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title: Maple’s flagship project UWE wins national climate action award
description: Maple’s largest project to date, UWE, has won the Climate Action 2030 award at The Green Gown Awards thanks to its ground-breaking Passivhaus design.
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# [Maple’s flagship project UWE wins national climate action award](https://maplefacades.co.uk/news-and-insights/uwe-wins-climate-award)

 Written by [Amy Bradbury](https://maplefacades.co.uk/news-and-insights/author/amy-bradbury) | 13/11/24 09:00

The awards organisation celebrates ground-breaking sustainability initiatives made by universities and colleges.

Maple are proud to announce that our largest project to date, University of the West of England, has recently won the prestigious Climate Action 2030 Award at the UK & Ireland Green Gown Awards.

 

Maple were responsible for designing, manufacturing and installing a range of rainscreen cladding products for UWE’s Frenchay campus.[ Aspect® rainscreen cladding](https://maplefacades.co.uk/aspect-rainscreen-cladding#aspect%C2%AE-ii) was instrumental in the university’s and Stride Treglown Architects' plans to develop the largest Passivhaus student accommodation development in the UK.

 

The patented design of Aspect® makes it ideal for a Passivhaus development. The system has been designed with energy efficiency in mind, incorporating thermally efficient and adjustable subframe to reduce thermal bridging and [eClips® support system](https://maplefacades.co.uk/aspect-rainscreen-cladding) that uses insulation fix technology that saved the best part of 50,000 penetrations. By reducing the amount of heat escaping the development, there is less of a demand for heating systems making the building more energy efficient and Passivhaus compliant.

 

The judges were impressed with UWE’s efforts to set a new benchmark for sustainable student housing, claiming ‘This case study sets a powerful example for Executives and Directors of Estates and Finance…that dedication, strategic effort, and early-stage investment can yield substantial long-term savings while achieving exceptional results in carbon reduction and energy efficiency.’

 

Maple feel privileged to have played an active role in such a historical project for the industry, we would like to extend our congratulations to [UWE](https://maplefacades.co.uk/case-studies/university-of-the-west-of-england), Stride Treglown and Vinci Building UK with whom we collaborated closely on this project. To see how we're handling sustainability internally, take a look at '[Sustainability in Construction: From Complexity to Simplicity](https://maplefacades.co.uk/news-and-insights/sustainability-challenges)'.

 

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