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Double glazed whole window U-values as low as 1.2W/m²K
At Bereco, our mission has and always will be to supply beautifully bespoke timber windows and doors that do not cost the earth. For us, it’s no longer just a case of just ‘delivering the difference,’ we are striving to make a real difference with our naturally renewable, energy-efficient carbon saving timber windows and doors.
Our wooden windows and doors are made from naturally renewable materials that are carbon negative and come from sustainable forests. When you buy our windows and doors you will be able to offset some of the carbon emissions of your own home, reducing its and your carbon footprint.
Timber has the lowest embodied carbon of any window material at just 85kgCO²e compared to aluminium at 161kgCO²e.
While uPVC windows have a global warming potential of +100kgCO²e, timber has -60kgCO²e which is significantly lower.
Each Bereco timber window and door that is purchased helps to save over 252kgCO²e, making an incredible saving on carbon.
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An outline of the 2022 changes to Part L of the building regulations, and how to ensure compliance on windows & doors
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We make our windows from either FSC® 100% or 100% PEFC Origin certified timber which is essential in helping in the fight against deforestation.
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We donate £1 for every timber door purchased to World Land Trust, saving acres of rainforest.
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Bereco is a proud member of the Alliance For Sustainable Building Products demonstrating a true commitment to sustainability.
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At Bereco we have always held sustainability at the core of our business and have remained focused on our environmental responsibilities since our first day of trading. We believe passionately in protecting our planet and embed this in everything we do.
At Bereco we are continually pushing both our business and the products to be the most sustainable we can be. We follow the guiding principles of sustainability and have identified six core areas to our business based on these guidelines. We will continue to follow this ethos to deliver an ongoing improvement in sustainability.
In 2018, we committed to use only 100% renewable electricity and carbon-neutral gas to power our offices in the UK and we still follow this today.
We continue to use only 100% renewable energy to power our offices. This commitment means we are lowering our carbon impact by around 3,500 tonnes of CO² which is equivalent to the work of around 1,770 trees capturing and storing the carbon from our atmosphere annually.
We are constantly seeking to improve the energy-saving potential of our timber windows and doors over and above the requirements of the building regulations in the UK.
In 2022, significant changes were introduced to the minimum energy efficiency requirements of both new and existing homes in response to the findings that our housing stock accounted for over 16% of the UK’s total carbon emissions – overtaking that of the transport sector. The most significant contributor to these emissions is space heating, suggesting our housing stock (all 23 million of them) is entirely energy inefficient at retaining heat.
Windows and doors play their part in the need for space heating as heat can be lost through the glass, frames, seals and where the window is fitted into the fabric of the building. We are pleased to say that our timber windows and doors now offer U-values that not only comply with the limits of the regulations and are up to 43% better with U-values starting from 0.8W/m²K triple glazed and 1.2W/m²K double glazed.
We commit to providing transparency on the carbon footprint of both our business operations and of our product.
We are pleased to say that we have completed our first Cradle to Gate analysis of our timber sliding sash window. We have also completed our first Environmental Product declaration giving us an insight into the environmental impact and life cycle of our sash window product in the following areas:
We continue to develop our plans in this area and aim to declare the Carbon Footprint of our products and our business by 2023.
We endeavour to use only natural materials in the manufacture of our windows and doors and we make sure to reduce the risk of health issues associated with noise and sleep deprivation.
We are continuing to reduce the amount of ‘other materials’ used in our windows and doors such as vents, weather strips, hinges and ironmongery, and replacing them with materials that can be recycled or reused. In 2018 we set up an environmental working group focused on eliminating plastic from our products and our supply chain, and joined the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) and The Good Homes Alliance (GHA) in an effort to find solutions to this problem.
We continue to be committed to this cause and will review our supply chain annually for any innovation from our supply chain. It is estimated that 54% of the UK population is exposed to daytime noise pollution greater than the recommended levels, which given the potential health impacts, is concerning. Research is available linking traffic noise to health issues such as cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke and dementia, with people living near airports having an ever-greater increased risk of such conditions.
Bereco’s Ambient Range of Timber Windows and Doors, which launched in October 2018, offers the solution to reducing the health risks associated with noise pollution offering windows and doors with third-party certified overall dB ratings of 33dB, 38dB, 41dB and 42dB.
We aim to reduce our non-recyclable waste by 50% through both business and product development by the year 2023.
Our products are delivered on fully recyclable timber pallets made by our very own sawmill using offcuts of our FSC® timber. We will collect the pallets we deliver, where possible, in an effort to reuse them for future customer deliveries, helping to extend their service life before recycling is necessary.
We continue to seek alternative solutions to our packaging and are pleased to be part of the ASBP’s Plastics Working Group which is looking to identify sustainable, cost-effective alternatives to this problem. This year we have eliminated the single-use plastic pots that our touch-up paint is stored in, preventing around 2,500 plastic pots from going to landfill each year.
We commit to ensuring our chosen haulage company, Truswell Haulage complies with all current legislation and seeks to reduce carbon emissions through everyday practices.
The average truck travelling at a motorway speed of 50 m.p.h. burns 50% of its fuel just pushing air out of the way. It is believed that by further improving vehicle “streamlining” or “air management” a reduction in fuel burn and therefore carbon emissions is achievable.
Truswell Haulage operate a Truswell “Traffic Planning and Routing Policy” and a Truswell “Fuel and Tyre Management Policy” and continually monitors driver performance and driver training in an effort to reduce fuel burn. The government office for Low Emissions Vehicles and Innovate U.K. has sponsored a major research project which sets the challenge to further improve fuel efficiency by various engineering solutions.
A working group of the best and most knowledgeable companies in this field has been formed, Truswell Haulage is extremely proud to have been chosen to provide the critical driving and vehicle specification data that will be used to explore ways to further reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions. The rigid vehicles we use to deliver our windows and doors will be part of this challenge.
We commit to only supply FSC® 100% certified timber in our timber windows and doors and to maintain our ongoing FSC® chain of custody certification of both our softwood and hardwood, reviewing our supply chain annually.
FSC® accredited since 2004 our wooden windows and doors are made from FSC® 100% timber. In 2014 we discontinued the supply of European Oak after a review of the supply chain left a question mark over the chain of custody that could not be immediately verified without confidence. As a result we chose to remove Oak from our timber offering. Today, we continue to pioneer and champion the use of only 100% FSC® certified timber in the manufacture of our wooden windows and doors.
As part of our environmental policy, our values do not stop at the products we supply. We also consider our environmental impact at all stages from our supply chain down to how our offices are powered.
As a signatory of the Anti-Greenwash charter we publish a Green Claims policy. This details how our marketing practices adhere to the charter’s standards and it also includes information on how we guarantee that green claims made about our products and services are fair and substantiated.
Whether you’re a homeowner working on a renovation project for your home, an architect looking for specific windows and doors, or a trade professional building new homes and properties, we offer a tailored service to help you budget, design, and order bespoke timber windows and doors.
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