Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy.

  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to navigation
Insert Logo text
Core Test
Mast navigation
  • The Building Boardroom
  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
Search our site
Menu
Close menu
  • Home
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Home
    • About Us
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • About Us
      • Contact details
      • Our history: 170 years of Building
    • Digital editions
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Digital editions
      • Digital supplements
    • Subscriptions
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Subscriptions
      • Buy or renew a subscription
      • Subscriber queries
    • Building's Live Events
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Building's Live Events
      • Building Awards
      • Building Live Club
      • Webinars
  • News
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • News
    • Trending
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Trending
      • Proud to Help campaign
      • Coronavirus
      • Crossrail latest
      • Grenfell Inquiry
      • HS2 latest
    • Companies
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Companies
      • Consultants
      • Contractors
      • Architects
      • Clients
      • Payment times
    • Sectors
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Sectors
      • Cities & regeneration
      • Housing
      • Education & healthcare
      • Commercial
      • Infrastructure
  • Focus
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Focus
    • Features
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Features
      • Sponsored content
    • Interviews
    • Topics
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Topics
      • Higher education
      • Digital transformation
  • Communities
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Communities
    • Communities
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Communities
      • BIM & digital construction
      • Legal
        • Back to parent navigation item
        • Legal
        • Tony Bingham
      • Sustainability
      • Cities & regeneration
      • Housing
      • Education & healthcare
      • Infrastructure
      • Consultants
      • Contractors
      • New voices
      • 5 Minutes with...
  • Buildings
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Buildings
    • Architectural reviews
    • Technical case studies
  • Data
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Data
    • Market data
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Market data
      • League tables
      • Building intelligence
      • Market forecast
      • Tracker
      • Lead times
      • BIM surveys
    • Cost Data
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Cost Data
      • Cost models
      • Cost updates
      • Infrastructure costs
      • Whole-life carbon
      • International costs
  • Professional
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Professional
    • CPD
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • CPD
      • Take the latest modules
      • Webinars
    • Careers
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • Careers
      • Search for jobs
      • Careers features
      • Salary Surveys
    • Building's Good Employer Guide
  • Events
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Events
    • Building Awards
    • 2020 Events
    • Roundtables
    • Webinars
    • Podcasts
    • CRASH charity
  • Jobs
  • Product Search
  • Home
      • About Us
        • Contact details
        • Our history: 170 years of Building
      • Digital editions
        • Digital supplements
      • Subscriptions
        • Buy or renew a subscription
        • Subscriber queries
      • Building's Live Events
        • Building Awards
        • Building Live Club
        • Webinars

