Roofing: Zinc

This material is becoming an increasingly popular modern-build option, with several advantages. It is a zero maintenance material, with a minimum life expectancy of 60 years.
Hampton Hargate Primary, Peterborough

Hampton Hargate Primary, Peterborough

During the last decade zinc has become an increasingly popular material with the annual volume used in the UK industry soaring from 500 to 5,000 tons.

While zinc is often associated with modern and new-build projects, it has long been an important roofing material - much of the Paris skyline is zinc! But in today's ever-increasing green environment, it has several important advantages. It is extremely carbon-friendly, with the great majority used for roofing and cladding coming from re-cycled sources and it is also virtually zero maintenance, with a minimum life expectancy of 60-80 years.

The CEL Group has completed many major projects where zinc has been the preferred choice of the developer. At Vine Inter Church School at Cambourne, some 5,000m2 of preweathered zinc, using the Rheinzink standing seam system, was used.

This material was also chosen for the school at the Hampton Hargate development at Peterborough, where The CEL Group used 3,000m2 of VM zinc for the standing seam cold-roof system.