Get to Grips with BCAR with Kingspan Insulated Panels
Ger Higgins, Sales Director at Kingspan Insulated Panels Ireland, explains how the company can help customers get to grips with the new Building Control Regulations.
The updated Building Control (Amendment) Regulations that came into force in March this year have had a profound impact on all project delivery stakeholders.
Fundamentally, the new regulations are all about increased accountability. Architects, specifiers and contractors now have much stronger obligations to ensure quality control at every stage of construction.
On the whole, this change ought to benefit everybody in the industry. Provided companies get to grips with working in the new regulatory environment rapidly, a more holistic approach to project planning, with clearly defined responsibilities, will result in better building performance and happier clients.
To ensure this happens, trusted manufacturers should take the lead in guiding customers through these changes, providing them with expert technical support as well as the right products and solutions, to enable easy and cost-effective compliance with all regulations.
At Kingspan Insulated Panels, we believe that this support is our responsibility as one of the industry’s leading providers of high performance building envelopes. In our 40 years in the construction industry, we’ve seen the effect of changes to regulations on our customers first-hand. That’s why we’ve developed our unique support offering, helping them navigate the ever-changing regulatory waters.
Our specialist team is on hand to provide full technical support at any stage of a project. Many of our customers rely on our technical team to help them at an early stage, to ensure the optimal design is created and the most suitable products are specified, while other customers ask for our support later, during the on-site installation. Whether it’s a general query about the suitability of a certain façade type, or a more detailed examination of the energy performance of a building junction, our team is on hand to provide expert advice.
Beyond technical support, our products and solutions have been designed with future-proofed compliance in mind. Many of the products in our full Kingspan Insulated Panels range are fully certified to FM, LPCB, CE and DOP requirements, meaning they can meet almost any demand.
Finally, all of our products come with a comprehensive set of guarantees, covering their coating, durability, structural, fire and thermal performance in a single package.
When you consider the ease and speed of build of our insulated panel systems, their market-leading thermal performance, and their excellent fire, structural and airtightness, it makes a compelling argument for working with Kingspan. In fact, by following Kingspan’s cost-optimal energy-saving buildings model, it becomes possible to construct better buildings, fully compliant with all regulations, at reduced capital and/or operational cost; a rare win-win situation.
While the changed legislation only affects new builds and large extensions for now, the trend for increased accountability is clear. It makes sense for architects, specifiers and contractors to future-proof their businesses by working within the regulations now. Trusted suppliers like Kingspan are on hand to help with that transition.
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