SCOTFRAME VAL-U-THERM CASE STUDY
Scotframe Val-U-Therm® in the Falkland Islands
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Scotframe Timber Engineering has supplied a superb new 335 m detached home using the industry leading off-site
construction Val-U-Therm® building system. This 6-bedroom 1¾ storey house was shipped by container to a new
development near Stanley in the Falkland Islands.
Key Facts:
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The Falkland Islands receives its first technically advanced 21 century Val-U-Therm® home
Off-site constructed at Scotframe Timber Engineering, Inverurie, Scotland
Supplied as a full kit including wall cladding, roof sheeting, windows, doors, sanitary ware, kitchen units, etc.
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Using 140 mm Val-U-Therm® high thermal performance walls with a U-value of 0.15 W/m K
Outstanding gable feature to front elevation wall with 184mm studs
All designed and supplied in 1800mm modules for containerisation
The Client Perspective:
The Falkland Islands are located over 300 miles (483 km) from South
America and have a maritime climate in the transition region between
the temperate and subarctic zones. To put this in a Northern
hemisphere context, a maritime subarctic climatic zone is found in the
Scottish Highlands, coastal Iceland, Faroe Islands and Norway.
The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate as it is regulated
by the large oceans which surround it. The temperature of the islands
fluctuates within a narrow band, not reaching higher than 24 °C or lower
than −5 °C. The annual average is around 5.6 °C hence the client, Mr.
Colin Summers, required a warm, draught proof, comfortable home with
remarkably low energy bills - hence his choice of Scotframe Val-U-Therm®.
Winds mostly come from the west and, although snow falls, it does not
settle due to the strength of these winds - hence the important
requirement for being draught proof and for excellent air tightness also
provided by Val-U-Therm®.
With the long hours of daylight in the summer coupled with wonderful local scenery, Mr Summers also specified large
window areas which, with his FabricFirst approach, were cleverly traded off with high insulation performance Val-UTherm® building fabric.
Contact your nearest Scotframe office:
www.scotframetimberengineering.co.uk
Inverurie
Tel: 01467 624440 Fax: 01467 624255
e-mail: [email protected]
Dundee (sales office)
Tel: 01382 561772 Fax: 01382 568182
e-mail: [email protected]
Mid Sussex (area sales agent)
Tel: 01273 566286
e-mail: [email protected]
Cumbernauld
Tel: 01236 861200 Fax: 01236 861201
e-mail: [email protected]
Inverness (sales office)
Tel: 01463 717328 Fax: 01463 717196
e-mail: [email protected]
Paignton (area sales agent)
Tel: 01803 267680
e-mail: [email protected]
Description of Project:
The detached house is part of a larger ongoing development at Sapper Hill, just west of Stanley. Sapper Hill was of huge
strategic importance during the Falklands War and is also the site of the important historical landmark, Gaucho Stone
Corral, which is 120m diameter and 3m high.
The layout of this large comfortable detached home is shown below.
As well as the Val-U-Therm® wall panels, Scotframe also supplied Val-U-Therm® insulated apex panels & dormer haffits
together with 300mm deep I-joists for the first floor and roof materials. They also supplied the Marley Eternet Cedral
cement fibre horizontal cladding boards and the Pacific Blue plastic coated steel roof sheeting.
Similarly part of the full kit were Nordan NTech windows, Velux roof-lights, Nordan Balcony external doors, oak internal
doors, Laings Broad Oak kitchen & utility units, sanitary ware from Carron, Hansgrohe, Duravit & Ionic as well as Origins
Dueto bathroom furniture plus stairs, finishings, plasterboard, electrical equipment and Scotframe accessories such as
wardrobes, decking materials, etc. All of these were shipped by container from Scotframe in the UK.
Bob Edwards, Managing Director of Scotframe,
notes, “Whilst we have supplied many homes
to residents of the Falkland Islands over the
years, we are proud to have worked with a
client with a clear project vision, and that we
could achieve this using Val-U-Therm®”.
The Scotframe Val-U-Therm® building panels
were all CAD/CAM (computer-aided design
with computer-aided manufacture) made at
their world-class advanced factory in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. The supremely strong and robust frame construction
gives excellent acoustic insulation properties as well as world-class thermal insulation performance.
The panels are manufactured to exacting standards so that they can be assembled on-site to the highest quality levels
befitting a home of this exceptional standard.
Contact your nearest Scotframe office:
www.scotframetimberengineering.co.uk
Inverurie
Tel: 01467 624440 Fax: 01467 624255
e-mail: [email protected]
Dundee (sales office)
Tel: 01382 561772 Fax: 01382 568182
e-mail: [email protected]
Mid Sussex (area sales agent)
Tel: 01273 566286
e-mail: [email protected]
Cumbernauld
Tel: 01236 861200 Fax: 01236 861201
e-mail: [email protected]
Inverness (sales office)
Tel: 01463 717328 Fax: 01463 717196
e-mail: [email protected]
Paignton (area sales agent)
Tel: 01803 267680
e-mail: [email protected]