Larry O’Connor, senior partner, Asphaltic, describes work at Primark distribution centre in Thrapston, Northamptonshire
Although not extraordinary from a design point of view, Primark’s 56,000m2 warehouse roof posed challenges in terms of its sheer scale. A new 25-year lease was due to be signed on the centre but the existing roof, which comprises five 300m-long ridges, was in dire need of replacement.
The location is very exposed and the roof had suffered from extensive wind damage and the laps and joints were starting to fail. Removal and replacement was deemed too expensive, so an overlay solution was considered the better option. The roof receives little foot traffic and very few services, so we felt a single ply membrane was the ideal application.
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