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New Scottish
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Kingspan Insulation
Building Futures:
Managing Energy
in the Built
Environment
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n the 1st October the updated
Section 6 (energy) of the Scottish
Building Standards came into force,
bringing with it significantly tightened
carbon emission targets. To help simplify
the process of achieving compliance,
Kingspan Insulation has released two new
guides, covering domestic and nondomestic buildings.
The guides can be freely downloaded
from Kingspan Insulation’s website:
www.kingspaninsulation.co.uk/buildingregs.
They offer a comprehensive review of the
revised requirements within Section 6
(energy), explaining how to demonstrate
and evidence compliance, and providing
an overview of the notional building
specifications for new buildings.
Along with the prescribed, notional
approach, Section 6 also offers a great deal
of flexibility providing the property meets
the target emission rate and limiting fabric
performance factors. However, this
flexibility can make it difficult to identify
the best route to compliance. The
“simplifying the complex” section provides
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clear advice, and recommended U-values
to enable a fabric-first construction which
minimises costly renewables.
To help make the most of the available
space, the guides also look at some of the
most common insulation applications,
offering a comparison of the construction
thicknesses required to achieve a compliant
U-value with different insulation materials,
including ultra-thin Vacuum Insulation
Panels. Finally, the guides cover all of the
requirements for refurbishment applications
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