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A key design feature is the mansard roof, which required an offsite-manufactured ‘room in roof’ solution with the contractor specifying Smartroof as the company able to deliver and meet its requirements.

Whilst a Smartroof system typically averages 100m 2 in size, HMS required a roof 25 times larger at 2500m 2. Initially, this raised concerns for the Smartroof team in terms of logistics of the roof within the scale of the project. The old police station was a refurb and new build, which added challenges for the Smartroof team due to different slab levels throughout the building.

The advantage of the Smartroof system is that everything is produced in a factory-controlled environment so the challenges experienced at this redevelopment can be overcome in the factory, instead of operatives working at height when a roof is being built.

Commenting, Tom Wright, Design and Technical Director at Smartroof, said: “We worked very closely with the HMS team and also developed a great working relationship with the architect and engineers in order to overcome these design challenges. Such was the success of the system and our involvement, our Smartroof solution saved 16 weeks compared to if HMS used traditional methods of construction.”

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