What is a SpeedZip® Standing Seam Roof
& Cladding System?

The SpeedZip® Standing Seam Roofing System is a ‘Zip Up’ roofing solution involving mechanically seaming a profiled side lap over a halter support system. Standing seam built up systems have been used throughout the construction industry for many decades providing a continuous weathertight roof with no end laps, and no exposed pierce fixings, thereby creating a roof or façade system offering outstanding performance, aesthetics and limitless design solutions.

The benefits of Built Up Standing Seam Roofing or Cladding Systems.

Built up roofing and cladding systems have been used extensively throughout the industry for many decades offering a bespoke, lightweight, high quality, acoustic and quick to install roofing and cladding solution to commercial, industrial, educational, PFI, MOD, Prison Service, and agricultural construction market sectors.

Bespoke systems can be tailored to each project performance design brief for New Build or Refurbishment projects from:

Single skin solutions for cold roof or flat to pitch over roofing refurbishment systems
Complex acoustic reverberation or sound attenuation design requirements for leisure or school roofing & cladding systems
Flexible and creative roof shapes from barrel vaulted, waveform, tapered, or ‘hockey stick’ shapes
Prison Service Schemes where additional security mesh and plywood layers can be introduced
All systems with U Values as low as 0.05 W/m2K and a range of differing materials and finishes.

SpeedZip® Standing Seam is the ‘Natural Choice’ for Zip Up or Mechanically Seamed Standing Seam Roofing & Cladding Systems

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Features of the SpeedZip® Standing Seam Roof & Façade System

With a vast arrange of materials, colours, and finishes SpeedZip® standing seam roofing & façade provides a sleek and elegant effect with the use of the innovative ‘Zip Up’ halter clip. The built up lightweight SpeedZip® is an ideal metal roofing and cladding system for both new build and refurbishment projects offering outstanding performance, durability and low maintenance for low pitched, curved or complex tapered roofing.

Available Profiles & Formats:

308* / 408 / 508* Profiles (* subject to minimum order quantities)
Seam height 65mm
Straight Low Pitched Roofs down to 1.5 degrees
Curved and waveform shapes in self-curved, smooth curved, or crimp curved formats to suit all barrelled vaulted, ‘hockey-stick’ or waveform complex shapes with no requirement for unsightly micro-ribbing between the main ribs in the pan
Tapered and radial bespoke sizes
Perforated SpeedZip® Cladding Sheets for bespoke rainscreen systems for new build or refurbishment of hotel and car parking projects.

Why specify SpeedZip® ‘Zip Up’ Standing Seam Roofing & Cladding System from SpeedDeck Building Systems Limited?

Single Source, transferrable Protector System Warranty up to 25 Years INCLUDING workmanship through independent on-site auditing of the installation for the whole roofing & cladding system
U Value as low as 0.05 W/m2K
Composite and Built up wall cladding systems including bespoke rainscreen systems to compliment the roof SpeedZip®
Single Source Supply for all aspects of the roofing & cladding system from liners and structural decks through soffits, and fascias and rainwater goods, completed with perimeter flashings and bespoke fabrications reducing carbon emissions through efficient and minimal deliveries to site
Systems available for both the New Build, Modular or Volumetric, and refurbishment sectors

Available Material, Gauges & Finishes:

Aluminium - 0.9mm & 1.2mm
Stucco Embossed, ARS, and PVdF or PVF2 finishes.
Steel - 0.6mm & 0.7mm
Leathergrain Plastisol, HPS200 Ultra, Colourcoat Prisma finishes.

All materials and finishes available in a full range of colours.

We are firmly committed to provide the highest quality products, using prime and true gauge materials to ensure the performance of all of our systems.

Available engineered built up SpeedZip® standing seam metal roofing & cladding systems for New Build, Modular or Volumetric and Refurbishment projects:

Over purlin liner systems both perforated and non-perforated
Long spanning structural decking or tray systems
Plywood deck / liner systems
High Humidity roof systems for swimming pool projects
High Security roof systems for MOD & Prison Service projects
Flat to pitch / flat to curved refurbishment systems
Over-roofing refurbishment systems
SoundRoof acoustic sensitive systems for sound reverberation or absorption and acoustic attenuation for leisure and educational projects
U-Values as low as 0.05 W/m2K
Living Roof Green Roof Solution
PV(Photovoltaic) or Solar Systems

All systems backed with SpeedDeck’s Protector Warranty offering a system warranty including workmanship by regularly independently on-site auditing the installation of the system ensuring that quality systems are installed to provide the highest performing roof & façade systems.

