Space

People are driven to demand habitable roof space by various forces including:

• the demands of PPS3 in England and Section 5 of the Planning and Development Act in the Republic of Ireland are calling for higher housing densities and therefore causing reductions in footprint size (these reductions are forcing builders to build up or down to put floor area into houses); and
• the need to fully utilise all of the potential for space to accommodate changing life styles – homeowners want extra space for a home office, guest rooms, children’s play rooms etc., or simply a warm storage area in the roof.

The Kingspan TEK Building System is ideally suited to the creation of a room in the roof because the System’s roof and wall panels can achieve U-values of as little as 0.18 W/m²·K as standard.

Kingspan TEK Building System roof panels are manufactured up to 7.5 m long and with the use of intermediate purlins, any size of roof can be constructed with the System.

When building a wall to achieve a U-value of 0.20 W/m²·K using the Kingspan TEK Building System, the structure can be just 223 mm thick. In comparison, a timber frame wall to achieve the same U-value may have to be 390.5 mm thick, (100 mm brick, 50 mm cavity, 12 mm OSB, 215 mm glass fibre quilt between 215 mm studs, 12.5 mm vapour check plasterboard). A full fill masonry cavity wall to achieve the same U-value may have to have a wall 430 mm thick (100 mm brick, 205 mm rock mineral fibre full fill, 100 mm dense block, 12.5 mm plasterboard on dabs).

This means that the Kingspan TEK Building System can provide more floor space for the same external dimensions. Ideal when considering compliance with the housing densities demanded by guidelines such as PPS3 in England and Section 5 of Planning and Development Act in the Republic of Ireland.