Holistic Solutions for a Healthy Building Envelope

Manufacturers of construction products, including membranes, can support small and medium housebuilders in achieving quality outcomes in the following three ways:

1. Supplying membranes that deliver their promised performance.

2. Independent certification and accreditation that backs up performance claims.

3. Responsive technical support to aid specification and installation without holding projects up.

Without these three things, developers of smaller sites risk creating specifications that won’t deliver the desired outcome. This can lead to problems for homeowners once the development is occupied.

Using aerogel to insulate existing concrete floors can deliver a noticeable improvement in thermal comfort without significantly raising the height of the floor. Aerogel’s unique combination of performance characteristics also helps to manage any moisture build-up, where an alternative vapour impermeable material could lead to a risk of condensation and mould growth.

Breaking up existing concrete slabs is a difficult, costly and disruptive exercise. Retrofitting a traditional building, where the preservation of existing features and building fabric is prioritised, can make the exercise even less desirable. Aerogel can deliver modern performance standards while retaining existing features and maintaining vapour open building fabric.

Three ways in which roofing merchants and specialist suppliers can influence roofing projects are:

1. Helping roofing contractors to accord with architect’s specifications.

2. Supplying the products that roofing contractors prefer to use.

3. Where a product substitution is unavoidable, providing expert advice regarding possible alternative solutions.

Suppliers can therefore make a significant difference to the result of a roofing project. At a time when competence is at the forefront of the construction industry’s mind, the knowledge, experience and behaviour of roofing merchants and specialist suppliers is every bit as important as other construction professionals.

Manufacturers of construction products, including membranes, can support small and medium housebuilders in achieving quality outcomes in the following three ways:

1. Supplying membranes that deliver their promised performance.

2. Independent certification and accreditation that backs up performance claims.

3. Responsive technical support to aid specification and installation without holding projects up.

Without these three things, developers of smaller sites risk creating specifications that won’t deliver the desired outcome. This can lead to problems for homeowners once the development is occupied.

Using aerogel to insulate existing concrete floors can deliver a noticeable improvement in thermal comfort without significantly raising the height of the floor. Aerogel’s unique combination of performance characteristics also helps to manage any moisture build-up, where an alternative vapour impermeable material could lead to a risk of condensation and mould growth.

Breaking up existing concrete slabs is a difficult, costly and disruptive exercise. Retrofitting a traditional building, where the preservation of existing features and building fabric is prioritised, can make the exercise even less desirable. Aerogel can deliver modern performance standards while retaining existing features and maintaining vapour open building fabric.

Three ways in which roofing merchants and specialist suppliers can influence roofing projects are:

1. Helping roofing contractors to accord with architect’s specifications.

2. Supplying the products that roofing contractors prefer to use.

3. Where a product substitution is unavoidable, providing expert advice regarding possible alternative solutions.

Suppliers can therefore make a significant difference to the result of a roofing project. At a time when competence is at the forefront of the construction industry’s mind, the knowledge, experience and behaviour of roofing merchants and specialist suppliers is every bit as important as other construction professionals.

More than 12,000 square metres of a former tea factory is being transformed into a state-of-the-art broadcasting facility for the BBC – and Proctor Group’s Wraptite® membrane is playing a part in bringing “a 100-year-old industrial building back to life for the next 100 years.”

The Typhoo Tea Building occupies a full city block in Digbeth, Birmingham, near to the city’s HS2 terminal. The factory has gone unused for four decades, but is being turned into a net-zero-carbon workplace. The scheme is a first step in a wider plan to transform the area over the next ten years. The tea factory’s design, by architects Howells, was developed to meet BREEAM Outstanding 2023.