Working with housebuilder Persimmon, Prestoplan‘s design team helped build a two-storey detached ‘concept house’ to try to attain the highest possible BRE eco-points rating.
The project, at Irlam in Manchester, used a Prestoplan timber frame made from sustainable Scandinavian pine. It also incorporated the company’s PresWeb floor, which creates space for services within the floor zone.
In addition, the company supplied a tailor-made Kingspan structural insulated panels system (SIPS) roof, which instantly converted the two-storey structure into three storeys, including a fully-insulated habitable loft space.
Prestoplan technical director Ian Loughane said: “The SIPS roof consists of bonded rigid insulation foam panels. This means the whole roof is totally insulated to the standard required of a loft room before it gets to the site.”
He said it had been an important project for Prestoplan to be involved with: “The construction used in the eco-home project was at the cutting edge of research into the type of building techniques that we, in the construction industry, can introduce to minimise harm to the environment.
“This eco-home will be assessed over the long-term to judge the efficiency of many of its innovations. The most successful will influence Persimmon housing developments of the future.”
