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Kingspan TEK Achieves BRE Environmental Profile
27 Feb 2009
Kingspan Off-Site’s TEK Building System has achieved the highest Green Guide ratings in the BRE’s Certified Environmental Profiles Scheme, further highlighting the exceptional sustainability credentials of the system.
Providing standardised and independent information about the environmental impact of a building product or component, the BRE Certified Environmental Profile Scheme enables specifiers to consider the environmental effects of a building design at an early stage. An effective method of assessing a building product’s environmental impact, the scheme examines a number of sustainability categories, including ozone depletion, consumption of minerals and water, emissions of pollutants into the air and water, as well as the quantity of waste sent for disposal.
Awarded a Green Guide A+ rating for its specification on external walls, the Kingspan TEK Building System comprises 110mm high performance CFC/HCFC-free rigid urethane insulation sandwiched between two sheets of OSB/3 (Oriented Strand Board). Accounting for the largest proportion by mass of the Kingspan TEK Building System, OSB has a positive effect on the environmental impact due its ability to sequester carbon.
Paul Newman, technical director at Kingspan Off-Site comments:
“The Green Guide ratings are an ideal way for specifiers to
consider the environmental sustainability of building elements.
Achieving an A+ BRE Certified Environmental Profile rating for the
Kingspan TEK Building System further consolidates Kingspan
Off-Site’s commitment to environmental sustainability issues
and makes the product’s specification even more
compelling.”
