External wall insulation 'crucial' to cutting carbon with cladding materials

09/08/2010 15:00:32

 

External wall insulation (EWI) could play a crucial role in allowing the UK to meet its carbon reduction targets through the use of eco-friendly cladding materials, according to the Insulated Render & Cladding Association (INCA).

The association explains that EWI cladding materials can allow existing structures on brownfield sites to be overhauled rather than demolished and replaced.

Cold bridging can be eliminated, for a thermally upgraded, weather-proof finish to buildings of any type.

According to INCA, protecting homes against heat loss in such a way is likely to prove important if the UK is to reach its ambition of reducing carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050.

This is to be supported through an estimated £1 billion in investment under a variety of different schemes in the immediate future.

Within the next three years, INCA expects to see the Welsh initiative Arbed, along with the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target and Community Energy Saving Programme, total the ten-figure sum for investments into green and sustainable building projects.

Posted by Kim Bardsley

 

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