The Triangle, the new international headquarters brings together all Cambridge Assessment’s Cambridge-based staff, currently based in 11 different offices across the city, bringing them all under one roof. The site is on what was previously Cambridge University Press’s Edinburgh Building on Shaftesbury Road Cambridge, to the South-East of Cambridge City Centre.

Designed by HLM/Sidell Gibson Architects, all flat roof areas utilised Alumasc Roofing Systems’ Hydrotech Hot Melt and Alumasc XPS insulation offering a total system solution. All upper main roof areas drain onto 3 x single storey podiums that have the Alumasc BluRoof Drainage System along with Blackdown Green Roof to provide a habitable space for people to enjoy. This BluRoof System comes with Alumasc’s single point warranty that provides the University with ultimate peace of mind for the foreseeable future. This assures the University that if the roof fails to remain watertight as a consequence of latent defect in the BluRoof Waterproofing System, Drainage Components, Accessories and associated surface finishes such as green roof as supplied by Alumasc, the integrity of the waterproofing will be reinstated by Alumasc.

Alumasc’s BluRoof system reduces and controls the peak rate of stormwater discharge from roof areas. Detention of storm water up to a prescribed maximum hydraulic head occurs, with subsequent discharge controlled over an elongated time period.

The BluRoof drainage strategies were introduced at design stage to help meet SuDS requirements and Alumasc worked extensively with Capita to achieve the required reduction in rainwater run-off.

The installation was carried out by Alumasc registered approved contractor Cambridge Flat Roofing acting as sub-contractor to Bouygues UK.

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Wayne Farrington from Cambridge Flat Roofing says:

“This has been an excellent contract to be involved in, one of our first major BluRoof projects. The level of service and input from Alumasc’s Technical department, both internally and on-site along with Alumasc’s Customer Services team has been outstanding.

Combined with the Hydrotech BluRoof Structural Waterproofing system, a system we have significant trust and experience in installing, we feel we’ve delivered a project we can be proud of. The feedback we’ve received from our client has been extremely positive and we look forward to our next Alumasc BluRoof.”

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For further product information about Alumasc’s BluRoof Drainage System click here or call our technical team on 03335 771 500.

Due to heightened activity and demand in the Northern Regions of the UK, Alumasc Roofing Systems have strengthened their ranks over the past 12 months.

From left to right: Liam Jackson: Northern UK Technical Manager, Tony Doyle: Business Development Manager, Mick Drybala: Northern UK Site Technician, Richard Emerson: North East Technical Business Manager, Craig Begg: Commercial Manager (Scotland), Neil Delve: Sales Director – Northern Division, Phil Graham: North West Area Technical Manager, Brian Flynn: Ireland Area Technical Manager.

TEAM BIOGRAPHY:

Liam Jackson MSc AIoR – Technical Manager – Northern UK & Ireland

Liam is educated to Master’s degree level and has been with Alumasc for 5 years, initially as site technician for Northern UK, working with and training operatives in all Alumasc Roofing System products. During this period he has gained experience and training in specification sales. Liam has been Northern Technical Manager for the past 12 months. Fully trained in carrying out roof surveys, specification writing, thermal/drainage/wind uplift calculations and computer-aided design (CAD). Liam is currently an Associate of the Institute of Roofing.

Tony Doyle – Northern UK Business Development Manager

Over 25 years within the roofing sector – Tony has worked for Roofing Contractors in estimating, contract management, business development and for roofing product manufacturers in specification sales and design office management. Most of his experience is in flat roofing systems having worked with bituminous membranes, single-ply membranes, liquid applied waterproofing and mastic asphalt. Tony also has a significant amount of experience of pitched roofing from his past work with roofing contractors and product manufacturers.
Tony says: “My approach to roofing specifications is based on gaining a sound understanding of the client’s requirements as well as the performance requirements of the building. This is achieved via a thorough roof survey and detailed discussion with the client and their consultants”.

Mick Drybala – Northern UK Site Technician

Mick has been the Northern Site Technician for nearly two years. His initial background was within the plumbing industry but steered towards roofing whilst working heavily with lead flashings on pitched roofs. Mick’s current role involves pre-start technical meetings with contractors and week to week progress inspections on work undertaken. His various other duties include conducting and assisting in condition reports with the local sales managers, as well as offering occasional support to the new build sites in the Central London area.

