Aliva UK is delighted to be celebrating a double win at the 2024 Insulated Render and Cladding (INCA) awards, with two of its statement EWI and brick slip projects taking home trophies.

Its Morriss House project in Nottingham for Purpose Built Student Accommodation specialist Unite Students scooped the Judges Choice award in the environmental - high rise category.

Morriss House features over 8,000sqm of Aliva’s A1 rated, Kiwa accredited EWI with red and buff clay slips, including acute and obtuse angled slips and a traditional corbel detailing effect, alongside stone rainscreen cladding, used as an accent feature.

The EWI with brick slip system has contributed to the £57million, 705-bed new build accommodation complex’s sustainability credentials. The project had several detail interfaces, however, the U-Value achieved was 0.10W/m2k. This thermal value was inputted into the final thermal calculations for the entire building.

Aliva’s Cortland Broad St project in Birmingham for Build to Rent specialist Cortland scooped the INCA award in the New Build: Residential - high rise category award.

This 440-apartment development features 11,000sqm of Aliva’s A1 rated, Kiwa accredited EWI with clay slips in smooth red with a repeating chamfer as the ‘basketweave’ reveal.

The slip colourway/texture was smooth red, meeting the Birmingham planning officer’s specification to complement this part of the city’s industrial heritage/existing traditional red brick aesthetic.

This system again complemented the project’s sustainability credentials, given the thermal efficiency benefits that the EWI brick slip system can yield. The project had several detail interfaces, however, the U-Value achieved was 0.15W/m2k, inputted into the final thermal calculations for the entire building.

James Ormerod, Aliva UK’s Managing Director, said: “This duo of prestigious awards recognises the impact, in terms of both meeting architectural design intent, and the thermal efficiency that EWI with brick slip systems can generate for project credentials and the Net Zero Carbon agenda in turn. We’re delighted to bring these two awards home and thank all the partners involved in these developments which have helped to create a positive impact on the skylines of both Nottingham and Birmingham.”