MagmaTech has sponsored students at the University of Central Lancashire who have designed, built and raced an eco-friendly single seater sports car with a basalt fibre body. The innovative use of basalt fibre rather than carbon fibre reduced the CO2 emited in production and thus the environmental impact of the racing car.

TeploTie, the low conductivity wall tie has been used in a ground breaking Passivhaus project.

The project in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, is one of the first certified Passivhaus homes in the UK and the first to be built using masonry cavity walls.

TeploTie, the BBA-approved low thermal conductivity wall tie manufactured from basalt fibre, has been announced Winner of the Building Product category of the 2010 Self-Build Product Innovation awards.

MagmaTech has signed an exclusive license agreement with Ancon Building Products for the distribution of TeploTie, the low conductivity wall tie, in the UK and Ireland.

Ancon is the market leader in wall ties, with an outstanding reputation for high quality engineering solutions which have been at the forefront of the construction industry for over 120 years.

The agreement will make TeploTie readily available in the UK and Ireland through Ancon’s well established distribution network, with customers benefiting from Ancon’s excellent customer service and technical support.

TeploTie; the low thermal conductivity wall tie has been awarded British Board of Agrément (BBA) certification. The rigorous testing and approvals process considered all aspects of TeploTie’s performance including; structural performance, fire performance, long term durability and also confirmed the crucial low thermal conductivity of the tie. TeploTie is the most intensively tested wall tie ever launched in to the market!

The Concrete Centre have developed a design and specification for a Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) level 5 house in collaboration with a Registered Social Landlord (RSL); A2Dominion Group and a contractor.

TeploTie has been specified in this thermally efficient house design. The low conductivity wall ties are used to connect a masonry cavity wall which is fully filled with 200mm of polystyrene bead. The external wall achieves a design U-value of 0.15 W/m2K, with a medium density aggregate block for the inner leaf and a choice of facing bricks or concrete blocks with a rendered finish for the outer leaf.

TeploTie, thermally insulating wall ties, have been added to the latest version of U-value calculation software; BuildDesk U. The addition enables users of the software to quickly model the U-value improvement that the low conductivity wall ties can bring to a wall design.

TeploTie, thermally insulating wall ties, have been used in an environmentally conscious project at a UK school . The new classroom and storage room at Hawridge & Cholesbury Church of England School, Buckinghamshire, has been designed to reduce energy and water usage by the new building’s users. The project also utilised many sustainable building materials.

MagmaTech has won the 2008 Building Exchange (BEX) innovation competition for its commitment to developing new and sustainable construction products. MagmaTech received the award at a gala evening at the BEX event, a major construction conference being held in Valencia, Spain from the 23-25th of June.

The Concrete Centre has published a guide which demonstrates how masonry products can be used to create houses which meet the energy consumption and CO₂ emission requirements of the UK Government’s ‘Code for Sustainable Homes’. The guide recognises the importance of removing thermal bridging from walls and describes how basalt fibre reinforced polymer wall ties [TeploTie] out perform competing wall ties in terms of thermal efficiency.