Tarmac Building Products offers ‘pearls of wisdom’ at EcoBuild show
Visitors to the EcoBuild 2012 show next week will be able to travel through time, as the UK’s leading supplier of building products demonstrates its ongoing environmental vision – from Kyoto to tomorrow.
They will also be in with the chance of winning a relaxing Eco-retreat weekend in Wales, courtesy of Tarmac Building Products.
The company is enlisting the help of ‘Albert Einstein’ at the show, running at ExCel, London, from 20-22 March, to explain how its traditional masonry products can help achieve bespoke cost effective and energy efficient solutions.
Albert will be guiding visitors to the Tarmac stand (N430) where they can follow the company’s environmental timeline from the Kyoto Protocol, the international commitment to address global warming, through its own sustainable home building project, to the technological advances it can offer to tomorrow’s constructions.
And, with TermoDeck, Tarmac will illustrate how specifiers can meet the most up-to-date environmental legislation with its groundbreaking active thermal mass system, which can reduce energy bills by as much as 50 per cent.
Geoff Russell-Smith, TermoDeck’s General Manager said: “TermoDeck actively uses the building’s thermal mass to provide ventilation, heating and cooling, without the need for air conditioning units or heating. As well as making new buildings more sustainable, it also reduces capital costs and increases design flexibility.
“TermoDeck helped the £12m Jubilee Library, in Brighton, to achieve an ‘excellent’ BREEAM rating for low energy consumption and provides a comfortable working environment all year round.”
Tarmac Building Products leads the way in the ‘fabric first’ approach to sustainable construction, rising to the challenge of specifiers and builders to deliver thermally efficient bespoke solutions.
Ian Gray (Tarmac’s Technical Manager) added: “The Tarmac Homes Project was a test-bed initiative, in conjunction with affordable housing developer Lovell and the University of Nottingham’s Department of the Built Environment.
“The project built two landmark homes, creating a blueprint for zero-carbon home building using traditional masonry materials.
“Both properties are conventional semi-detached houses, demonstrating the ‘future-proofing’ capabilities of brick and block materials and enabling us to measure the commercial viability of low and zero-carbon homes.
“At EcoBuild, we invite anyone interested in sustainable building to come and share our expertise, learn about the work we are doing today to address tomorrow’s environmental challenges.”
Visitors to the Tarmac stand will have the chance to win a luxury Eco-retreat weekend for two, ‘glamping’ in a tipi or yurt in the glorious Welsh mountains. Also up for grabs on the stand is an Apple iPad.
For more information visit www.tarmacbp.com/ecobuild
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