The SpeedZip® Standing Seam roof system 408 Profile:

SpeedZip® is also available in:

308mm Profile –Used in areas where excessive wind performance is required or to suit a 300mm wide cladding module.
508mm Profile – Requires rigid insulation to support the pan of the sheet, or areas where maintenance is required to use a bespoke walkway clipped to the seams with the relevant fall arrest system.

Indicative Curving Information:

(Please discuss all the implications with our technical department on a project by project basis)

SpeedZip® 65/408 Minimum Self Curve or Site Sprung Natural Convex Radius:
0.9mm Aluminium Stucco Embossed Material – 40/ 45 Metres
0.9mm Aluminium Painted Material – 40 / 45 Metres
0.7mm Steel Material - 65 Metres

SpeedZip® 65/408 Minimum Self Curve or Site Sprung Natural Concave Radius:
0.9mm Aluminium Stucco Embossed Material – 60 Metres
0.9mm Aluminium Painted Material – 60 Metres
0.7mm Steel Material - 60 Metres

SpeedZip® 65/408 Minimum Smooth Curve Convex Radius:
0.9mm Aluminium Stucco Embossed Material – 15 Metres
0.9mm Aluminium Painted Material – 20 Metres
0.7mm Steel Material - 25 Metres

SpeedZip® 65/408 - Minimum Smooth Curve Concave Radius:
0.9mm Aluminium Stucco Embossed Material - 20 Metres
0.9mm Aluminium Painted Material - 20 Metres
0.7mm Steel Material - 30 Metres

SpeedZip® 65/408 Minimum Crimp Curve Convex Radius:
0.9mm Aluminium Stucco Embossed Material – 1 Metres
0.9mm Aluminium Painted Material – 1 Metres
0.7mm Steel Material - 1 Metres

For all 1.2mm aluminium material curving information please call technical

For all waveform & hockey stick curving criteria please contact our technical department

Bespoke Shapes or formats

Tapered SpeedZip®

There are two options available for tapering SpeedZip® Standing Seam Aluminium Roofing to provide a radii roof shape.

Roll Taper
Weld Taper

Roll tapering criteria:

Minimum sheet length – 3 Metres
Maximum Sheet length – Maximum subject to transport
Minimum dimension between seams - 220mm
Maximum dimension between seams – 550mm

Cranked SpeedZip®

Specialist welded cranked aluminium standing seam roof sheets available all subject to transport. A cranked sheet is a bespoke fabricated SpeedZip® roof sheet formed by welding two SpeedZip® sheets. Used to form a ridge on a pitched roof removing the requirement for ridge flashing and the supporting ridge components or a change of angle on either the roof or wall.

Manufacturing of the SpeedZip® Profile

The SpeedZip® standing seam roof systems are produced in ‘our state of the art’ manufacturing facilities based in Suffolk and delivered to sites throughout the UK and Europe. As a single source supplier of roofing & cladding / façade systems we always seek to minimise the amount of deliveries to any of your sites, reducing carbon emissions and delivery costs.

SpeedZip® standing seam is not restricted in length by haulage as onsite roll forming of the roof sheet is encouraged to minimise the carbon impact of production by reducing deliveries on projects over 3,000m2 or where sheet lengths are over 18.5m long.

Options available to manufacture SpeedZip® Standing Seam:

Factory produced and delivered to site

Generally SpeedZip® standing seam roof sheets up to 18.5m are manufactured in Suffolk and delivered to site. Although this is the norm, we have delivered to site much longer roof sheets with careful consideration of the route to the site, and the involvement of traffic management services.

If the standing seam is curved, waveform, hockey stick, tapered or cranked then our internal sales & customer service team will be delighted to advise on the best options available to you to reduce cost and the carbon impact on delivering the product to site in a timely manner.

On-site production or formed standing seam systems

SpeedZip® standing seam roof systems can be produced on-site to lengths up to 200 metres offering a continuous weathertight roof system with no end laps for practically all projects.

There are two options available for on-site production subject to site conditions and parameters:

Ground level roll forming with sheets racked and packed on-site to be lifted up onto the roof for installation by our experienced roofing and cladding contractor.
Eaves level production with our mobile on-site standing seam roll former suspended from a crane provides an efficient and versatile for long sheet lengths.

Both of the on-site methods of production are suitable for all large roof areas requiring long sheets lengths, minimising deliveries, minimising packing and reducing carbon emissions. The mobile roll former can be quickly re-positioned, along the length of the building to minimise handling of standing seam roof sheeting.