Super-tight Newburgh homes set the standard
Tenants First has set a new standard in thermal performance, recording the best ‘air tightness’ yet for new homes in our area. In our quest for the highest standard of energy efficiency and insulation in our new homes, rigorous testing is undertaken to ensure that our building methods are delivering the best product.
Part of this process involves ‘air permeability’ testing to gauge how much the building leaks air – an important factor in heat loss from a home. This traces any unwanted draught and uncontrolled airflow through the house. Too much air leakage leads to heat loss resulting in higher C02 emissions. The pressure testing reveals how many air changes per hour the building fabric naturally allows, with the lower the figure the better.
Building standards currently require new homes to achieve 10 changes per hour as a maximum, and recent best practice in our sector has been 5 changes per hour. At Cruickshank Court, the homes are rated at an impressive 3.65, achieving a much-improved performance.
This is due to a high standard of build quality. As our Development Co-ordinator, George Catto (responsible for quality control on new build) comments “the Newburgh results demonstrate the high attention to detail of CHAP construction during the build process, and this was reflected in an extremely low level of ‘snags’ or defects identified at completion”
Denis McIntosh, Contracts Manager added “CHAP are very pleased with the air tightness of the new homes at Cruickshank Court, and it gives me and my site team particular satisfaction to know that our work has set such high standards’.
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