ABG Building Solutions Ltd
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ABG Building Solutions Ltd is a United Kingdom-based manufacturer and supplier of green and blue roof systems for architects, developers and building engineers. ABG is based at its factory in Meltham Mills, West Yorkshire, England and is a trading name of ABG Limited.
== About ABG Building Solutions ==
ABG has more than two decades of expertise in designing, manufacturing and supplying sustainable rooftop drainage solutions. The company is recognised as having pioneering the blue roof concept in the UK, with the first installation taking place at the University of Huddersfield. Since then, ABG has provided more than one million square metres of blue roof systems to projects across the UK and internationally.
The company manufactures over 2.5 million square metres of drainage products per year at its UK manufacturing base. ABG is accredited to ISO quality management accreditations and holds memberships with a number of professional organisations, including CIRIA, the Green Roof Organisation and BALI.
== Products and Systems ==
ABG offers an extensive range of blue roof and green roof systems, categorised into a number of system types.
=== Blue Roof Drainage Systems ===
Blue roof systems provide attenuate and control the release of stormwater at roof level, helping buildings and developments meet SuDS regulations. Systems are available across multiple build-up depths and finishes, including pedestrian and trafficable hard landscape options as well as green finish systems.
=== Green Roof Solutions ===
ABG's green roof systems span extensive, intensive and biodiverse configurations, including solar-integrated options. ABG's extensive green roofs can retain up to 80% of annual rainfall, contributing to sustainable urban drainage and flood risk reduction. Intensive green roof systems support deeper growing media capable of supporting a wider range of planting and landscaped rooftop spaces.
=== Product Components ===
Alongside its system solutions, ABG manufactures and supplies a range of system components, including drainage boards, geotextiles, void formers, growing media, vegetation blankets and inspection and restrictor chambers.
== Technical and Design Services ==
ABG offers professionally indemnified design services for rooftop stormwater drainage systems. ABG's team of designers collaborates with architects, engineers and developers to design and specify the full system build-up above the waterproofing layer to meet surface water reduction targets or discharge consent limits.
== References and External Links ==
* ABG Building Solutions website: https://abg-buildingsolutions.com/