Redland Slates for award winning hospital

Redland Slates for award winning hospital

Redland’s cambrian slates were specified for the roofing and cladding of a multi-award-winning psychiatric hospital, hopewood park in sunderland, because of their light weight and classic aesthetic quality. The £40million facility was designed to create a relaxing and non-clinical environment for patients suffering from a range of psychological issues.

The state-of-the-art hospital is a feat of ingenuity and the roof design represents the first step towards a new method of roofing. In a bid to save time and reduce the possibility of on-site accidents, Senior Architect Paul Yeomans from Medical Architecture worked closely with Redland’s specification team to design a roofing system that could be built at ground level and would not require scaffolding.

The slates had to be lightweight to make the process of craning the cassettes up off the ground and securing them onto the roof as easy as possible. Speaking about the project, Paul Trelease from Barclay Roofing Ltd. said: “This was one of the most challenging roofing projects I have been involved with. We looked at a number of samples and found that Redland’s Cambrian Slates were the closest match to what we were looking for. We worked closely with Redland to make the design specification work and we were all really pleased with the end result.” Since completion, Hopewood Park has won multiple RIBA awards, been nominated for an National Federation of Roofing Contractors Award, and for several other awards.

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