Buildings: Insulation

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has estimated how much of insulation used in high-rise and low-rise buildings is (a) polyisocyanurate foam, (b) phenolic foam and (c) mineral wool insulation.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 7th September 2017

We have asked all owners of buildings over 18 metres with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding to submit samples to the BRE for screening to establish whether the materials submitted are of limited combustibility. Where samples that are sent in do not meet the limited combustibility test we are also collecting information on what insulation materials have been used.

Summary advice published on 5 September (available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing) sets out the results of screening tests and the seven large-scale system tests conducted over the summer, and includes the numbers of these buildings which have the type of insulation used.

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