Thelma Walker MP visits Green Building Store

 Last Friday 26 January Thelma Walker MP paid a visit to Golcar-based company Green Building Store. As well as finding out more about the company’s pioneering work in the field of green building, Thelma was visiting to discuss issues of concern for the company as an SME trading with Europe and working in the field of low energy building with a strong commitment to tackling climate change.

Green Building Store has been supplying and building low energy buildings for over 20 years. The company specialises in high performance triple glazed windows and doors and MVHR heat recovery systems, which it supplies all over the UK. The company employs over 30 people, including a small specialist building team, which works on Passivhaus and low energy projects in the Huddersfield area.  The company was awarded the Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development in 2009 for its ‘pioneering approach to sustainability’ and for providing ‘cutting edge sustainable products’. More recently the company has been involved in a number of pioneering construction projects including the Denby Dale Passivhaus, the UK’s first cavity wall Passivhaus, and the multi-award-winning retrofit of a barn to the EnerPHit (Passivhaus retriofit) standard for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust at Stirley Community Farm.

Thelma Walker met with Green Building Store Directors Chris Herring and Bill Butcher as well as having a tour of the company’s  Heath House Mill base at Bolster Moor.

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Passivhaus is an international low energy building standard which can cut average heating bills by 90 per cent.