St Kilda Football Club

The Challenges

The 146-year-old St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the ‘Saints’, was a foundation member of the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1897 and is a stalwart of today’s Australian Football League (AFL). In 2018 St Kilda’s spiritual home in Moorabbin, RSEA Safety Park, underwent a two-stage, $30 million redevelopment of its training and administration headquarters that has housed the club since 1965. Bondor’s widely adopted MetecnoSpan® insulated roofing was specified for the facility’s 5000m2 roof and insulated box gutters. The roof and gutter installation required fast construction, with project completion due before the 2019 football season kicked off, a task the team at Professional Plumbing Contractors (PPC), were not afraid to tackle.

The Solution

Bondor’s insulated PIR core roofing MetecnoSpan® was selected for the project due to the products’ speed of installation, short manufacturing lead times from Melbourne, as well as comprehensive warranties and meeting the high thermal performance requirements for both R values and air leakage testing.

PPC project manager, Cameron Pryde, said the long spanning MetecnoSpan® insulated roof product was an all-in-one solution that reduced labour and the project install time with a product that includes the roof, insulation and a prefinished ceiling in a single installation. This is not normally achieved with a traditional built-up roof system which consists of multiple layers of roof sheeting, bulk insulation on a foil and mesh ceiling. The building’s thermal requirements were easily achieved with MetecnoSpan®’s extremely high R5.0 thermal rating.

“Locally made long roof panel lengths were also a great benefit as PPC used up to 20m roof panels which enabled us to install more square metres per day , helping us meet the tight installation timeline,” he said.

In addition, to meet the building’s thermal performance requirements, traditional box gutters required significant insulation, as a result insulated gutter system was fabricated locally using the MetecnoPanel® insulated box gutter system, which eliminated the need heat welding and allowed speedy installation of long 12.5m lengths. The interface between the gutters and the roof end lapping system created an air tight seal where thermal leakage can typically occur.

After installing the product and air testing the entire building, the MetecnoSpan® and MetecnoPanel® passed with ease.

BP Silverwater

The Challenges

The refurbishment of the BP in Silverwater, NSW, was constructed through local architect, Arrowfield, with building conducted by Clifford Construction P/L. The new service station begun in November 2016, with a completion date of June 2017, with a total project size of 1,300sqm. The client was seeking a roofing product that was not only stylish and sleek, but was time efficient to install, and held the ability to stand the harsh Australian Climate. This called for Bondor’s® 250mm SolarSpan insulated roofing product to be the chosen for the project.

The Solution

The project manager at Clifford Constructions P/L said they used Bondor’s products after Arrowfield architects had carefully selected SolarSpan for the job. “This was our first time using Bondor’s SolarSpan and we were pleased with the outcome. Its design intent was for exposed ceilings, providing a warehouse-style look, which complemented the polished concrete floors. As the roof material was a pre-finished product on the underside, this eliminated the need for internal ceilings to be installed.”

World-First: Secure End Lap Insulated PIR Roofing

The Challenges

Current sheet-to-sheet end-laps that are acceptable in other parts of the world have caused frustration and complications throughout Australia’s commercial roofing industry. These complications see leaking roof laps in several shopping complexes around Australia and are often very difficult to rectify. Confusion also exists around material warranties, who covers what and for how long.

The Solution

Australia is leading the world with Bondor’s new innovation in end lap protection with SecureLap by Bondor providing building occupants and roofing contractors with the assurance that their PIR insulated roof is sealed effectively from the harsh Australian conditions and high rainfall especially with ‘low pitch’ long spanning roof runs. SecureLap® is the answer to the “low cost focus”, driven by today’s market realities where a simplistic approach to connecting long panel roof runs over one purlin (rather than two with expansion steps), are required. Bondor developed SecureLap® as a unique lapping solution for local conditions. This was achieved through industry wide feedback and consultation, extensive in-house product development and rigorous weather testing to Australian Standards (conducted by CSIRO). For more information on how SecureLap® can provide watertight security and warranty confidence to your next project, download the brochure or contact your nearest Bondor Australia office.

UQ St Lucia Campus Walkway

The Solution

Equideck® Flat Roofing is a standing seam like profile with long-spanning structural performance, suitable for achieving a streamlined and minimalist architectural roof profile. Equideck® offers three features in each panel including a durable BlueScope® COLORBOND® steel roof, a high performing insulation core (EPS-FR) and an attractive, low-maintenance pre-painted BlueScope® COLORBOND® ceiling. Equideck® roofing is available in a modern COLORBOND® colour palette delivering a unique profile to designers.