Posts Tagged ‘ewi’

Harnessing the Sun in Bedfordshire

Client: Central Bedfordshire Council Measures: Solar PV Location: Central Bedfordshire Date: January 2024 to March 2025 Value: Approx. £1.4m The Challenge Cornerstone has been working with Central Bedfordshire Council since 2021 on both private and social sector domestic retrofit schemes – insulating hundreds of properties to date. We assisted CBC in their application to the Social…

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Multi-Measure SHDF Wave 2 Scheme

Client: Grand Union Housing Group Measures: EWI, Solar PV, Air Source Heat Pumps, CWI, Loft Insulation Location: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire Date: April 2023 – Current Value: £1.6m to date The Challenge Cornerstone is currently in the second year of SHDF wave 2.1 delivery for Grand Union Housing Group, having installed more than 120 complex…

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High Rise Refurbishment & Cladding Replacement

Client: Accent Housing Measures: EWI and Cladding Replacement, Window and Door Replacement, Roofing Works and Lightning Conduction System Installation Location: Aldershot, Hampshire Date: April 2022 to August 2023 Value: £2.9m The Challenge Cornerstone secured this complex high rise refurbishment project with social landlord Accent Housing in early 2022 via competitive tender.  The contract focused on the…

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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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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 Refurbishment of Social Housing Blocks

Client: Lovell Partnerships Measures: External Wall Insulation, Concrete Repairs, Waterproofing Location: Norwich Value: £400,000 The Challenge Cornerstone was engaged by Lovell Partnerships – part of the Morgan Sindall Group – to complete specialist facades and concrete repair works one some iconic social housing blocks in Norwich.  Lovell Partnerships were the long term main contractor partner…

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Upgrade of Thermal Insulation and Cladding to Bay Windows

Client: Ipswich Borough Council Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Ipswich Date: April 2017 – September 2018 Value: £1.3m The Challenge In January 2017, Cornerstone was awarded a contract to remove existing cladding on Ipswich Borough Council’s stock of two and three storey blocks of flats with bay windows, and replace this with new high performance…

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