London Aquatics CentreProducts from Knauf Insulation’s Polyfoam range have been used to thermally insulate the roof of London’s new 17,500 seat Aquatics Centre.
With the objective of uniting all departments together under one roof, the Knauf Insulation Process and Product Development (PPD) Laboratory building has undergone a refurbishment programme, which has resulted in a highly insulated
First opened in 1957, the prefab house that was previously home to the Ide Hill Scout Group was no longer big enough for the expanding group’s needs.
Knauf Insulation partnered with HIT Entertainment and popular children’s character Bob the Builder to launch Project: Renovate in February 2008 and has been advising children about environmental issues ever since.
The Building Centre, a central information point for all sectors of the construction industry, recently refurbished its London based headquarters.
The Essex Disability Adult Community College in Rochford is a pioneering eco- building built to the Passivhaus Standard, and predicted to operate using only approximately 5 per cent of a traditional building’s energy costs.
An ambitious project, and one of the first certified PassivHaus homes in the UK - the Denby Dale PassivHaus in West Yorkshire, had to to use 90% less energy for space heating than the average UK dwelling
In early 2009 Knauf Insulation undertook a project to internally insulate an 1890’s
Victorian mid terrace property to current energy standards. The aim was to install
systems that could be undertaken by any competent builder to achieve an
As key sponsors of the Great British Refurb campaign, Knauf Insulation was presented with an opportunity to be involved in a partial whole house low-carbon refurbishment of a Victorian house in Manchester along with Dyson Insulations and Parity Projects.
The new Zaha Hadid designed Museum of Transport, Riverside Project in Glasgow which will open to the public in 2011, will create an iconic transport museum on the banks of the River Clyde.
Work is underway to create a new theatre that will transform the existing 1932 Royal Shakespeare Theatre whilst retaining the original Art Deco and Victorian elements of the building.
The Laurels is a totally unique 200m2 timber frame self build property in Felsted, Essex which had an objective of insulating all faces of the home to a high standard. As well as optimising thermal efficiency through minimising the risk of air
Insulating pitched roofs at rafter level has long been an intricate and complex job and the private developers on this project in Chester were looking for a solution which was not only cost-effective but more importantly easy and quick to install.
On the Egypt Hill, Leckhampstead project in the South-East of England the housebuilder was looking for a Code level 3 solution which would guarantee high levels of energy efficiency and long term performance as well as an insulation material which
Knauf Insulation supplied Rocksilk RainScreen Slab as part of the rainscreen cladding system to the external stone clad façades of the development and internal stone clad stairwell and elevator areas. The specification of Rocksilk RainScreen Slab
The innovative education village is the first project under the Manchester School’s Programme with the aim of uniting the whole community together to make the most of its facilities. The site, due for completion early in 2009, will eventually
The Hub, is an innovative and contemporary seven storey canal-side development of studio,one and two bedroom apartments in Birmingham.
Specialist sustainable development architect, the ZEDfactory and contractors Midas were required by their client, property developers, Robotmother Ltd, to come up with a stone mineral wool solution to fully fill cavity walls in the Jubilee Wharf, Penryn,
Aberdeen’s Malcolm Allan Housing and TCD Architects have created three hundred houses in sought-after Westgate, a beautiful countryside location outside the market town of Inverurie. The development comprises fourteen styles of residential
In phase one of the Upton project, developers Mansells Construction specified 5,200m2 of Knauf Insulation's Crown DriTherm Cavity Slab 32 for use in 300mm cavities, using two layers of 100mm thickness and one layer of 75mm thickness. Crown DriTherm