THIS IS CONCRETE

摘要

Cavity defiant... Rumours of the demise of the cavity wall have been greatly exaggerated, argued This Is Concrete blogger Tom de Saulles, fresh from making the case for masonry at a Zero Carbon Hub event. "That got me thinking about the place the cavity wall occupies in the collective minds of the housing sector," he wrote. "Maybe its longstanding, traditional qualities make it seem outmoded in a sector that has seen a lot of new ideas and change in recent years. The majority of UK homes continue to have masonry cavity walls, and 88% of these were built before 1990 [so] the thermal performance of most cavity walls in existence today falls some way short of current Part L standards for new build, a fact that may well influence perceptions, whether consciously or not."