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April 2008 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 14  
In this issue
UK first for housebuilders
News archive

March 2008

Get up to date with new Specifiers Guide

Litchfield Group makes a stand in Europe

Boom for Sheerframe Bi-Fold doors

Curves in all the right places

Sheerframe pioneers fire door options

January 2008

L.B. Plastics celebrates 30 years stateside

On the road to greener distribution

Stylish student outlook with Sheerframe

New ICF system gains BBA approval

New facility expands colour options

Earlier issues

October 2007
August 2007
June 2007
March 2007
November 2006
August 2006
July 2006
May 2006
March/April 2006
February 2006

January 2006

SPECIAL BULLETIN
UK first for housebuilders

New 0.8W/m2K windows meet zero carbon homes challenge

Leading British window systems company, L.B. Plastics Ltd, has developed the new Sheerframe HED window which brings together a thermally superior profile system and new manufacturing technology. 

The Sheerframe HED (Homogenous Energy Dynamics) system creates stronger, lighter and significantly more thermally efficient windows, offering housebuilders a simple and cost effective route to achieving window U-values of just 0.8W/m2K in their drive towards viable zero carbon homes.  Such a low U value is equivalent to the rating required for Category 5 and 6 star rated dwellings in the Code for Sustainable Homes.

Sheerframe HED allows window U-values to be cut significantly while still providing homebuyers with low maintenance, visually appealing and enhanced security windows designed to cut energy bills.  Like all Sheerframe systems, broader sustainability issues are also comprehensively addressed - the profile is lead-free in composition and 100% recyclable.

David Strang, Sheerframe marketing director at L.B. Plastics says, “This new system revolutionises the performance of windows and how we fabricate them.  There are multiple benefits for housebuilders, principally the HED system’s ability to achieve an ultra-low U-value, well below the 1.8W/m2K routinely specified.

“Until now, performance at this level could only be achieved by very specialist and fantastically expensive, often unsuitable windows with long delivery lead times, from northern Europe.  The Sheerframe HED system is designed specifically for the mainstream UK housebuilding industry and is available now.”

Builders aiming to improve the thermal performance and therefore the star rating of their houses may use these low U value windows to help lift the overall dwelling SAP rating as the building regulation challenges get tighter and tighter in 2010, 2013 and 2016 on the road to Class 6 performance and Zero Carbon Homes.  Where builders may struggle to find practical, cost-effective zero carbon answers in all areas of house construction, having a 2016 window solution today will help offset some of the more costly and intractable aspects of zero carbon construction, which may not have reached a reliable and accessible level as yet. 

David Strang adds, “The Sheerframe HED system delivers windows in all the most popular styles in numerous coloured foil and painted finishes, including standard casements, fully reversibles and tilt & turns.  Windows made using HED retain their excellent visual appeal which is perfectly suited to British architectural styles.”

Sheerframe is widely specified by many of the UK’s leading housebuilders and the company is already in negotiation with several to supply Sheerframe HED via its national network of registered fabricators and installers.

For further information on about all the Sheerframe systems contact L.B. Plastics on 01773 852311 or visit www.sheerframe.co.uk.

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of L.B. Plastics' technical
literature.

The new Sheerframe
Specifiers Guide

Sheerframe Bi-Fold
doors - technical
datasheet

Sheerframe Green
Guide - towards zero
carbon homes

Sheerframe vertically
sliding sash windows
for new homes

The environmental
window - a guide to
sustainable windows,
doors & conservatories

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