Committed to Sustainability
We take our responsibility to the environment and sustainability seriously. We operate an Environmental Management System which complies with the requirements of ISO14001:2004. We recycle our waste metals and PVC from window manufacturing and use recycled composites in our reinforcing. We also take great care to sort, and recycle where possible, all old windows, doors and glazing that we remove from customers homes and commercial sites.

As part of our ongoing commitment to best practice Turkington now install A-Rated energy efficient windows as standard on the majority of all new and replacement window contracts.

BREEAM Green Guide A-Rated
Turkingtons PVC profile supplier Eurocell, the UK’s leading supplier of PVC-u window, door, conservatory and roofline systems, is celebrating the results of research carried out by the BRE (Building Research Establishment), in which PVC-u windows have been awarded an ‘A’ rating in its 2008 Green Guide to Specification. Eurocell re-use virtually 100% of the waste product from the manufacturing process which, in 2007, amounted to 2,896 tonnes of recycled PVC-u. The company also buys waste product from other sources for recycling. The result is virtually zero Eurocell production waste going to landfill. The Green Guide provides architects and specifiers with advice and guidance on how to make the best environmental choices when selecting building materials. The BRE assigned the top sustainability ratings for PVC-u because of the progress made in the area of recycling in recent years.

Why do buildings need to meet CSH and BREEAM environmental targets?
Buildings emit around a third of all carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, into our atmosphere. Designing more efficient buildings that need less energy to heat them and therefore have lower carbon dioxide emissions, means that it will create greener buildings. With over 20 per cent of heat lost through a window these elements of the building are vital to creating more sustainable developments.