EUSTON STATION, LONDON

CASE STUDY
EUSTON STATION, LONDON
Train Station Receives New Roof
Euston Station is one of the UK’s busiest train stations with
approximately 70 million commuters travelling to the West
Midlands, North West, North Wales and parts of Scotland.
Rebuilt in the 1960’s, the 55,000m2 roof area was in an
advanced stage of deterioration.
Project Sector: Transport
System: Single Layer Bituminous
Membrane / Cold Applied Liquid
Products Used: Mach One / Polimar Seal, Polimar
EC/UV, Polimar CRS
Contractor: Weatherproofing Advisors
IKO PLC liaised with installing roofing contractors
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Weatherproofing Advisors to refine the specification. Working
Size: 55,000m
with the public, and in a rail environment, Weatherproofing
Advisors had the added challenge of completing the works
through what has been documented as the worst winter in 50+ good condition, was suffering from water ingress via the rooflights
years.
and flashings. There was also evidence of joint failure in the
gutters and parapets.
Parcel Roof (20,000m2) - The roof membrane had completely
failed, exposing the insulation and metal deck. The existing 137 The solution was to install an IKO Polimar High Performance
Georgian Wired Glazed Units were also severely degraded and coating system to the gutters, parapets, flashings and rooflight
curbs.
required replacing.
The solution was to remove the existing membrane and
insulation down to the metal deck and replace with new vapour
barrier, 25mm thick insulation board mechanically fixed in to the
metal deck and new IKO Mach One elastomeric felt system. The
Georgian Wired Glass (GWG) was removed and purpose made
triple skin polycarbonate rooflights were installed utilising the
existing kerbs and finished with polished aluminium flashings.
Platform Roof (25,000m2) - The Kalzip roof although in relatively
Concourse Roof (10,000m2) - The various felt roofs suffered from
severe ponding water. This coupled with flashing failure above the
retail units had resulted in widespread water ingress.
The existing felt roofs were thermally scanned revealing around
1,000m2 of defective insulation which required replacement. The
3,000m2 high level roofs were overlaid using the IKO Mach One
system. Whilst a complete tapered insulation scheme was installed
to the mid and low level roofs totaling approximately 7,500m2
complete with the IKO Mach One felt system.
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