All Roofing articles – Page 5
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Lead-free flashing
Iko has launched Ikoflash, a lead-free flashing product for use in areas where traditional lead flashings would normally be installed, such as chimneys and abutments, around rooflights and pitched valley linings. According to the company, the product is a faster, more cost-effective alternative to traditional lead flashing and is less ...
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FeaturesGreen roofs
Roofing supplier ICB has worked with architects Ian Brown Partnership to design bespoke green roofs for 20 beach huts in Blyth, Northumberland
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Heritage tiles
Independent handmade roof tile maker, Tudor Roof Tile, has introduced a peg tile designed to complement listed buildings and heritage properties
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Rigid roof insulation
Tapered rigid roof insulation from Kingspan Insulation has been used in the renovation of a primary care centre in Washington, Tyne and Wear
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FeaturesWho turned the lights off? The Part L rooflight resurgence
Proposals for the revised Part L of the Building Regulations could lead to a resurgence in rooflights
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Single-ply roofing membranes
Building membranes specialist Icopal has extended its range of singly-ply waterproofing solutions with the launch of its Monarplan PVCu system for new-build and refurbished roofs
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Polycarbonate rooflights
Roofglaze has introduced a range of rooflights featuring Nanogel, a translucent granular material that can improve U-values
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FeaturesCrazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower
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FeaturesTubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre
Buro Happold’s roof for Liège’s new shopping centre takes the form of a 400m-long steel snake, which undulates to dramatically different heights. Stephen Kennett finds out how it was done
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Green roofs
Grass Concrete has launched a system that can be laid over new or existing flat roof membranes to create a green roof
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Plastic gutters
Hunter Plastics has launched Ovation, a guttering system that offers a top-hung alternative to traditional bracket systems
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Insulated roof panels
Kingspan’s KS1000 RW trapezoidal insulated roof and wall panel is now available in a width of 2m
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Mineral wool insulation
Knauf Insulation has launched an environmentally friendly mineral wool insulation with lower embodied energy. Using its patented “Ecose Technology”, the insulation has a distinctive natural brown colour – rather than yellow – as a result of a new sustainable binder made from renewable materials rather than oil-based chemicals
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FeaturesPhotovoltaic roof tiles
Sandtoft has launched a roofing system that enables Solarcentury’s C21e photovoltaic (PV) roof tiles to be integrated with Sandtoft’s Cassius and Rivius clay roof tiles
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FeaturesRoof verge systems
Glidevale has introduced the Universal Dry Verge System which, it claims accommodates all interlocking metric sized tiles and can be used on both left and right sides of the roof
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FeaturesRooflights
Roofglaze has installed more than 3,280m2 of glass monopitch skylights at Wolverton Park, a redevelopment of the former railway works at Milton Keynes
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NewsUK builds first warehouse using hemp lime panels
Wine Society's warehouse uses preformed panels of hemp and lime that locks in carbon dioxide
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Aluminium roofing
Ash & Lacy Building Systems has provided 4,000m2 of Ashzip for a retirement home in Ireland
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FeaturesClay roof tiles
Redland has recreated the traditional fired blue of Staffordshire clay plain roof tiles with the Blue Brindle addition to its Rosemary Classic range
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Curved roofing
A sweeping Kalzip aluminium roof has been used on the new Leigh Technology Academy college in Dartford, Kent