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Team on 21 April 2005
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A Knauf Insulation roofing system has been specified by architects, the Stanley Bragg Partnership, for use on a new primary school in Great Dunmow, Essex.
A Knauf Insulation roofing system has been specified by architects, the Stanley Bragg Partnership, for use on a new primary school in Great Dunmow, Essex The system uses Polyfoam Pitched Roofboard, Polyfoam Raftersqueeze and Knauf Breatheline to form an insulated pitched roof
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 29 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Great Dunmow's new primary school will be the seat of learning for around 400 pupils when it opens its doors for the new school year in September 2005.
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Designed by Colchester architects, the Stanley Bragg Partnership , the school is being built by Haymills (Contractors) for the Governors of Great Dunmow Primary School.
Around 2,300m2 of the roof is of insulated, pitched roof design using Glulam trusses and timber rafters finished with an outer skin of natural Spanish slate.
Being an insulated roof means installing insulation at rafter level and, to meet the Building Regulation's Elemental U-value of 0.20W/m2K, the architects chose Knauf Insulation's Polyfoam Pitched Roof Insulation System.
The system uses three Knauf Insulation products.
Two layers of 50mm thick Polyfoam Raftersqueeze were specified between the rafters with a single layer of 60mm thick Polyfoam Pitched Roofboard laid over them.
Knauf Breatheline was used to provide an underlay and vapour permeable breather membrane between the roofboard and slates.
Polyfoam Raftersqueeze is a rigid board designed to fit between rafters irrespective of their designed or actual spacing.
The secret of its success lies in the deep grooves formed parallel to its long edges which allow a degree of lateral compression.
Having been cut roughly to size, the board can be easily push-fitted - 'squeezed' - between the rafters, giving immediate retention and overcoming irregularities in the timber.
Polyfoam Pitched Roofboard was specifically designed for use in pitched roof construction.
Its strength, combined with rebated, shiplap edges on all four sides, means that joints between individual boards do not have to coincide with supporting timbers.
This makes it ideal for over-rafter, pitched roof insulation as reducing the amount of cutting makes installation very quick: the boards are simply laid across the rafters and secured with spiral-type fixings.
Phil Lodge, Managing Director of Newmarket-based roofing contractor, Lodge Roofing, was impressed with the system, saying, "We hadn't used Raftersqueeze before and were intrigued, and a little sceptical, about the concept".
"When it arrived on site, I immediately took a piece up on the roof, trimmed it roughly to size and stuffed it between two rafters to see if it worked".
"It did - in fact it was quite a job to get it out again! We're very impressed with it and would certainly use it again as it really did speed up fixing the insulation between the rafters." Polyfoam Insulation products are made from high performance, 100% ozone friendly, extruded polystyrene.
The rigid boards have excellent insulation properties and a high compressive strength yet remain lightweight and both easy and quick to cut and install.
Polyfoam Raftersqueeze has a thermal conductivity of 0.030W/mK and is available in three thicknesses - 50mm, 65mm and 75mm - and comes as a standard size board of 1200mm x 600mm.
Polyfoam Pitched Roofboard has a thermal conductivity of 0.029W/mK and is available in a range of thicknesses from 35mm to 75mm and in a standard size of 1250mm x 600mm.
Knauf Breatheline is a strong, lightweight polypropylene non-woven fabric with excellent tear and drape characteristics.
Classified as a breather membrane, it offers little resistance to the passage of water vapour, has been independently tested and holds three BBA Certificates together with their IAB equivalents.
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