Roadstone wins prestigious award
20th December
Roadstone, the leading manufacturer and supplier of building materials in Ireland, is celebrating after their Thermal Liteblock picked up the award for ‘Best New Product Innovation of the Year’ at the recent Irish Building and Design Awards.
Organised and hosted by leading event organisers CMG, the black tie ceremony was held in the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin. Over 500 Professionals from architecture, engineering, construction and design attended the industry’s blue ribbon event to celebrate the nation’s best building and design projects over the past 12 months.
The judging panel for the 2016 ceremony included some of the leading industry professionals such as Martin Lang, CIF Director of Main Contracting and Tim Brick, Executive Director of the Irish Academy of Engineering. This year’s awards received the largest number of submissions since the event’s inception six years ago with each judge commenting on the high standard.
Roadstone led the way in the ‘Best New Product Innovation of the Year’ category for its innovative Thermal Liteblock.
Arthur Lambert - Alan Lowe - Michael Toomey from Roadstone receiving the award
Thermal Liteblock is a lightweight, durable and thermally efficient concrete block that provides improved energy efficiency in the design and construction of new buildings. The product was developed to meet new building regulations in particular Part L. Launched in May 2015 it includes thermal modelling of a wide range of building junctions which means that we can provide our customers with design solutions and validated thermal performance calculations, through the Roadstone technical support team.
The Thermal Liteblock product launch program included a number of regional seminars throughout Ireland that were well attended by architects, BER assessors, engineers and building contractors. A designated page has been developed on the Roadstone website for Thermal Liteblock that includes technical guidance, DOP and contact details for our technical support team as well as a large range of technical drawings available to download in various formats.