    • Digital transformation special
  • News
      • Trending
        • Proud to Help campaign
        • Coronavirus
        • Crossrail latest
        • Grenfell Inquiry
        • HS2 latest
      • Companies
        • Consultants
        • Contractors
        • Architects
        • Clients
        • Payment times
      • Sectors
        • Cities & regeneration
        • Housing
        • Education & healthcare
        • Commercial
        • Infrastructure
    • NG Bailey team on site
      NG Bailey hired for huge £1.2bn battery ‘gigaplant’
  • Focus
      • Features
        • Sponsored content
      • Interviews
      • Topics
        • Higher education
        • Digital transformation
    • money pound coin shutterstock_781204402
      Payment times: How long do the top 50 contractors take to pay up?
    • shutterstock_1565339467
      Ten weeks that shook the housing market
    • shutterstock_1751871680.psd
      Could try harder: construction squares up to the new Building Safety Bill
  • Communities
      • Communities
        • BIM & digital construction
        • Legal
        • Sustainability
        • Cities & regeneration
        • Housing
        • Education & healthcare
        • Infrastructure
        • Consultants
        • Contractors
        • New voices
        • 5 Minutes with...
    • kirstin index
      Designing hospitals fit for the next pandemic
    • richard steer BW
      Doubling down on a failing policy: Why PD rights are so wrong
  • Buildings
      • Architectural reviews
      • Technical case studies
    • Building A West
      Projects: Outernet London, St Giles Circus
    • The Grange University Hospital ©Gleeds 8
      Grange University Hospital: How offsite methods helped deliver covid-19 beds and fast-track the whole build
    • WASHINGTON DULLES 1 shutterstock_1084859573
      A wing and a prayer: what future for airport terminals?
  • Data
      • Market data
        • League tables
        • Building intelligence
        • Market forecast
        • Tracker
        • Lead times
        • BIM surveys
      • Cost Data
        • Cost models
        • Cost updates
        • Infrastructure costs
        • Whole-life carbon
        • International costs
    • Business sentiment 2
      Market forecast: Rising, but for how long?
    • Screenshot 2020-07-28 at 15.08.31
      Lead times: January–June 2020
    • money pound coin shutterstock_781204402
      Payment times: How long do the top 50 contractors take to pay up?
  • Professional
      • CPD
        • Take the latest modules
        • Webinars
      • Careers
        • Search for jobs
        • Careers features
        • Salary Surveys
      • Building's Good Employer Guide
    • UCLan-Engineering-Innovation-Centre-001-CMYK-1024x683
      CPD 8 2020: Specifying acoustic architectural glazing
    • 7021_018-CMYK-1024x683
      CPD 7 2020: Building Regs Parts L and F: Planned Changes
  • Events
      • Building Awards
      • 2020 Events
      • Roundtables
      • Webinars
      • Podcasts
      • CRASH charity

    • Register for upcoming webinars and view on demand

      Building webinars

      Our 2020 programme of unique content, events, exclusive data, research and business insight.

      Find out more

      Entry deadline extended

      Building Awards 2020
  • Jobs
  • Product Search
  • More navigation items

Specifier 2 October 2009

1
Specifier 2 October 2009
  • 1
    Specifier 2 October 2009
  • 2
    Brown roofs
  • 3
    Copper roofing
  • 4
    Green roofs
  • 5
    Heritage tiles
  • 6
    Lead-free flashing
  • 7
    movers and makers
  • 8
    Polycarbonate rooflights
  • 9
    Rigid roof insulation
  • 10
    Single-ply roofing membranes
  • 11
    What it costs: Tensile fabric
  • 12
    Who turned the lights off? The Part L rooflight resurgence
News

Specifier 2 October 2009

2009-10-02T00:00:00+01:00

Specifier 2 October 2009

  • 1
    Currently reading

    Specifier 2 October 2009

  • 2

    Brown roofs

  • 3

    Copper roofing

  • 4

    Green roofs

  • 5

    Heritage tiles

  • 6

    Lead-free flashing

  • 7

    movers and makers

  • 8

    Polycarbonate rooflights

  • 9

    Rigid roof insulation

  • 10

    Single-ply roofing membranes

  • 11

    What it costs: Tensile fabric

  • 12
    Sheppard Robson has transformed an aircraft hangar at Cranfield university into an academic building, lighting it by inserting northlights into the original sawtooth roof

    Who turned the lights off? The Part L rooflight resurgence

Bldg_prod_search_1180

More News

  • Dagenham Studios_CGI_FINAL_CROPPED (002)
    News

    Dagenham film studios proposal wraps up planning after mayor green lights £110m scheme

    2020-08-14T10:56:00Z

    Complex will be built at former factory in Essex town

  • covid
    News

    Second covid-19 wave would not be as bad for construction as the first, Mace says

    2020-08-14T05:00:00Z

    Importance of industry to governments will help it survive further lockdowns, firm adds

  • commuters
    News

    Confidence among construction workers about future prospects begins to ebb away

    2020-08-14T05:00:00Z

    IT and finance the most optimistic professions

Tweets by Building
  • Previous issues
  • A - Z Subjects
  • A - Z Contributors
  • Building Product Search
Find us on social media:
  • © Building 2020
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Building
  • About Us
  • Advertise

Site powered by Webvision Cloud