{"id":1116,"date":"2019-07-18T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2019-08-13T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:11:55","slug":"new-code-sets-standard-for-flat-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/2019\/new-code-sets-standard-for-flat-roofs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Code Sets standard for Flat Roofs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published a new\ncode for standards of flat roofs BS 6229:2018 \u2013 flat roofs with continuously supported\nflexible waterproof covering. The guidelines contained a number of changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The update of the previous definition for a \u201cvapour control\nlayer\u201d to an \u201cair and vapour control layer\u201d as they perform two important\nfunctions. The change now recommends to avoid the traditional cold roof construction\ndue to the difficult of forming an effective AVCL, cross ventilation and the\nincreased risk of condensation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional breather-layer is now shown over the\ninsulation to provide an external air-leakage barrier and to help protect the\ninsulation against any environmental factors which may be detrimental. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">For more\ninformation please see <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingproducts.co.uk\/new-code-sets-new-standards-flat-roofing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/buildingproducts.co.uk\/new-code-sets-new-standards-flat-roofing\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published a new code for standards of flat roofs BS 6229:2018 \u2013 flat roofs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97,122,123],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-air-leakage","tag-new-code","tag-new-standard"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 22:06:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}