Richard Emerson – North East Area Technical Manager

Responsible for developing and maintaining business in the North East of England through specification with full autonomy of business development and strategy. Richard has experience working with a range of roofing manufacturers and suppliers in his previous roles and has helped Alumasc position themselves as a leading supplier within the North East over the past 8 years. Richard liaises closely with key Consultant Practices, Contractors and Building Surveyors to provide a comprehensive and professional service. Richard has worked within the construction industry for over 20 years.

Craig Begg AIoR – Commercial Manager (Scotland)

Craig’s vast knowledge of construction and specification sales has seen him gain valuable career experience over the years. Firstly, with Tarmac Group UK, then with major blue-chip companies such as Aggregate Industries and Rockwool. During this time Craig has achieved an ILM at Loughborough business school as a mature student. Craig Currently serves with Alumasc exterior building products as Commercial Manager for Scotland over-seeing all roof surveys and flat roof specifications. Craig is also an active member of the Institute of Roofing – Scotland branch.

Neil Delve – Northern UK Sales Director

Managing the Area Technical Managers, Commercial Managers and Site Technician in the northern region. Neil ensures the team keep close control over current and potential projects thus giving the customer a smooth experience during their project from start, finish and handover. Another key aspect to Neil’s role is maintaining and enhancing relationships within the contractor and client network and exploring new opportunities within the region. Neil has worked within the roofing industry for over 20 years.

Phil Graham – North West Area Technical Manager

Phil has vast experience within both the New Build and Refurbishment sectors having worked for one of the North West’s leading Roofing Contractors prior to joining Alumasc Roofing Systems. This experience has helped Alumasc further expand throughout the North-West Area. Phil is the newest member of the team and is already providing customers with technically accurate advice along with solutions that have helped meet customer budgets yet still providing a genuinely, robust and reliable waterproofing solutions. Phil has worked within the Roofing Industry since 2010 and joined Alumasc in Summer 2017.

Brian Flynn – Ireland Area Technical Manager

Brian currently manages the Irish market for the Roofing Division and has over 15 years construction experience. His previous experience includes project management positions and business development roles working closely with a wide network of specifiers and contractors within the roofing industry throughout Ireland.

Alumasc prides itself on the ability to offer existing and potential customers with the best, most effective solution to any flat roofing problem or project that may arise. Unlike many suppliers Alumasc has a comprehensive range of system types from quick curing liquid systems, Full warm roof felt systems through to semi-intensive, biodiverse and intensive green roof systems – all backed by guarantees and warranties of up to 35 years along with high post installation support levels.

Alumasc’s range of roofing systems can cater for any eventuality. The combined experience that Alumasc Roofing Systems offers their customers ultimately helps the client with a smooth, stress-free and effective solution to their problem.
Alumasc Roofing Systems also provide a wide range of rooftop management systems such as edge protection to help meet CDM criteria and drainage solutions that are guaranteed to work in conjunction with the roof system, all backed up by Alumasc Roofing Systems warranties.

If you would like to discuss any of our products or services with the team call 03335 771 500.

Hydrotech Structural Waterproofing contains an impressive post-consumer recycled content of 30%, making it the choice of professionals in an ever-growing sustainable environment.

Independently verified by Underwriters Laboratories – Hydrotech offers 30% recycled content.

The Hydrotech component formula is a unique combination of recycled materials found exclusively in Hydrotech, including rubber crumb from used tyres, process oil and inert fillers, along with the basic bituminous element. These recycled products are typically disposed of via landfill, therefore, the heightened use of these post-consumer materials within this hot melt system helps save the landscape and the atmosphere.

REACH Compliance

Hydrotech is additionally fully compliant with the REACH legislation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), which originated as a mandatory regulation of the European Union, implemented to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the from the risks that can be posed by some materials.

Sustainability

Not only does Hydrotech contain sustainable raw materials, it also uses hydro-electrical power as the primary energy source in manufacture. These manufacturing procedures are independently audited to the ISO9001 Quality Management Standard, and the product is imported under Alumasc’s ISO14001 Environmental Management system, thus ensuring that upstream production processes are monitored for their environmental impact and that careful consideration are made in terms of packaging, transport and disposal to deliver as sustainable a construction product as practicable.

This particular hot melt system also has over 50 years of proven zero project failures worldwide, on projects of all types and sizes.

