Insulation

• The project is a renovation of a group of industrial buildings from the beginning of the 20th century • The complex is located in the new Manzanares-South area and has Amazon as one of its new tenants • 14,500 m² of URSA TERRA, 45 and 65 mm thick, have been installed This summer, Amazon Spain is expected to relocate its headquarters from the town of Pozuelo de Alarcón to the new southern area of the city of Madrid. With this move, the company will nearly double its office space in Spain. The multinational company has chosen one of the buildings from Prado Business Park, managed by AXA IM-Real Estate. Located in Ramírez de Prado street, it occupies what used to be the headquarters of the company Standar Eléctrica (later Alcatel),... More

• It is the largest low-cost airline terminal in the world • URSA XPS HL is an excellent material to insulate floors and ceilings With 50 million passengers arriving and departing every year, Kuala Lumpur’s airport is one of the busiest in the world. Aiming to satisfy its growing needs, the building has undergone several extensions over the past few years. The latest of these expansions is the new Klia 2 Terminal, 2 kilometres away from the main airport terminal. The new terminal is designed to serve the great demand for low-cost flights in the region. In fact, it is the largest terminal to serve these kinds of airlines in the world, with a capacity to welcome 45 million passengers a year. Together with 4 kilometres of runways and th... More

This ambitious project in Scheveningen was not only to enlarge the traditional townhouse, but also to create a comfortable climate in house with natural ventilation and high levels of insulation. With an extra floor added to the house, the family got a lot of extra space in m2 for new rooms. But the upgrading was also meant to improve the energylabel of the house from E to A. Access, ventilation and excellent thermal performance Glazing Vision attributed to this project with a VisionVent Access Hatch. Good for ventilation and for accessing the roof for maintenance of the solar panels. And of course, to watch the fireworks on the beach in Scheveningen. The VisionVent has an excellent overall thermal performance with concealed insula... More

IKEA was part of the Warehouse Retail Scheme (WRS) which was spearheaded by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The WRS was launched by the EDB in April 2004 to encourage companies to make sizeable investments and establish regional responsibilities in Singapore by allowing greater flexibility in industrial land use. Where previously industrial land could not be used for any retail activity, companies under the WRS can co-locate integrated business models with regional headquarters, along with industrial and retail activities to reap the benefits from operational and cost efficiencies of synergistic colocation of operations. Being in the Tampines location gave IKEA the opportunity to build a full-size store to cater for the S... More

The fresh-looking Cardiff City Stadium opened in 2009 and plays host to football and rugby matches, as well as international football and concerts. This new multi-purpose stadium in Cardiff, Wales is an excellent example of using composite panels to achieve modern building aesthetics. Pure performance Locally designed, locally produced and built to benefit the local community as part of a revitalization project, Cardiff City Stadium was designed to make a difference. The stadium was created to serve a number of purposes, chiefly as home to the Cardiff City Football Club & Cardiff Blues Rugby. It was designed to deliver multiple benefits to the teams, fans, the local community, Cardiff and, indeed, all of Wales. The stadium's ext... More

A combination of old and new building maintains the center of the city and at the same time it becomes a modern, energy efficient building with a high indoor comfort. Transparent building structure and energy-efficient insulation A well-functioning administration needs clear structures, was the guiding principle during the planning of the new city hall of the city of Gladbeck. Situated in the center of the city, action was being taken in the middle of 2005, to expand the historic city hall from the year 1908 with an adjacent new construction. This was done within the framework of a PPP project between the city and Hochtief. The new construction replaces two office towers, which had to be torn down due to PCB pollution. City and build... More

This retirement village was designed to meet the needs of older people and to become an energy efficient residential model. The KfW40 Standard was met by insulating the exterior walls and the roof with the ROCKWOOL solutions Kernrock and Klemmrock. A finished building project in Schermbeck in Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of overall 16 freehold flats. All apartments are specially customized to the needs of older people. The whole project was from an energetic point of view build as a model for the future. The philosophy behind it is the possibility for all generations to move around freely, which is possible in this kind of projects. All apartments are free of barriers and are accessible in a wheelchair from the underground car park to... More

A semi-detached house in the district Weitmar of Bochum was already around 75 years old, when its inhabitants, a young couple with two small children decided to comprehensively renovate and expand the house. Energetically extensively renovated semi-detached house In the beginning, there was a detailed requirements catalogue, which was developed together with a Dortmund engineering office to bring an ambitious aim within reach: The fully renovated building should fulfill the overall criteria for sustainability. The industrialization and the enormous upswing in the Ruhr district posed a serious problem there in the 1930's: Living space for employees working in the industry and mining companies became scarce. The "Bochumer Verein" (Boch... More

In the historic setting of a former brewery near Düsseldorf, a restoration was carried out with a lot of expertise and became Germany’s largest exhibition of high quality furniture. All insulation works for roofs and facades, partition walls and the technical isolation, were carried out with ROCKWOOL products. The facade was also given a colored accent using ROCKPANEL cladding. Germany's biggest exhibition of office furniture was created inside an historical former brewery near Düsseldorf. The project required plenty of expert knowledge to achieve successful completion. The insulation on the roof, the fascade and inside the building has all been completed with ROCKWOOL productis. To complete the project, the facade was enhanced using co... More

The five-story apartment building from 1962 underwent comprehensive energy renovation, reducing energy consumption and improving living comfort significantly. Effective thermal insulation of the walls and a heating system supplied with energy-saving ROCKWOOL® technologies have lowered energy consumption by 67% for the entire heating season and reduced maintenance costs effectively. Using ROCKWOOL insulation also provided the building with increased acoustic comfort and improved fire safety. More

ROCKWOOL Benelux plays an active role in this aspiration as illustrated by a special construction project in the city of Roosendaal. The project comprises the first passive houses for a housing corporation in the Netherlands. The Aramis Housing Corporation in Roosendaal has already been frequently confronted by the problems of rising energy costs for its tenants. To gain some experience with new, energy-saving construction concepts, Aramis issued the contract for the construction of three passive houses. "The passive house concept is relatively new to the Netherlands. It requires a transformation in the Dutch way of thinking about energy efficiency and construction. But it has a lot to contribute to the development of energy-neutral h... More