Rockpanel Quality Marks

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. RIBA provides support for over 40,000 members worldwide in the form of training, technical services, publications and events. The Institute sets standards for the education of architects, both in the UK and overseas.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) aims to ensure that qualified professionals maintain their competence to practice.

Rockwool Rockpanel is part of the RIBA CPD Providers Network. As part of this partnership Rockpanel offers a Seminar, ‘Safer Specifications for Cladding, Soffit, and Fascia Applications using Stonewool’. For more information please visit www.architecture.com

The BBA's Agrément Certificates have been providing authoritative and independent information on the performance of building products for over 40 years. Every Agrément Certificate contains important data on durability, installation and compliance with Building Regulations, not just in England and Wales, but also in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Rockpanel products comply with these regulations and are BBA approved. Certificate 04/4168, second edition relates to compressed and bound rock wool boards with a decorative coating on one side, for use as a back ventilated cladding panel system:

Rockpanel Rockclad Durable and Rockpanel Durable Anit-Graffiti panels

NBS Plus is produced by NBS, publishers of the National Building Specification. Rockpanel's products are included in the NBS Plus specification system.

To find out more about the NBS Plus system, visit. www.nbsplus.co.uk

The Rockwool Group's project ‘Waste and Sewage Recycling and Symbiosis in Stone Wool Production’ (LIFE05 ENV/DK/000158) has been started in order to reuse residual products from other industries. Our initiative is supported financially by the EU's Life-programme. The objective of LIFE-Environment, the EU-funding for the environment, is to help develop innovative techniques by co-financing demonstration projects.

Project goals

The Project’s objective is to expand the application of the existing technology for using secondary raw materials in stone wool production. Our aim is to include a wider range of waste materials in the production process and achieve higher substitution levels. The project seeks to demonstrate the use of secondary combustion material and residuals from water treatment. It should enable the stone wool production units to use locally produced waste materials as a partial substitution of current energy sources such as solid fuels, and supplementary electricity and natural gas supplies.

More information on the LIFE project can be found on the Rockwool website.