in the Ideal Village at the Ideal Home Show.

A pair of semis, a single-storey Cub House (clad in the same pearly-white panels as the two-storey version) and an executive home were each designed to meet the needs of a different part of the housing sector.

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