Posts Tagged ‘casestudies’

External Regeneration of the Flamsteed Estate

Client: United Living Measures: External Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation Location: Greenwich Date: 2020 – 2022 Value: Approx. £1m The Challenge Cornerstone was appointed by main contractor United Living to complete insulation works to nine medium rise residential blocks for end client the Royal Borough of Greenwich in 2019.   Our external wall insulation package was part…

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Insulating Swedish Timber Framed Properties

Client: Guildford Borough Council Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Guildford Date: March 2020 – October 2021 Value: Approx. £250k The Challenge Cornerstone was appointed by Guildford Borough Council to deliver a programme of external wall insulation to properties within their housing stock, as their budget allowed.  Successful via an open tender process, Cornerstone was appointed in…

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Energy Efficiency Upgrades at Cumberland House

Client: Cross Keys Homes Measures: External Wall Insulation, Cavity Wall Insulation, Window Replacements and Ventilation Upgrades Location: Peterborough Date:January – December 2021 Value: £1.7m The Challenge Cross Keys Homes is a Peterborough-based housing association that manages over 11,000 homes across the East of England.  In 2020, Cross Keys Homes engaged us to deliver a package…

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Social Housing Whole House Retrofit

Client: Cambridge City Council Measures: External Wall Insulation, Solar PV, Loft Insulation Location: Cambridge Date:March 2021 – October 2021 Value: Approx. £1.2m The Challenge Cornerstone had worked with Cambridge City Council for a number of years, installing EWI via main contractors and also on private sector schemes.  In 2020, we were directly awarded a new…

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Park Home Insulation in Central Bedfordshire

Client: Central Bedfordshire Council Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Three Star and Whipsnade Parks, Bedfordshire Date:October 2020 – August 2021 Value: Approx. £900k The Challenge In August 2020, Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) worked with Cornerstone to develop an application for Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) 1A funding, with a view to externally insulating…

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EWI Reinstatement on High Rise Social Housing

Client: Osborne Property Services Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Slough Date: 2019 – 2020 Value: Approx. £670,000 The Challenge Cornerstone was appointed to a high profile external wall insulation reinstatement project in 2019, working in partnership with main contractor Osborne Property Services.    The project involved the removal of the existing external wall insulation on…

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External Wall Insulation to Swedish Timber Frame Property

Client: South Cambridgeshire District Council Measures: External Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation Location: Carlton, Newmarket Date: June 2019 Value: Approx. £12,000 The Challenge Cornerstone has insulated hundreds of solid wall properties for our long term client South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) since 2012, including a number of properties of non-traditional construction – mostly Wimpey No Fines…

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Park Home Insulation at Ashdale Park

Client: West Suffolk Council Measures: External Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation, Underfloor Insulation Location: Brandon, Suffolk Date: December 2018 – February 2019 Value: £167,000 The Challenge In 2018, West Suffolk Council set aside funds to support park home residents improve the thermal efficiency of their properties, thereby reducing energy bills and improving health and wellbeing.  …

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External Upgrade to 1920s Solid Wall Houses

Client: Vinci Facilitiesl Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Rochford, Essex Date: July – September 2018 Value: Approx. £275,000 The Challenge Cornerstone worked with Vinci Facilities for the first time in 2018, having been engaged as a specialist subcontractor to install external wall insulation on a number of domestic properties for the social landlord Sanctuary Housing. …

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Urgent High Rise Cladding Removal

Client: United Living Measures: Rainscreen Cladding Removal Location: Lewisham Date: October – December 2017 Value: Approx. £250,000 The Challenge Following the Grenfell Tower disaster, social landlords carried out a programme of tests on their high rise properties to determine their fire safety. When three blocks of flats in Lewisham failed these tests in summer 2017,…

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