Malcolm Allan Housing Project
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| Products
Used |
Crown Rafter Roll 32 |
| Project |
Malcolm Allan Housing Project, Westgate, Inverurie |
| Main Contractor |
Malcolm Allen |
| Architect |
TCD Architects |
| Knauf Insulation Manager |
John Band |
| “Knauf Insulation’s Crown Rafter
Roll 32 has been spot on. It is easy to cut and install, and
ensures all our homes have excellent insulation capabilities. With
Home Information Packs now high on any buyer’s agenda, it is
crucial that our properties perform in the insulation
stakes..” - Bert Lyon, Malcolm Allan
Housing. |
Challenge
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 properties,
from two bedroom to seven bedroom homes. With four years’ work left
to complete the project, over half the homes have already been
sold.
Malcolm Allan Housing wanted to use an insulation product in the
homes which would thermally and acoustically insulate the pitched
roofs of its three hundred residential property development at
Westgate, Inverurie (Aberdeen). It was also essential that the
product was easy to cut and install with the vast number of homes
to cover.
Solution
All properties have been kitted out with Knauf Insulation’s
Crown Rafter Roll 32, an unfaced semi-rigid roll of glass mineral
wool with extra high thermal performance.
Insulating between the rafters of pitched roofs of both new
build and existing properties, Crown Rafter Roll 32 is easy to cut
and friction fit between rafters. Crown Rafter Roll 32 has a
thermal conductivity of 0.032 W/mK and is therefore ideal for the
properties in the Westgate development, which need to achieve
U-values of 0.2 W/m2K.
Crown Rafter Roll 32 has excellent sound absorption
characteristics. Furthermore, it allows water vapour to pass freely
through it, enabling constructions to breathe. It can be used
either as a single or double layer between rafters, or as the first
layer of a two-layer system in combination with Polyfoam
Linerboard. Malcolm Allan Housing has friction fitted its pitched
roofs with Crown Rafter Roll, thereby completely filling the rafter
spacing and eliminating air gaps.
Speaking about the Westgate development and the installation of
Crown Rafter Roll 32, Malcolm Allan Housing’s Bert Lyon commented:
“Knauf Insulation’s Crown Rafter Roll 32 has been spot on. It is
easy to cut and install, and ensures all our homes have excellent
insulation capabilities. With Home Information Packs now high on
any home buyer’s agenda, it is crucial that our properties perform
in the insulation stakes.”
Made from non-combustible inorganic glass wool, Crown Rafter
Roll 32 is odourless, rot proof and nonhygroscopic. It does not
sustain vermin, and will not encourage the growth of fungi, mould
or bacteria. Crown Rafter Roll 32 is made from recycled glass
bottles and its manufacture has a low impact on the environment and
is classified as Zero ODP and Zero GWP. Up to fifteen glass bottles
can be used in one roll.
