Design Buy Build Issue 15 2015 | Page 42

MODUS HOPS TO IT IN CONSERVATION AREA Derbyshire-based Wheeldon Homes has become the latest housebuilder to specify the innovative new Modus window and door profile system from Eurocell. Appropriately enough, Modus was specified on 47 properties in a Conservation Area of Middleton, near Wirksworth, a beautiful Derbyshire village in the same county as the Eurocell manufacturing and recycling facilities. Wheeldon has a policy of employing local suppliers wherever possible, something exemplified by the Hopton Rise development. Modus® is the UK’s first fully integrated window and door system, available with three stunning sash design options. The standard rebate, slim rebate and fully flush sash styles offer developers like Wheeldon Homes a much wider range of design aesthetics. All 47 of the properties at Hopton Rise feature Modus windows with the flush sash option, in a White Ash woodgrain finish. This offers a genuine aesthetic alternative to timber windows, without creating an ongoing maintenance burden for homeowners. 50% of the Modus frames are made from post-consumer recycled PVC-U, from the dedicated Eurocell recycling facility in nearby Ilkeston. This material is made into the new Modus window profiles, at the Eurocell production plant in Alfreto