About Carapace Slate
A disruptive startup based just outside Cardiff, Carapace has developed the worlds first snap-fit composite roof tile which reduces installation time by 90%; stimulating house building and supporting our overwhelmed workforce, which is in rapid decline.
Embodying 80% waste materials discarded from Wales’ industrial past and produced using negligible energy in our revolutionary dark micro-Factory, Carapace will be the first roof system to achieve net zero from launch, and remain so irrespective of growth.
Features of the carapace slate
Features of the carapace slate
1. 80% waste by weight
2. Clip apertures
3. Weather bars, channels
4. Interlocking channels
5. Super thin – 5.5mm profile
6. Truss framework
7. Interlocking ribs
8. Weather barbs
9. Retention clips
Why the world needs carapace slate
The challenges facing roofing, and the broader construction sector today are foreboding and demand immediate resolve. Through cross-industry collaboration; where partners operate with shared ambition, vision, innovation, risk, and reward Carapace is working to drive positive change, while there’s still chance to bring things back from the brink.
GDP in UK construction continues grow but costs are soaring and the alarming skills and labour shortages are in continuous decline, all of which have a profound impact on the deficit of 4.3 million homes needed to house our growing population.
But what’s most alarming is the lack of affirmative climate action. Building materials account for around 8% of the UK’s operational carbon emissions, and we don’t even count any embodied carbon or the impact of imported goods. The challenges of decarbonising construction are formidable; and so complex that parliament has declined to provide any guidance or framework. And yet, led by market demand, sustainable materials are projected to be the biggest driver of growth over the next decade and far beyond.
There’s serious profit to be made for those who invest and innovate for the rapidly emerging market; and with forward thinking, sustainability doesn’t have to be an afterthought.
homes needed to sustain our growing population
time to waste
tonnes CO2e resulting from UK construction materials, each year
What’s so special about Carapace Slate?
RAPID INSTALLATION
Carapace self aligns and fully interlocks without nails or clips to reduce installation time by 90%. This step change in productivity allows more projects to be completed by our alarmingly overwhelmed workforce, stimulating home building and supporting the response to the housing crisis.
NET ZERO
Through lean supply chain management and negligible infrastructure Carapace has been meticulously created to become the first net zero roof system from launch. We’ve designed it to remain this way irrespective of growth, saving over five tonnes of carbon emissions per installation.
LOW COST, HIGH VALUE
Comparable to most low-end slate, classic clay, and composite roof tiles, and less than 30% of the cost of Welsh Slate. Staggering labour cost savings are to be made through a 90% reduction in installation time. Carapace is an effortlessly eco-product, without the eco-premium.
LOOKS AWESOME
Whether it be niche Bavarian clay, Welsh Slate, classic plain tiles or something discontinued and obscure, we can create a replicant with a fraction of the embodied carbon; low enough to be responsibly offset.
RECYCLED, CIRCULAR
For 100’s of years around 95% of quarried slate ends up as mountains of surfeit spoil. It’s this by-product that makes up 80% of Carapace by weight. There’s also things we can do with waste brick, fly ash and sequestered carbon and we continue to innovate.
SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURE
Carapace has created the TARDIS production solution, a unique and disruptive automated micro-factory. Taking just 2.5 minutes for a full production cycle, the Carapace TARDIS requires negligible energy, space or infrastructure with the capacity for limitless modular, distributed growth.
Team Carapace
Team Carapace
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