If you’re looking for advice and guidance on the identification, re-use and disposal options for metal-faced insulated panels EPIC has updated its popular guide ‘Identification and Disposal of Insulated Panels’.
This 40-page document has been prepared to assist all those who may be involved in considering the end-of-life options for metal-faced insulated panels used on or in buildings. This includes re-use, recycling, onward fuel source, as energy recovery, and waste.
Relatively few metal-faced insulated panels have entered the waste stream to date, so many contractors have had little experience with how to dispose of them. To help keep the industry up to date, EPIC and its members have conducted research and trials to inform this identification and disposal guide.
The EPIC Guide describes:
- What are metal-faced insulated panels?
- Where are insulated panels used?
- Regulatory requirements
- How to identify different types
- Demolition
- Dismantling for re-use
- End of Life options (Ozone Depleting Substances – ODS)
- End of Life options (Non-ODS)
- Duty of care, waste hierarchy protocols, and Best Available Techniques (BAT) for insulated panels
Systems covered:
This guidance document specifically covers insulated panels of a sandwich type construction that have metal facings on either side of an insulation material.
These panels are commonly known as either:
- Insulated panels;
- Sandwich panels; or
- Composite panels.
Because of the very specific use and nature of metal-faced panels used in construction, the scope of the guide has been restricted to panels with steel or aluminium facings.
Systems not covered:
- Insulation boards with thin foil facings — used to line buildings or in cavities;
- Roofing boards used as a separate component to insulate roofs;
- Other composite insulated panels with non-metallic facings