Client
Vasyl Pankovych
Location
Manchester
Property type
Private House
Product used
Opencell
Install duration
10 days
The LNER Stadium is home to York Football Club and York Knights Rugby League team.
The 8,500 capacity stadium was developed by main contractor, Buckingham Group in what was a £40 Million project and completed in 2020. The extensive stadium is now home to leisure and corporate meeting facilities as well as an NHS outpatient centre, library and a plethora of retail outlets in what is a massive boost to the local community. With the four year project now complete, the stadium should help bring elite sport to the York community and allow the football and rugby league teams to progress up the league tables and into the big time!
PROJECT
Brief
A low U-Value target of 0.14 W/m2K would help to future-proof the swimming pool and leisure centre against the potential for future energy price rises whilst vastly reducing the carbon emissions from the building. With the refurbishment project completed just before the 2022/2023 energy crisis, the thermal specification would in some parts help to mitigate the risks of rising costs. Working as part of a major overhaul of the building, the insulation works were a time critical part of the project that needed to work in conjunction with other energy upgrades, including a new heat pump. With the plan to implement a new ceiling below the insulation, our brief was to specify and provide a system that would meet fire, thermal and moisture management regulations.
Specification
The existing roof sheet was formed of a pre-insulated panel with 100mm of rigid PIR sandwiched between the metal outer and inner skin. This system achieved a 0.22 W/m2K U-Value which meant an additional 90mm of our Nexseal Closed Cell Spray Foam was required to meet the new thermal target. Although there are two variants of spray foam, open-cell and closed-cell, we opted for closed-cell as the best solution for preventing moisture from entering the insulation due to its high-density and rigidity. In addition to the insulation, we provisioned a liquid, spray-applied vapour barrier coating, ThermoShield, to ensure that the humid air from the swimming pool would not penetrate and damage the insulation and roof substrate. The combined system was approved by the appointed architect and we were delighted to commence works in April 2022.
Results
The 750m2 roof substrate was ready for us to install in Spring 2022 and we ensured that we mobilised at a time critical stage to deliver the completed insulation and vapour control layer coating within a 7 day window. Working long days, evenings and weekends, our teams delivered a neat and tidy layer of 90mm Nexseal Closed Cell foam that bonded to the metal roof surface to strengthen the entire substrate. Once fully cured, our paint coatings operative followed along behind with the ThermoShield product, installing the 750m2 surface area in just one day. The end results left the building future-proofed against rising energy costs and meant that the target of eliminating carbon emissions by 2030 was well on the way to being achieved.