For further information click here or call our technical team on (0) 3335 771 500.

The £4.5 million Moondance Sports Hall will provide a new space for the students of the college to work together to improve their health, fitness and wellbeing.

Image Source: Lawray Architects

This project utilised 1,500m2 of Hydrotech Hot Melt Waterproofing and Blackdown Green Roof NatureMat. NatureMat is a vegetated mat consisting of a biodegradable base layer, a specially formulated substrate layer and a 90% mature plant cover comprising of 6 core species (predominantly Sedums) along with 13 randomly sown species. All grown to maturity in Blackdowns’s own fields in Somerset.

A roofing system was needed that would provide students with an environmentally beneficial solution that would help improve their lives. NatureMat provides that solution by helping clean the air from surrounding pollution and contributing to the required acoustic and thermal properties needed for this project.

Another benefit of this system is that the location in Glamorgan receives high levels of rainfall, therefore a system was needed that could absorb high levels of rainwater and deal with it effectively – Blackdown NatureMat is highly efficient in absorbing rainwater and along with Hydrotech Hot Melt Waterproofing having Zero Product Failures in over 50 years this system will provide the sports hall with a long, reliable and efficient Flat Roof solution for the long term.

For further information regarding Hydrotech and Blackdown NatureMat click here or call our technical team on (0) 3335 771 500.

Smithfield Square is one of St James Homes latest developments offering luxury suites, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. The two live work units give residents the opportunity to relax in luxury and comfort, whilst being able to work with convenience.

Image Source: St James Property Developers, London

At roof and podium level a reliable, long lasting solution was needed for waterproofing the various areas, public spaces and recreational areas prior to architectural landscaping being installed.

Alumasc Roofing’s Hydrotech Hot Melt system, which demonstrates a zero product failure over a 50 year track record, provided the ideal waterproofing solution, 12,000m2 was installed in total.

The project included Brown roofs designed in accordance with planning constraints and London Plan guidelines, materials supplied by Blackdown Green Roofs, a Division of Alumasc Roofing. This combination of Hydrotech waterproofing and Blackdown Green Roofing systems allows Hornsey Depot to benefit from various ‘green’ spaces and St James with a one-stop solution in compliance to NHBC Part 7 policy.

For further information regarding Blackdown Green Roofs or Hydrotech Structural Waterproofing please call our technical department on 03335 771 500.

Monoscreed is a fast curing PMMA based compound screed (solvent and isocyanate free) comprising of resin + filler + aggregate mix. The cold applied compound can be mixed at roof level and applied to concrete decks (3mm – 50mm) to bring deck levels back to tolerance i.e. zero falls’ thus reducing deck deflection/back-falls.

FAST CURE TIME

The system is unaffected by ambient temperatures, is rainproof within 15 minutes of being applied and will fully cure in circa 45 minutes, thus offering significant programme benefits when compared with more

APPLICATION TO SUBSTRATE

Monoscreed can be applied directly to suitably prepared cementitious concrete which is free from dust, dampness, laitance, grease, oil or other contamination, and if necessary primed with Alumasc Bitumen Primer. The system comes in pre-measured packs of components palletised to ensure easy transportation to roof level and accuracy of the compound mix.

OVERLAYING

Monoscreed is also suitable to be installed over Hydrotech 6125, Derbigum bituminous membranes & Caltech QC cold-applied liquid where necessary.

For further information regarding Alumasc Monoscreed please call our technical team on 03335 771 500, alternatively call (0)3335 771 500

The prestigious new home for the School of Law and a new social hub is a key element in the major investment of £350m in world-class facilities for staff and students planned over the next decade at Queen’s University, Belfast. This facility provides several innovative teaching spaces central to which will be the Moot Court Room interactive teaching space.

Todd Architects specified a warm roof system of Torchtite Vapour Barrier, Alumasc Tapered Insulation and Mastergold Underlay topped with a Mastergold Mineral Cap Sheet – a full Euroroof warm roof system.

This roofing system utilised a tapered insulation scheme to help achieve sufficient falls to help provide a longer roof life for the building’s roof areas. With the existing deck being completely flat sufficient falls needed to be achieved to avoid any standing/ponding water which can form algae and moss over the years and shorten the membrane’s performance and life span.

The tapered insulation provided sufficient falls for the roof and met the required U-Values to help towards the building’s overall thermal performance.

