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Product Innovation Award
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PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD
Category: A wide ranging category open to innovative new products and systems, or older items on the market used in a fresh and inventive way. The winner must demonstrate the product or emerging technology, meets the appropriate UK building regulations and health and safety standards. This can be a physical product designed specifically for timber usage or a general building product that reveals a new dimension when used in conjunction with timber technology. Evidence must be provided of where real value has been added to the timber sector. Sponsor: Timber Development UK (TDUK) is the largest, most comprehensive supply chain body for timber in the UK; committed to growing your business, knowledge, connections, and influence. Founded through the merger of the Timber Trade Federation and TRADA in 2021, TDUK brings together more than 1500 businesses which span from sawmill to specifier, and all points in between.”
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PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD SHORTLIST
AKUSTAK: ACOUSTIC MODULAR WALL SYSTEM
PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD Akustak® is a patented, acoustic modular wall system. Designed for materials optimisation & off-site construction, it minimises waste during manufacture & installation, whilst it’s unique, demountable form, facilitates recovery & reuse. Prefabricated & portable, Akustak® accelerates construction timescales, with configurations installed from 15 m2 / per hour, ready for plastering &/or decoration, whilst the ‘Forest’ & ‘Chroma’ range come pre-finished, eliminating the need for wet trades.
INNOVARÉ SYSTEMS: PSI-FAST – NEXT GENERATION PANELISED SYSTEM
PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD Psi-FAST is an evolution of Innovare’s award-winning patented i-FAST structural timber system which uses increased panel thickness and staggered timber stud detailing to reduce U-values and psi-values whilst offering the capacity to include
Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) elements such as factory-fitted vapour control, windows, and cladding. With U-values as low as 0.10 W/m²K, Psi-FAST can be used as loadbearing, wrap or infill panels. All components are recyclable, CE Marked or
BBA Certified.
JAMES LATHAM: THE JAMES LATHAM CARBON CALCULATOR
PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD The James Latham Carbon Calculator is a free, online tool allowing users to accurately measure the carbon impact of the products they use. Providing data on both Carbon Footprint and Biogenic (stored) Carbon attributed to timber-based construction materials, it allows specifiers, designers and end users to select products that will help achieve low carbon goals. The addition of confidence rankings by product allows users to compare similar materials, achieving peace of mind.
MEDITE SMARTPLY: SMARTPLY MAX FR B
PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD
Smartply MAX FR B is a flame retardant, structural, moisture resistant OSB/3 panel with outstanding and reliable reaction to fire properties. This panel is ideal for use where strength, moisture, and improved flame retardance are paramount. Smartply MAX FR B is sustainably manufactured using advanced resin technology that results in a higher performance, with no added formaldehyde. This makes it safer for contractors and fabricators to work with and helps create safer and healthier environments.
PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD
ROTHOBLAAS: ALUSTART – PROFILE FOR CONNECTING CLT AND TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION TO CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS
The product presented, Alustart, is the one of the latest launched in the market product from Rothoblaas to meet designers’ needs and to help the contractors during the installation on site of timber buildings. The Alustart presented has been used on a 2 storey Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) house in Surrey, UK.
