Creating flat roofs for a sustainable future
We are totally committed to reducing the impact our business has on the environment. Our goal is to ensure we pass to future generations an ecological, social and economically sustainable company.
Sustainability: managing our impacts
Sustainability is enormously important, and we are totally committed to reducing the impact our business has on the environment, our communities and our people. Our goal is to ensure we pass to future generations an ecological, social and economically sustainable company.
We understand the multi-faceted responsibility that arises from our role as a manufacturer in the chemical industry and are working on all aspects of our manufacturing and supply to ensure we reduce our existing reliance on fossil materials in our production process, while maintaining the durability of our roofing solutions, so they stand the test of time and provide lower whole life costs.
Our first steps have involved gathering data, for example, identifying our Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) and how these can be reduced effectually. Without a uniform understanding of our starting point, we won’t be able to identify and refine our goals.
We are now in a position to start to make positive change, which can be identified in developments such as our ECO FF insulation, which has a significantly lower embodied carbon than our traditional products.
At our core, we want to remain open to adaptation so that we can continue to evolve our organisation to be successful and contribute to a sustainable world.
Our sustainability framework encompasses four pillars: Social, Environmental, Economical and Products
Across our UK operations we are embracing our four pillars of social, environmental, economical, and products for measuring, communicating and reporting our sustainability targets and achievements. As we develop and improve within each aspect relevant to us we will share our data here.
Our sustainability pillars
Find out more about our sustainability strategy and how each of the pillars for social, environmental, economical and products are important to us. The pillars blend and overlap each other, none taking precedence, so that we truly bring a sustainable approach to all we do.
Social
The social pillar of our business framework focuses on people, ethics, fairness, and wellbeing.
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Environmental
We are committed to reducing the impact our business and manufacturing operations have on the environment.
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Economical
Our economical pillar ensures we think and act for the long term whilst managing risk and conducting ourselves and our operations with integrity and transparency.
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Product Sustainability
Our durable roofing systems protect buildings and people and can generate energy, promote biodiversity, and reduce water runoff to help protect the environment.
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How Bauder systems deliver rooftop environmental solutions
To accelerate towards a net zero world, we have sustainably focused solutions that reduce embodied and operational greenhouse gas emissions, generate renewable energy, improve biodiversity, and retain rainwater.
Find out how our range of insulation, blue roofs, green roofs and solar PV systems, deliver truly effective solutions.
Incorporating insulation in a warm roof or inverted scenario improves the thermal performance of a heated building which can help to meet building regulations, reduce running costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Each green roof brings back a piece of nature and the roof space can be vegetated to suit the access levels desired. Our green roofs can be designed specifically to support a biodiverse habitat through to creating outdoor spaces for people to enjoy.
A blue roof offers a sustainable drainage method designed to manage stormwater on a flat roof for up to a 48-hour period. Ideal for urban areas where ground-based attenuation systems are limited or where construction is being carried out within a flood sensitive area.
A flat roof is generally an ideal place for a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation, as it provides an underutilized space that catches as much sunlight as possible and is simple and safe to install and maintain.
The epitome for a sustainable flat roof is to combine all four of these solutions on the one roof space, layering them to maximise the environmental benefits. Incorporating insulation either within the waterproofing system or above it, then creating a blue roof for stormwater attenuation with a green roof finish, all topped with a biosolar PV array.
Sustainable rooftops to maximise the roofspace
Blue roof for stormwater attenuation, with biodiverse seed mix and our biiosolar PV array to maximise the roofspace at Cambridge University Dept of Engineering
Portsmouth University supports the environment with a biodiverse green roof with biosolar PV array
Barony Campus education centre in Cumnock incorporates a solar PV array for green energy generation
Clapham Park in London sports a biodsolar green roof with wildflower vegetation to provide a nectar source for insects
First Light Pavillion Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank has a sweeping green roof to mimic the circular shapes of the radio telescopes.
Solar PV array for renewable energy generation
In action: Watch some of our sustainable roofs in operation
Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI)
A new headquarters for a not-for-profit organisation in Oxfordshire supports sustainability with a green roof, a PV array to generate renewable energy, and a well insulated roof to conserve energy use.
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Biodiversity Net Gain
Chris Roddick, Green Roof Product Manager at Bauder explains what Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is and how the development of new sites are required to measurably increase the biodiversity of the site by a factor of 10% to improve the natural environment.
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On The Roof - South Lodge Hotel and Spa
Visit the roof that sports our wildflower blanket at South Lodge Hotel and Spa, Horsham, West Sussex
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What are BioSOLAR Roofs?
Find out what a biosolar flat roof solution is and how it benefits the environment and sustainability.
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Tom Raftery, Sustainability Lead Here at Bauder, we are well known for our sustainable flat roof solutions that incorporate insulation, green roofs, blue roofs, and photovoltaics. Our driver is to ensure that these solutions are accessible for specification to all building designers, constructors, property managers and owners so that every flat roof can be enhanced with an elevated purpose. Equally, with innovations such as ECO FF we are making progress at product level to ensure we minimise our environmental impact wherever possible.
Sustainability extends for us as Bauder is a family run, value led business, where our people are at the heart of everything we do as an organisation.
