A ‘Giant’ undertaking for STYROFOAM

Work is well underway on the construction of a new visitors’ centre at the world-famous Giant’s Causeway – and 2,200 m² of 200 mm thick STYROFOAM ROOFMATE SL-A is playing a crucial role.

The material has been installed on the flat roof of the Heneghan Peng-designed building to provide insulation and support a wildflower meadow being planted as a vast, green roof.

It was the first time 200 mm thick ROOFMATE SL-A has been used on a site in Northern Ireland. The enhanced ‘A-foam’ – recently introduced to Ireland – is blown with CO₂, giving it a Global Warning Potential of less than five.

The Giant’s Causeway visitors’ centre has been designed to merge into the landscape. Locally-quarried black basalt will clad exterior walls to echo the beauty of the Causeway and the green roof will help ensure it’s the landscape itself that will catch the eye.

ROOFMATE SL-A is ideally suited to green roofs, with ETAG 031 recognizing extruded polystyrene as suitable for such construction. Along with low water absorption, ROOFMATE SL-A offers good compressive strength, rot resistance and long term durability, and is unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and repeated freeze/thaw cycles.

Visit www.styrofoam.co.uk for more information and news on improved thermal conductivity across the STYROFOAM-A product range.

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