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SIG Roof Lines: The RIBA Journal September 2014
SIG Design & Technology are partnering with the RIBA Journal to help supply architects with impartial, useful advice on designing flat, green and metal roofs. This morning the September 2014 issue...
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Liquid Waterproofing – when to use it on a roof
One advantage of working with SIG Design and Technology is that we can help you choose the best products for each application, independently of any brand loyalty. In this article we introduce cold...
View Article7 Top Tips for Specifying a Single-ply Roof Membrane
Get a single-ply roof membrane right and no one notices. But get it wrong, and it’s another, very costly, story. Steve Cleminson, technical manager at SIG Design & Technology, gives his top tips on...
View ArticleLive Blog: 8 Steps to the #PerfectRoof: RIBAJ Morning Seminar
October 22nd 2014 9am-11.45am. Follow along the Live Blog of 8 Steps to the #PerfectRoof, a morning seminar produced by the RIBA Journal and SIG Design & Technology. Here we’ll be sharing...
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#PerfectRoof Seminar – Ideas and Resources
It’s a week since our seminar on 8 Steps to a Perfect Roof, hosted at the Building Centre by the RIBA Journal. We thought we’d look back at the highlights and share some additional resources with you....
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Our Top Five Roofing Design Blog Posts of 2014
Last week we kicked off our top ten roofing design blog posts with numbers ten to six. Here are the top five most read roofing design blog posts this year – is your favourite at the top? Cue Fluff...
View ArticleRe Roofing in Action – Replacing a Supermarket Flat Roof in 3 minutes [Video]
Here’s a time lapse video recording of the replacement of the flat roof at Waitrose distribution centre in Aylesford, Kent. The video shows how the 10,200m2 roof is completely stripped off and replaced...
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Fixing Solar Panels to Flat Roofs – why we recommend an Engineered Solution
When you specify a photovoltaic array for your flat roof, there is the option of either mechanically fixing the array, or alternatively using ballast to weigh them down without fixing into the...
View ArticleRhepanol Single Ply Roofing Installation Videos
Our friends at FDT who manufacture Rhepanol single ply roofing membrane have produced a set of single ply roofing installation videos. These videos are an excellent introduction to how the product is...
View ArticleLive Blog: 8 Steps to the #PerfectRoof: RIBAJ Morning Seminar 2015
Thursday 1st October 2015, 09.00 to 11.30am This time next week we’re holding our second annual #PerfectRoof Seminar. You can still join us in person (BOOK HERE) but if you can’t why not join us...
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#PerfectRoof Seminar 2015 – Ideas and Resources
It’s a week since our seminar on 8 Steps to a Perfect Roof, hosted at the Building Centre by the RIBA Journal. We thought we’d look back at the highlights and share some additional resources with you....
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Your Roofing Guarantee – some things for architects to consider
Ross Finnie, sales director SIG Design and Technology, on what architects need to know about guarantees. Roofing guarantees are designed to offer peace of mind in case things go wrong, but in reality...
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Our Top Five Roofing Design Blog Posts of 2015
Last week we kicked off our top ten roofing design blog posts with numbers ten to six. Here are the top five most read roofing design blog posts this year – is your favourite at the top? Cue Fluff...
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Flat roofs on modernist houses: a Grand Design in West Sussex
The first project to kick off the 2015 season of Grand Designs was an enormous modern house inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion in Barcelona. The pavilion, an icon of modernist...
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Mastic Asphalt – an Introduction
In this post we introduce mastic asphalt, a centuries old roofing material that is still in use today in both traditional and more modern forms. In the next post we’ll introduce some build-ups and...
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When to Use Mastic Asphalt
Following our introduction to the topic of Mastic Asphalt last week, today we’re writing about when you might come across mastic asphalt and which types of roofing and other projects it should be...
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SIG Roof Lines: The RIBA Journal June 2016
This week the June 2016 issue of RIBA Journal is published, complete with our eighth technical guide: SIG Roof Lines. SIG Design & Technology partner with the RIBA Journal to help supply architects...
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Re-Roofing a Building when in Use: Vue Cinema Doncaster
When this multi-screen cinema on the outskirts of Doncaster needed a section of its asphalt flat roof refurbished as part of extension and maintenance works, the owners needed the building to stay open...
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Leaking Roof? Check it isn’t Interstitial Condensation
We’ve been talking to Ian Dryden, Business Development Manager at SIG Roofing, about an increasing concern he has for flat roofs built in the 1980s and early 1990s, and incorrectly refurbished roofs...
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When to use single ply membranes for a flat roof overlay
This week Frank Williamson, Technical Manager at our product partner IKO Polymeric, asks whether you can use single ply membranes for a flat roof overlay, and what you should consider when making that...
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