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The BBA (British Board of Agrement) and RDL (Robust Details Ltd) have joined forces to form a joint venture called Constructive Details Ltd. Under this initiative the two companies aim to work together with the industry to provide solutions on the increasingly complicated, technical and often confusing issue of linear thermal bridging.


Linear thermal bridging (described by a psi-value) can now account for up to 30% of heat loss in a building and with the need to provide more energy efficient buildings on the road to zero carbon, the industry is looking for ways to obtain reliable, favourable and realistic psi-values.


One of the aims by CDL is to facilitate accurate psi-value calculations and are now pleased to announce the launch of the first Constructive Details handbook of masonry detail junctions developed for the Aircrete Products Association. The Handbook is available electronically via a dedicated ‘Resources’ page on the CDL website and can be downloaded free of charge.


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The junctions are for partial fill external wall (16 details) and fulfil party wall (5 details). Another handbook of the same junctions but for a fully fitted external wall cavity is already under assessment.


The main benefits of using Constructive Details are: 


The details have been optimised to provide significantly lower psi-values than those in the ACD’s, leading to a 60% improvement of the overall y value. 


The beginnings of Creative Spaces go back to 2004. Tayside Construction Forum was born out of the success of ‘Building a Better Tayside’. That event comprised a series of presentations, lectures, seminars and workshops that were intended to reach out, not only to those currently involved in design and construction, but to a much wider audience including the general public and importantly children in secondary education and their teachers.


The handbooks contain a complete set of junctions needed to construct a dwelling allowing optimum thermal bridging perform- ance to be achieved. They match the ones currently featured in Appendix K of SAP 2009 with clear and simple drawings, easy to follow examples for achieving the desired psi-values, checklists for use on site and guidance on the amount of insulation needed. 


They are future-proofed - providing the E and P numbers for each junction and providing a range of U values for the plain elements to meet current and future performance all the way up to Passivhaus standards 


Creative Spaces intention was to arrange a design competition that would introduce and encourage S2 students from secondary schools in the local area, to participate in a day long contest with a direct interface between education, design and construction. Importantly it would also give their teachers the opportunity not only to participate, but also take a positive message back to their schools.


They use generic products allowing supply chain flexibility and consequent best costs.


www.constructivedetails.co.uk 01923 665300 Swish Building Products ‘driving efficiency’


Roofline and rainwater manufacturer Swish Building Products has launched its new fleet of eco-lorries as part of the company’s commitment to minimise its environmental impact.


The new 15 strong fleet use the low emission Euro 5 engine, and was commissioned this month as part of Swish’s programme of continual improvement under ISO 14001.


Greg Wilde, Swish Building Products, said, “We achieved an 8.5 per cent cut in fuel consumption of our fleet per tonne of product last year despite increasing sales volumes, this in part achieved through driver training and more efficient route planning.


“But while the fleet is serviced every six weeks to maintain performance, clocking up more than a million miles a year means that even with regular maintenance, there is an inevitable decrease in that performance.


“This, although in itself perhaps very small, can exert a sizeable impact on overall fleet efficiency when the fleet is collectively covering so many miles.


The initial innovation for such a specific event was to use the knowledge, experience and expertise of those involved to help stimulate local school children to perhaps consider a career in the design related professions and/or in the construction industry, increase awareness of their own potential whilst raising and improving the general profile of the construction industry.


The 2004 Creative Spaces event was such a success that it has been repeated every year with schools from Angus, Perth & Kinross and Fife councils now taking part.


The A. Proctor Group were delighted to contribute to the recent Creative Spaces event 2012 by providing Styrofoam for local school children to build architectural models.


Styrofoam is an extruded polystyrene foam material developed by Dow and is more than an effective thermal insulant. It has a unique combination of physical and chemical characteristics that make it a key component within a wide variety of today’s high performance composite structures. Styrofoam is lightweight, yet exceptionally strong, safe in use and capable of being precision-engineered. For use in floors, basements, flat and pitched roofing applications on both new build and refurbishment projects.


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Kilsaran expansion planned for UK market


“On this basis we have decided to make significant investment in new vehicles and we expect to be able to announce a significant further reduction in our carbon footprint as the new fleet comes into operation.”


The new trailers also see a new livery including Kayflow drainage systems, as sister brand to Swish.


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Our aim is to build a strong supplier network with local builder’s merchants and trade professionals, as well as build on relationships with architects, contractors, civil engineers and local authorities. We have been exporting to the UK for over two years now and we felt now was the right time to expand our team to realise our ambitions for sustainable growth within the UK.”


State-of-the-art production and showroom facility


Kilsaran International, manufacturers of concrete products for professional, trade and consumer markets, is expanding its presence in the UK as part of its international growth ambitions.


The Group, founded in 1964 by the McKeown family, is the largest independent concrete products manufacturer in Ireland, with turnover in excess of £60 million, and is planning to build upon this impressive reputation in the UK.


Kilsaran is already well established in the UK and has a network of key industry relationships including builder’s merchants Benchmark Building Supplies. Their involvement with Benchmark has given the Group a local presence based at Trafford Park, Manchester which has strengthened Kilsaran’s UK business base.


Director, Derry McKeown, said “For over five decades we have been manufacturing superior quality concrete products for our customers. Our unrivalled range of products and services has ensured we are the number one in Ireland and it was always our vision to establish and anchor ourselves in the UK.


The Group manufactures paving, walling and pre- mixed concrete products and also mines its raw materials from its own quarries. The emphasis on providing bespoke and innovative solutions to both the commercial and domestic markets will be a primary focus for the UK.


The Group also opened a state-of-the-art production and showroom facility in Ireland recently and prides itself on pushing the boundaries in landscape innovation, whilst providing additional employment in these difficult economic times.


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