IKO Polymeric

This tour of the facility at Clay Cross, Chesterfield, is an opportunity to explore new developments in single ply roofing and find out how technology can meet the demands of today’s design requirements. The tour incorporates a live hot air welding demonstration and presentation of RIBA approved seminar, Single Ply Roofing: An Innovative Environmental Solution. The factory tour will help you to understand the following topics:
- The different roofing membrane types and their advantages
- Good and bad practice of single ply installation
- Specification issues and key design challenges, relevant Building Regulations, single ply roof build-up, wind up-lift, drainage and U-value calculations
- Environmental issues, sustainable sourcing and quality control
- The latest offsite innovations in single ply roofing and BIM

Email the company for details of dates and places available. The tour starts at 10.00am and finishes at 1.30pm with lunch provided. Arrangements can be made to collect attendees from Chesterfield train station.

This seminar presents the polymeric single ply market and the types of systems available, with a focus on the environmental developments in single ply membrane technology, and it’s sustainable credentials.
It also looks at integrating this waterproofing with sustainable roofing technologies, such as thermal and acoustic insulation.