Sustainable Building Products and Solutions
Kingspan being a global provider of high performance sustainable building products and solutions for the construction industry is committed to producing products that deliver less energy, less cost and less carbon and therefore reducing the impact buildings have on our environment throughout their lifecycle.
Light on energy
Kingspan high performance insulated envelope systems can save up to 40% of the building’s energy consumption.
Kingspan EnvelopeFirst™, in conjunction with Energy Efficiency Measures (EEM’s), is the first step on the route to Net-Zero Energy Buildings.
Light on the planet
Kingspan high performance insulated panel systems provide guaranteed insulation continuity, thermal reliability and airtightness over the whole life of a building compared with fibrous insulation materials.
1m2 of Kingspan insulated panels reduces energy consumption by 5100 kWh and saves 260.00 Euros*
*Total savings over 60 years
High on efficiency
The next step on the route to Net-Zero Energy Buildings is the integration of renewable technologies – Kingspan Insulate & Generate.
Insulate & Generate enables the building to achieve net-zero energy targets and even become a net-energy producer.
Research & Development
Ensuring a continuous flow of new product developments has always been a core theme throughout Kingspan and the development of solutions that benefit the environment is a key business opportunity for the Group. Research and development projects range from evolutionary chemical and structural improvements in our offering, to more fundamental changes in materials and building envelope solutions.
Product Lifecycle Assessments (LCA)
Kingspan is fully committed to developing products that are sustainable throughout their lifecycle, from manufacturing and application to their disposal. Conducting lifecycle assessments is an integral part of assessing the environmental impact and identifying areas for improvement. As we all work together toward NetZero buildings, real environmental metrics and increased transparency on product lifecycle will become increasingly essential tools.
Kingspan Insulated Panels continue to work with Building Research Establishment Group (BRE) to understand how their products, materials and systems will perform and how they might improve the environmental performance of their products. The objective is to ensure sustainability is considered in the design, manufacture, installation, use and disposal of Kingspan Insulated Panel products and services. The key product ranges manufactured in the UK are certified by BRE Green Guide to Specification A+ ratings. The Guide provides relevant information to help decision-making by translating numerical lifecycle assessment data into a simple A+ to E scale of environmental ratings. This enables specifiers to make comparisons between materials and components.
In Australia, Kingspan Panels was the first company in the sector to produce externally verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for all products manufactured at the Sydney facility. Completed in 2012, the EPD provides an externally certified Life Cycle Assessment of its insulated panel products and calculates the environmental footprint of a product at each stage of the supply chain through to end of life. There is no national framework for the definition and maintenance of standards for Environmental Product Declarations in Australia but applying the UK BRE Green Guide to Specification an A+ rating would have been achieved.
In 2011, Kingspan Insulated Panels North America produced an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its roof and wall systems, the first of its kind awarded to a North America based manufacturer of exterior roof and wall panels.
In the Insulation division, lifecycle assessments have now been carried out for the vast majority of insulation products manufactured at the Pembridge facility in the UK.