A Scottish company is pushing the boundaries in the fast-moving battle to reduce CO2 emissions in the new build housing market.

Scotframe Timber Engineering, one of the country's most successful timber frame manufacturers, has introduced to the market a new closed panel timber frame system which will dramatically reduce the amount of energy required to run a house with the added benefits of a faster and simplified erection process.

Supawall, which Scotframe is now making under licence at its state-of-the-art factories in Inverurie and Cumbernauld, is a revolutionary system which effectively locks together with airtight seals to create the walls, roof and floor of a structure.


The beauty of award-winning Supawall is that it is precision crafted in Scotframe's factories and injected with a very high performance insulation which is 'A' rated under BRE's Green Guide To Specification. It also contains no CFC's or HCFC's, an ODP of zero, a GWP of less than 5 and fills every nook and cranny in the panel.

This means that, once the panels are fitted together on site, the integrity of the "thermal envelope" is assured. The insulation and air tightness is so effective that the need for a traditional central heating system is removed.

With strict new thermal targets scheduled for inclusion in the 2010 and 2013 Building Regulation revisions, housing associations and local authorities are expressing early interest in how Supawall can help them reduce reliance on fossil fuels, cut CO2 emissions and seriously combat fuel poverty by slashing heating bills for tenants.

(GK/JM)