Technical Paper No 17 has been prepared by the Metal Cladding & Roofing Manufacturers Association Limited (MCRMA) and Engineered Panels in Construction Limited (EPIC) as a guide to good practice and construction for the use of metal roof and wall cladding to comply with the following parts of the revised Building Regulations – Conservation of Energy:

For buildings other than dwellings
• Part AD-L2 :2006 England & Wales
• Part F :2006 Northern Ireland
• Section 6 :2007 Scotland

Guidance is provided for typical profiled metal twin skin and insulated panel systems to aid compliance with the relevant parts of the national calculation methodology used by the above building regulations. The freely available iSBEM (interface for Simplified Building Energy Model) v1.2.a has been used for the examples.

MCRMA Technical Paper 14 (January 2002) is quoted as a reference document in the AD-L2 2006 for England and Wales and Technical Booklet F for Northern Ireland. This guide updates the sections of MCRMA Technical Paper 14 with new information on the recommended metal cladding junction details and provides guidance on entering metal cladding systems into the National Calculation Methodology.

The current version of National Calculation Methodology for determining the CO2 emissions using BRE iSBEM has been updated to v2.0.c. The principal changes which alter the guidance given in Technical Paper No 17 are summarised in MCRMA Technical Bulletin No 14.

Please note:
These publications are only available in electronic format; should you have any problems downloading the pdf files then please contact MCRMA for a copy of the files on CDROM.

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Technical Papers

Recommended Good Practice for Daylighting in Metal Clad Buildings

Curved Sheeting Manual

Secret Fix Roofing Design Guide

Metal Wall Cladding Detailing Guide

Profiled Metal Roofing Design Guide

Fire Design of Steel Sheet Clad External Walls for Building:
Construction Performance Standards and Design

Acoustic Design Guide for Metal Roof and Wall Cladding Systems

Composite Roof and Wall Cladding Panel Design Guide

Metal Fabrications: Design, Detailing And Installation Guide

Fasteners for Metal Roof and Wall Cladding: Design, Detailing and Installation Guide

ADL2: Document L2

Guidance For The Effective Sealing Of End Lap Details In Metal Roofing Constructions

Manufacturing Tolerances For Profiled Metal Roof And Wall Cladding

Design guide for metal roofing and cladding to comply with UK Building Regulations (2006)

Conventions for Calculating U-Values

Best Practice for the Specification of Cladding and Secondary Steelwork

Index of Publications