Posts Tagged ‘ewi’

Stevenage Borough Council Insulation Programme

Client: United Living Measures: External Wall Insulation, Cavity Wall Insulation and Loft Insulation Location: Stevenage Date: January 2017 to June 2018 Value: £2.1m The Challenge Cornerstone was selected by United Living to support them in delivering their Energy Efficiency contract with Stevenage Borough Council.  The contract involved the retrofit of hundreds of properties, with external…

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Insulating Properties of Non Traditional Construction

Client: Freebridge Community Housing Measures: External Wall Insulation, Internal Wall Insulation, Cavity Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation Location: Norfolk Date: October 2012 – March 2015 Value: £3,000,000 The Challenge Cornerstone began working with Freebridge Community Housing in 2008, originally in a subcontractor role to their main contractor partners including Fosters Property Maintenance, R G Carter and…

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Refurbishment Works for Secure MOD Site

Client: Novus Solutions Measures: External Wall Insulation, Roofing, Electrical Works, Loft Insulation Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk Date: December 2016 – February 2017 Value: £130,000 The Challenge Cornerstone was approached by Novus Solutions, a main contractor specialising in property maintenance services, to provide specialist refurbishment works on an MOD site in Woodbridge, Suffolk.   We were engaged…

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Park Home EWI Scheme in Suffolk

Client: West Suffolk Councils Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Stanton, Suffolk Date: December 2015 – February 2016 Value: £198,000 The Challenge Cornerstone partnered West Suffolk Council to install External Wall Insulation (EWI) on 24 park homes in Shepherds Grove Park in Stanton, Suffolk, between December 2015 and February 2016. The park home site was selected…

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System Built Properties Transformed by External Wall Insulation

Client: Private Landlord Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Milton Keynes Date: July – September 2015 Value: £22,000 The Challenge Cornerstone was approached by a private landlord with four solid wall properties in the Netherfield area of Milton Keynes that required external wall insulation to improve the comfort of his tenants and increase the value of…

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Insulating Non-Traditional BISF Properties

Client: Cambridge City Council Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Foster Road, Cambridge Date: 2009 Value: £130,000 The Challenge British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) houses are of non-traditional construction built post-second world war and are typically semi-detached.  The steel frame of these buildings sits within a wall cavity, with plasterboard forming the internal walls.  The…

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Cornerstone Steps in to Rectify External Wall Insulation Defects

Client: Private Home Owners Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Parkside Estate, Bradford Date: January to April 2014 Value: £200,000 The Challenge In January 2014, we were approached by a ‘big six’ energy company to undertake rectifications to 21 properties on the Parkside Estate in West Bowling, Bradford.  Residents of these properties had signed up to…

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EWI Scheme Transforms Domestic Properties

Client: Guildford Borough Council Measures: External Wall Insulation Location: Guildford Date: March to May 2017 Value: £120,000 The Challenge Cornerstone participated in an OJEU regulated tender process in early 2017 for the opportunity to externally insulate eleven Guildford Borough Council properties.   These two storey semi-detached three bedroom properties at Guildford Park in Guildford had…

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Innovative Park Home Insulation Scheme

Client: Cheshire West and Chester Council Measures: External Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation, Underfloor Insulation, Heat Recovery Ventilation Location: Orchard Park, Elton, Cheshire Date: January to May 2016 Value: £500,000 The Challenge Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) recognised that residents of their many park home sites were at a greater than average risk of fuel…

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Green Deal Communities Fund Delivery

Client: Cambridgeshire Councils Measures: External Wall Insulation, Internal Wall Insulation, Cavity Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation, Oil and Gas Boiler Replacements Location: Cambridgeshire Date: November 2015 – September 2016 Value: £530,000 The Challenge In July 2013, Cambridgeshire’s local authorities were awarded almost £5.7m of Green Deal Communities funding by the Department of Energy and Climate Change…

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