Timber is a great building material to use when you want to limit the impact of your home on the environment. Its versatility means you can use it for everything from roofs to floors, it can allow homes to be built much faster, and the natural visual variation of timber means it looks good too.
Following his speech at the Healthy Homes and Buildings All Party Parliamentary Group meeting last month, Saint-Gobain technical director, Mark Allen shares his thoughts on why we’ve only started the journey to protect our health and wellbeing.
Stories of disputes over noise regularly make the headlines, but how does noise really affect our daily lives?Here are four ways that sound can make a difference, according to academic and scientific research:
To function well our bodies need a core temperature of around 37°C and a skin temperature of between 32 and 33°C. That said, everyone tends to have slightly different criteria for what’s ‘just right’ for them so it’s always useful to have greater control over the temperature of a space so that it can be tailored to a specific individual.
When DIYers or those with limited building experience try to improve the insulation of a home, they need to ensure that they do so in a way that will not create problems with condensation either within the structure of the building fabric (called interstitial condensation) or on the inside surfaces of rooms due to the unintentional creation of cold spots – called ‘thermal bridges’
We live in a world that moves fast and continuously. Technological innovation and change, especially digital communications is rewriting every industry and market sector – as the way we as human beings manage our lives and the information we need to live it changes.
We spend around 90% of our time indoors, with 65% of this spent at home [1], so it’s fair to say that our homes, where we spend so much time, can have a significant impact on our comfort, health and wellbeing.