All roofing work(s) were expertly carried out by Alumasc Registered Contractors Crown Roofing and within schedule.

For further information regarding Alumasc Roofing Systems click here. Alternatively, to speak to our technical team call 03335 771 500.

Tucked away in the rolling hillsides of Monmouthshire is The Decoy Bunker. The original bunker was built in 1941 and was designed as a special decoy target for German bombers. The secluded bunker has now been fully restored using Alumasc’s Derbigum Waterproofing and Blackdown’s Green Roof Systems and is now a unique holiday home.

As part of the design the bunker needed to blend directly into the hillside therefore a highly durable waterproofing system that could provide full protection from the water travelling down from the surrounding landscape was needed. A green roof waterproofing solution that would provide the maximum blending effect was also required to give it the desired ‘camouflage’ effect by using the existing soil and grass from the surrounding landscape. Blackdown Greenroof Drainage Layers, Intensive Substrate and Washed Pebble Ballast was installed to finish the green roof.

With Derbigum being a system that holds 40 year durability certification with the BBA (British Board of Agrément) – a Derbigum Black Anti-Root Built-Up System was the ideal solution. The Derbigum system sits below the green roof and provides a highly reliable waterproofing solution and maximum peace of mind for the future. Alumasc’s Registered Contractors Span Roofing carried out the installation with great results.

To find out more about Derbigum Waterproofing Membranes Click Here, for more Green Roof Information Click Here. Alternatively to speak to our technical team call 03335 771 500.

The newly opened Pets at Home store at Hedge End Retail Park, Southampton, provides a striking feature with its clearly visible barrel vaulted green roof installed by Blackdown. As well as softening the visual impact of the building, the green roof helped to satisfy stipulations by BREEAM enhancing the ecological aspects lost through the construction process.

The impressive 450sqm metre Kalzip, barrel vaulted, standing seam roof was covered with Blackdown Nature Mat – a vegetated mat made up of 6 core and 13 randomly sown sedum species – over a system comprising 50mm settled depth of specially formulated growing medium and a 25mm deep drainage layer.

Because the roof has a maximum pitch of 23 degrees, customised thrust retention battens were installed to the seam clips at intervals across the roof in order to stabilise the system.

Further enhancing the biodiversity within the development, a small 10sqm Blackdown extensive wildflower green roof system was installed on a bike storage facility close to the main building. As the installation was carried out late spring/early summer, Blackdown provided a tailored temporary irrigation system to ensure the establishment of the plants into the system.

Blackdown was in contract with T A Colbourne Projects Ltd and commenting on the collaboration Contracts Manager Tim Bench said: “Blackdown submitted a competitive and compliant bid on which we were happy to place an order. The installation went according to a tight programme with Blackdown working very well with our roof installation team and completing the works in good time enabling us to strike the scaffolding and start on the wall cladding. The temporary irrigation worked very well during what was an extended, very warm and dry period. We would be very pleased to work with Blackdown again”

For further product information about Alumasc’s Blackdown Green Roofing Range click here or call our technical team on 03335 771 500.

Pear Tree Infant School required a full flat roof refurbishment following an initial survey that showed that the existing system had come to the end of its serviceable life.

The existing roof finish was stripped back from the metal deck and a new warm roof system installed. The key objectives with this refurbishment was to achieve an average u-value of 0.18 W/m2K thus improving the thermal efficiency of the building.

Alumasc installed a new Caltech UV Cold Applied Liquid Warm Roof System with a tapered insulation scheme to improve the drainage efficiency and prevent future standing/ponding water areas.

The whole installation was carried out using ‘flame free’ products and methods.

To help further improve management of rainwater Roof-Pro ProDrain Outlets were installed – this guaranteed the correct detailing from the roof to the outlets. The existing lightning conductor system was also upgraded to the Roof-Pro Lightning Conductor Clip System.

Finally, a defined Caltech Walkway System was added to provide a more durable surface for traffic and again help to maximise the life of the roof.

Caltech UV has an extended life cycle due to its enhanced UV resistance and is highly adapted to cope well when exposed to sunlight thus avoiding UV Degradation. Caltech UV cures to form a seamless, durable and weather-resistant waterproofing solution.

For further product information about Alumasc’s Caltech Liquid Roofing Range click here or call our technical team on 03335 771 500.