Recent case studies

Venue Sounds Good with Cembrit
CH Building Board from Cembrit has been used extensively throughout a state-of-the-art wedding venue in North London. Manufactured by Sound Reduction Systems Ltd of Bolton, Lancashire, the CH Board has been used as part of a bespoke acoustic composite panel at the venue.
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Raising the Roof at the Lancasters
Alternatives to blue/grey Welsh natural slate are hard to come by. Ged Ferris of Cembrit provides an overview of a landmark London project that demonstrates what can be achieved with Canadian slate.
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Metro Provides an Urban Flavour at Wendell Park School
Cembrit Metro sheets have been used on a new extension project at Wendell Park School in London. Colourful and bright, Metro has played a vital role in the construction of two exterior canopies that provide a contemporary look to the existing Victorian building.
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B5 helps visitors flock to Skokholm
Cembrit’s B5 corrugated sheet has recently been used for much needed restoration work to the visitor centre building on the remote island of Skokholm. Located just off the west coast of the Pembrokeshire peninsula, the island is uninhabited most of the year, but home to thousands of seabirds including around 50,000 pairs of Manx shearwaters – 20% of the world population, and an environment that will put great demands on any building material. The original roof had fallen into disrepair and Cembrit’s B5 was chosen to provide a robust and practical roofing solution capable of withstanding the weather conditions in the long term.
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True Class from Cembrit
Cembrit True cladding has helped create an uplifting new façade forHorizonPrimary Schoolin Swanley. As well as adding colour, the new cladding has created a modern, seamless look that has completely transformed the tired 1960s façade of the original school building.
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Help is at hand with Cembrit
Cembrit, specialist in natural and fibre cement slates, has supplied several thousand Jutland slates to a £9 million state of the art nursing home in Cardiff. The blue/black slates were installed by Camilleri Roofing, and have created a high quality and neat looking finish to the new facility.
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Glendyne restores Victorian property
Glendyne natural roofing slate from Cembrit, has helped preserve the traditional appearance and character of a recently refurbished Victorian property in Sheffield. Chosen for its similar appearance to the original slate, Glendyne has proved once again to be the ideal, easy-to-source, cost-effective replacement for Welsh Slate.
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Cembrit helps visitors flock to sheep centre
Robust, adaptable and full of character are qualities associated with Glendyne natural slate from Cembrit. All of these were required for the reroofing project at the Seven Sisters Sheep Centre in East Sussex, 8000 Glendyne slates combining traditional looks with long lasting performance to restore a 17th Century Flint Barn to its former glory.
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Hafod Goes Green with Cemwood
Over 1000 planks of Cembrit’s Cemwood have been used on a recently finished housing project for Hafod Housing Association in Bridgend, South Wales. Built to comply with Code Level 4 for Sustainable Homes, the development, Cae Gleision, features thirty one properties in a mixture of houses, flats and bungalows. Cemwood, is used as façade cladding on some properties and helped the project reach Code 4 Status due to it being a long-lasting alternative to traditional timber cladding, offering hard wearing performance and fire resistance.
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Cembrit adds luxury with Moorland Slates at Rotary Lodge
8,000 Moorland fibre cement roofing slates have been supplied by Cembrit, the specialist in natural and man made roofing slates, for Rotary Lodge in Worthing, West Sussex. The blue / black slates were used to roof this high quality retirement development of 40 x two bedroom apartments.
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