Benton Square, Newcastle
Client: Benton Square Industrial Estate | Location: Newcastle upon Tyne | Specification of Work: Roof Refurbishment and Maintenance | Project Length: 10 Weeks
The Project
The unit at Benton Square Industrial Estate had been left in a poor state of repair and still had its original asbestos cement sheeted roof from when it was first built. The appearance of the building was dated and unappealing to potential new tenants, with signs of water ingress in areas. Roofclad Systems were instructed to strip and remove the existing asbestos cement roof as well as stripping the galbestos single skin wall sheets to the whole outer perimeter of the building. Roofclad Systems were tasked with re-roofing the asbestos cement roof with Kingspan Quadcore 100mm panels as well as replacing all the walls with 73mm panels
Client Problems:
Our client, acting on behalf of the building owners, wanted to give the building a new lease of life as they prepared to re-let the building to new tenants. The asbestos cement roof, which covered approx. 1’100 m² was in fragile condition and needed to be stripped, before it could be re-roofed. The aesthetic of the building was dated, with approx. 1’500m² galbestos sheeting surrounding the perimeter of the buildings entirety which also needed removing and replacing to improve curb appeal. The works undertaken by Roofclad Systems were part of a larger refurbishment project with the internal of the building being undertaken with a full strip out of offices and warehouse space carried out by others.
Solution:
Set up for the works included a site compound within the yard of the unit including storage cabins and welfare facilities. Due to the building being empty we were able to store the majority of wall and roof panels safely inside.
The scaffold consisted of TG20 compliant triple height handrail to the gable end with a load bearing loading platform. Plain safe and debris netting was rigged below roof level using a telescopic boom in accordance with the recommendations of EN1263-2.
Our operatives commenced by stripping off the asbestos cement roof sheets, cement sheeting and plasterboard lining progressively and lowering to ground before being transfered to a licensed waste disposal site. We started laying the goosewing grey Kingspan 100mm Quadcore panels in a progressive manor including 10% Filon GRP triple skin factory assembled insulating rooflights complete with metal underlap. The existing parapet sheeting was removed and replaced with new 0.7mm plastisol coated steel sheets. The gutter was lined with a Weatherfast gutter liner including stop ends with new 4inch downpipes.
For the walls we progressively stripped off the existing corrugated galbestos cladding, fittings and internal boards, lowering to ground and clearing from site. All transfer notes being presented to the client upon completion of the contract. We supplied and fixed to the walls, metallic silver Kingspan 73mm Quadcore panels consisting of an external 0.5mm thick plastisol PVC coated steel and internal finish 0.4mm white polyester coated steel liner. All sheeting was fixed using nylon headed stainless steel self-drilling screws side-stitched at 450mm centres.
