All Roofing articles – Page 5

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    Rigid roof insulation

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Heritage tiles

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Green roofs

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Lead-free flashing

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Copper roofing

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Kalzip has supplied more than 800m2 of copper sheeting for the roof of the new Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock

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    Brown roofs

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    BriggsAmasco has begun work on a brown roof scheme at Manchester’s latest mixed-use development, 1 New York Street. The roof has been designed and specified with the aim of attracting the rare black redstart bird into the city centre by emulating a natural area of habitat and vegetation that will ...

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    Crazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    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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    Rooflights

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Roof verge systems

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Photovoltaic roof tiles

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Mineral wool insulation

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Insulated roof panels

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Kingspan’s KS1000 RW trapezoidal insulated roof and wall panel is now available in a width of 2m

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    Plastic gutters

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Hunter Plastics has launched Ovation, a guttering system that offers a top-hung alternative to traditional bracket systems

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    Green roofs

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Tubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    UK builds first warehouse using hemp lime panels

    2009-05-07T09:47:00Z

    Wine Society's warehouse uses preformed panels of hemp and lime that locks in carbon dioxide

  • Tuscan Foundry Products has launched an enhanced version of its Lumen Rooflight
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    Rooflights

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Tuscan Foundry Products has launched an enhanced version of its Lumen Rooflight

  • Profiled sheeting from Marley Eternit has been used on this self-build timber frame house in Scotland.
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    Profiled sheeting

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Profiled sheeting from Marley Eternit has been used on this self-build timber frame house in Scotland

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    Roof modules

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    A Corus Hi-Point off-site modular roofing system has been used for the fast-track construction of the Eastfields Station in south London

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    Gutter and fascia systems

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Alumasc has supplied a bespoke coping, fascia and gutter system for a housing development at Waterstone Park, Kent