Build-Lite, the leading manufacturer and supplier of innovative building products for low energy buildings, has announced that it’s following on from both its accreditations by BBA and NHBC, that Future Found is now in prime position to help clients achieve the new regulations. Future Found is a trenchless foundation system, manufactured in the UK, that uses high-density EPS Insulation.

Future Found is designed and manufactured to suit each individual project. The product arrives on site as a fully engineered, ready-made EPS formwork that fits together. This outline then remains in the ground, and concrete can be poured in one operation to create an energy efficient slab foundation that is capable of delivering passive house U-values and thermal bridging standards.

“Future Found is quick and easy to install, only three days to fit for a standard three-bedroom house,” Tim Turner of Build-Lite told Passive House Plus. “It also reduces machine time required on site as there are no trenches to be excavated, no soils away and 40% less concrete is used. It means the builder saves on both installation and material costs, and the homeowners have significantly reduced heating bills.”

The company’s BBA certificate followed an intensive period of testing of the system that began in 2015 at an independent test facility in Stoke. They have now backed up the thermal claims with independent review from Marmox achieving Psi values as low as 0.06 W/mK and U-values of 0.075 W/m² K “We wanted to prove to the industry that we have the tools to achieve their goals and surpass current regulations”.

The BBA cert was awarded in 2017 and is still proudly held by the company following further periods of review, as well as further testing of all the fixings, and the development of quality manufacturing and site installation plans for the product.  Tim Turner stated that the system has now been used all over the UK and Ireland, and that BBA certification has opened doors to the bigger developers who regularly specify the Future Found System. “We have always had strong links with the Passive House community, being able to give cost certainty to projects up front whilst offering industry leading performance” For more information see www.build-liteuk.co.uk.