RECTICEL Insulation has provided details of a cavity wall system project it carried out for a prestige housing development in Pluckley, Kent.
Almost 9,000m2 of the firm’s Eurowall Cavity was installed at Otium Lake, a 31-home ‘exemplar’ development built on a former brickwork site by Hibau Group.
The project includes four and five-bedroom energy-smart homes, a private lake, communal areas and acres of surrounding greenery and woodland. With sustainability a key aspect of the design, the choice of cavity wall insulation was said to be crucial to ensuring regulation energy performance was met.
Following a specification change and consultations between Hibau Group and Recticel, 100mm Eurowall Cavity panels were found to be the ‘ideal’ solution.
Eurowall Cavity contains precision-cut straight edges to ensure gaps between panels are kept to a minimum. Rachel Hillsmith, assistant quantity surveyor at Hibau Group, said, “Ultimately, the specification of Eurowall Cavity was about cost saving without sacrifice to quality.”
