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Recent Press Releases Excel Brings Viscocel to Hillhead: 28 March 2007
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Bungalow Demolition Demonstrates Recyclability of Warmcel Insulation Excel Building Solutions has demonstrated the recyclability of its Warmcel insulation, following the reclamation and reprocessing of 800 Kg of the material from a bungalow in Bristol that was scheduled for demolition. Warmcel was removed from the entire ‘envelope’ of the home; walls, floors and roof, and returned to Excel’s manufacturing facility where it was ‘cleaned’ of impurities such as screws, nails etc and reprocessed along with standard newspaper stock. A key concern of many ‘green’ specifiers, the recyclability of building products at the end of their current life is a major advantage. Manufactured from 100% recycled newspaper, Warmcel already has enviable green credentials; it has extremely low embodied energy and an excellent BRE environmental rating. It has zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and, by reducing heating demand as a result of its excellent insulation performance, Warmcel plays a major part in reducing household CO2 emissions. Warmcel’s ability to be reclaimed from a building at the end of the property’s lifecycle and reprocessed through Excel’s South Wales manufacturing plant further reinforces these environmental credentials. The Bristol bungalow was a 1970s’ timber-frame construction and was being demolished to make way for the redevelopment of a larger area of land, which includes the plot where the bungalow stood. This redevelopment will see the construction of a mixed scheme of private and social housing; part of a five-year, Bristol-wide programme to upgrade 15 run-down areas across the city containing life-expired post war pre fabs. The local authority, Bristol City Council, which owned the land and were overseeing the clearance of the area, contacted Warmcel manufacturer, Excel when the insulation was discovered in the building to arrange for its removal and recycling. |
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