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News • News • 30 Nov 2021
Sustainable farming education centre FarmED by Timothy Tasker includes exemplary energy-efficient mixed-use farm buildings
Recently completed FarmED at Honeydale Farm by Timothy Tasker is a sustainable farming education centre in the Cotswolds. With environment and regeneration at its core, FarmED was established as a demonstration farm to show how regenerative farming techniques can combat climate change, as well as educate communities, farmers, and governing bodies about sustainable farming methods. The Farm’s mission extends to its architecture, which includes three energy-efficient mixed-used farm buildings.
Tim Crocker
The three farm buildings take the form of long timber barns arranged around a central courtyard, a formation that draws on the traditional farmsteads of the Cotswolds region. The buildings and the courtyards were desi... More
Product • By Rockpanel • Rockpanel Stones
Rockpanel Stones
Solid as a rock, yet highly flexible. Rockpanel Stones panels offer you the best of both worlds: they look like stone and have the same fire-resilient qualities, but they can also be bent and curved. Order your samples here
Once you’ve curved and placed the panels in the way you like, you don’t have to worry about shrinking or expanding. As the panels do not respond to changes in temperature or moisture, dimensional stability for the years to come is guaranteed. This allows you to use narrow joints
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As the Rockpanel Stones panels are light-weight, they are very easy to handle and particularly suitable for use on high-rise buildings.
Going for unusual recesses or other striking features? Virtually everything is pos... More
Project • By Rockpanel • Individual Buildings
Innovation Centre ‘Think Tank’
The Think Tank at Lincoln Innovation Centre is dressed for battle, contours evoke imagery of the army tank. Rivets are featured as a design statement to further enhance the military feel, with the name of the building itself adding to the overall impression.
But Rockpanel Chameleon brings an extra dimension to the building. Its pearlescent paint system embodies the building’s purpose: innovation. When viewed from one angle, the facade panels are predominantly a military-style grey and green. From straight on they give the impression of bronze, and in direct sunlight the sun they have a dazzling orange glow.
“The tank reference is not meant to be visible to every visitor, but I like buildings that echo their surroundings,” says Archite... More
Project • By ROCKWOOL International A/S • Housing
Dallfield Court Housing Estate
An energy-efficient facelift for almost any older building: ETICS, or rendered facades can be an effective, economical means of accomplishing multiple objectives. They can help boost energy efficiency, enhance comfort and safety and improve a structure’s appearance.
An energy-efficient facelift for almost any older building
ETICS, or rendered facades can be an effective, economical means of accomplishing multiple objectives. They can help boost energy efficiency, enhance comfort and safety and improve a structure's appearance.
For older buildings such as the four tower blocks comprising the Dallfield Court housing estate in Dundee, Scotland, an ETICS solution can extend service life by decades, with twenty-first century energy perfo... More