Hambleside Danelaw’s carbon offsets benefit sustainable land use in Uganda

Environmental award-winning building products manufacturer, Hambleside Danelaw, has been presented with a Plan Vivo certificate in recognition of the carbon offset payments that it has made into a plantation and forestry project for farmers in south-west Uganda.

Hambleside Danelaw’s StormForce 225 valley trough range wins Scottish innovation award

Hambleside Danelaw grabs gold in leading environmental awards

The roofing products group Hambleside Danelaw has won this year’s gold Green Apple award for its sustainable approach to manufacturing at its plant in Inverness.

Runner-up spot for Hambleside Danelaw in national Green Supplier of the Year award

Hambleside Danelaw’s market leading environmental credentials have just received a further boost with recognition from a leading building publication’s awards panel...

Hambleside Danelaw’s rooflights feature in BeAware research project to reduce waste and improve efficiency

As a manufacturer of plastic building products, Hambleside Danelaw is studying the resource efficiency of their glass reinforced plastic (GRP) rooflights through the BRE’s BeAware research project....

Hambleside Danelaw promotes sustainability checklist for contractors as local MP opens new Daventry factory

Scottish Natural Heritage award for Hambleside Danelaw’s environmental practices

Roofing products manufacturer Hambleside Danelaw has been recognised at a Highland and Islands’ business awards ceremony for its exemplary environmental practices.

Image shows: Jack Milson,  Production Manager of Hambleside Danelaw's Inverness plant, receives the SCDI award from Ruby Wax

New state-of-the art factory for Hambleside Danelaw in Daventry

Award-winning roofing products manufacturer, Hambleside Danelaw, has moved into a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Daventry, representing a major landmark in the Group’s growth and development.

Bellamy hails Hambleside Danelaw as ‘Green Heroes’ for commitment to sustainable development

David Bellamy and The Green Organisation have recognised roofing products manufacturer Hambleside Danelaw Ltd as ‘Green Heroes’ in tribute to the Group’s environmental best practice.

Hambleside Danelaw features on BBC national news

For a report about migratory workers on its television news bulletins on 14 June 2007, the BBC included the example of a Polish worker who is employed at Hambleside Danelaw’s manufacturing facility in Inverness.

As well as using footage of the Group’s assembly line for GRP roofing products, the BBC interviewed Hambleside employee Adrian Maziak who said that he had a good job at the factory.

Half of Hambleside’s workforce at Inverness is Polish and as part of their integration into the local community, the Group has funded English lessons for them on site, organised by the Workers’ Educational Association.

A video link to the BBC report can be accessed at:

Hambleside sail to Valencia as finalists of the Building Exchange Competition as customers give Group thumbs-up for service

Hambleside Danelaw’s environmental credentials boosted by
Planet Positive™ certification

Group’s landfill waste now equivalent to ordinary British household’s

Multi-environmental award winning Hambleside Danelaw, which manufactures insulated GRP rooflights and other roofing materials in Inverness and Daventry, has been certified as Planet Positive™ by leading carbon solutions company dcarbon8.

Local MP praises innovative emergency relief shelter

Six Cities Design Festival, Inverness, 17 May – 3 June 2007

Inverness MP Danny Alexander has today praised local manufacturer Hambleside Danelaw for its unique new family shelter unit designed for deployment in natural disaster relief situations.

Developed in Inverness with support from the HIE, Inverness and East Highland, the unit addresses a need to bridge the gap between the provision of tents and the reconstruction of permanent homes in areas of the world devastated by natural disasters.  It can easily be erected by local people in less than half a day and it can be built on uneven ground, making it ideal for deployment in mountainous regions.

Innovative ‘no tools, no foundations’ emergency relief shelter launched at design festival

Treasury minister calls for pre-Budget representations from the building industry

A Treasury minister has told a House of Commons select committee that he would consider representations from the building industry that presented a case for tax incentives to encourage the construction of energy-efficient commercial and public buildings.

Hambleside Danelaw slashes carbon emissions by switching to renewable energy

The building products manufacturer, Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, is making further cuts to its carbon output by sourcing the electricity supply for its carbon-neutral Inverness factory entirely from renewable energy.

With the switch taking effect from today, the Group estimates that the measure will reduce its carbon footprint by about 40 tonnes a year. Last year Hambleside Danelaw successfully cut emissions by 24.6% and it expects to achieve further major reductions this year as a result of using renewable energy sources. The Group has won numerous awards for environmental good practice.

Gorillas go green at London Zoo!

There’ll be no monkey business about energy efficiency and climate change when the gorillas move into their exciting new home at London Zoo at Easter.

The roof of the nearly-completed Gorilla Kingdom exhibit has been fitted with Hambleside Danelaw’s ground-breaking Insulator GRP thermally efficient rooflights.

Recognised by the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation last year for the ‘outstanding innovation’ behind them, the Insulator rooflights incorporate a transparent insulation in the form of an advanced honeycomb technology that allows the maximum possible natural light into a building. This will obviously be enjoyed by the gorillas, colobus monkeys, rainforest birds and monitor lizards that will be sharing the zoo’s top new attraction for 2007...

Top Scottish environmental award for Hambleside Danelaw

Roofing products manufacturer, Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, has won one of Scotland’s leading environmental awards in the same year that its Inverness factory has been independently assessed as carbon neutral.

More top business awards crown outstanding year for Hambleside Danelaw

Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, the roofing products manufacturer based on the Royal Oak industrial estate in Daventry, has picked up two more prestigious business awards, having won a Daventry Express Excellence Award in July.

Stormforce 225 Roof Valley Trough range lands Hambleside Danelaw its third Green Apple environment award

David Bellamy, the well-known conservationist, will be presenting one of the country’s leading environmental awards today to Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, manufacturer of rooflights and other roofing products.   

The Green Apple Award recognises the introduction of new manufacturing processes for the company’s Stormforce 225 Roof Valley Trough range which have reduced waste and replaced virgin raw materials with materials generated from recycled products.

Tax incentives may be the answer after Stern acknowledges construction supply chain issues with energy efficient buildings

Hambleside Danelaw’s response to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

The roofing products manufacturer, Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, which won a Queen’s Award earlier this year for the innovative design behind its energy-efficient Insulator rooflight, has today welcomed the Stern Review’s observations on possible measures to cut carbon emissions from buildings.

Lord-Lieutenant to present Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation to Waterlooville company

Photo Opportunity on Thursday, 2 November 2006 at 11.00am
at Hambleside Danelaw Ltd, 2 Lancer House, Hussar Court, Westside View, Waterlooville, PO7 7SE

The Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Mrs Mary Fagan JP, will be visiting the head office of Hambleside Danelaw Ltd this week to present the company with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation.  

The visit will include a tour of the Group’s offices and an opportunity for the Lord Lieutenant to meet the staff.

Hambleside Danelaw have been selected as the Winner of the Microsoft Award for Innovation catagory of the Chamber of Commerce Awards for the East Midlands, for their Insulator Rooflight.

Hambleside Danelaw have been automatically entered into the National Final, winners will be announced on November 23rd.