Achieving the required levels of thermal performance, airtightness and moisture control within the building envelope is a critical part of a build. The new working partnership between Glidevale Protect and Superglass Insulation brings together their respective expertise in these key areas with both manufacturers offering insulating products for the building fabric, adding value to the construction with solutions that are tried and tested to achieve high energy efficiency and compliance when used together as a full system.

As part of this collaboration, Glidevale Protect and Superglass Insulation have launched a joint brochure that provides customers with a handy resource that can be downloaded from both companies’ websites. The new literature effectively illustrates how Glidevale Protect’s external and internal reflective wall membranes and Superglass Insulation’s glass mineral wool insulation can be used together within a wall build up to help achieve low U-values and maximise energy efficiency.

By including both product categories, the brochure gives housebuilders, specifiers and timber frame manufacturers access to key product performance information in one place. It also demonstrates how they can be used together effectively to enhance thermal performance, airtightness and moisture control. 

Glidevale Protect and Superglass Insulation both have decades of experience and between them, provide a range of technical support services covering U-Value calculations, condensation risk analysis and Psi-value calculations. Both companies are fully committed to the area of sustainability and with the availability of key product Environmental Product Declarations, are focused on providing life cycle data to help give clarity and reassurance to designers, specifiers and housebuilders.

John Mellor, head of marketing at Glidevale Protect, said: “For a home to be energy efficient and meet the required regulations it’s important for the individual materials specified as part of the building envelope to complement each other as a system and enhance the overall thermal performance. Working collaboratively with manufacturers like Superglass Insulation is key to helping to reduce the performance gap and ensure new homes perform to the levels they have been designed. We like to work closely with manufacturers such as Superglass Insulation and this joint initiative was a natural fit in particular as we align on several important areas including our commitment to sustainability and technical transparency.”

Tony Gordon, head of product management at Superglass Insulation added: “Working with Glidevale Protect optimises the synergy between our offerings. Our products work together to insulate the wall structure and encouraging specifiers to view them as part of a system rather than as individual elements is a key part of the fabric first approach. We also have a common bond of sustainability, with live initiatives underway on both sides to reduce our carbon footprint as well as our products helping to improve the overall energy efficiency of the building fabric.”

The next stage of the partnership will see Glidevale Protect and Superglass Insulation work together both commercially and technically with a combined product offering to enhance a wall structure.