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A Bauder site technician taking a reading from the Troxler gauge.
Support your CIF bid with a Bauder moisture mapping survey of your flat roof
Submitting accurate, scientific information from an industry leader can benefit your request for funding. A Bauder moisture mapping survey of your educational facility’s flat roof can increase your CIF bid’s chance of success.
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he Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), provided by the Department for Education (DfE), gives eligible academies, sixth-form colleges and voluntary-aided schools the opportunity to apply for funding to improve building conditions, including its roofs.
How a Bauder moisture mapping roof survey helps your CIF bid
Bauder can assist you at all stages of the process by helping to prepare, complete and submit your application for CIF finances from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).
For the best chance of success in the next round of CIF bidding, it is important that an application demonstrates:
- A cl ear need - Value for money - An accurate timescale - Consideration of environmental sustainability factors
A Bauder moisture mapping survey uses a Troxler gauge that forensically pinpoints areas of moisture within a roof.
Therefore, instead of overlaying the entire surface, remedial work need only be undertaken on areas that require it. In alignment with the above factors, instead of relying on non-scientific assumptions, your CIF bid can include cost, time and environmental benefits, outlined below:
Cost savings
In its Information for applicants document, the DfE states that CIF bids should “demonstrate value for money.” Following a Bauder moisture mapping survey, your application can report clear, detailed and quantitative projected cost savings.
Rather than proposing the entire waterproofing be replaced, data from the survey identifies and quantifies areas that are failing and require remedial work, reducing
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material and labour costs. The more certain your costs, the lower the financial risk to ESFA.
Time savings
Noisy learning environments negatively impact students’ attainment, making project length a key consideration. Conducting works only on failing areas of the roof (based on the results of your survey) reduces your project’s timescale and minimises disruption to employees and students.
Reduced carbon emissions
A Bauder moisture mapping survey creates a grid map of the roof’s surface, and a reading is taken at each intersection that clearly identifies areas with trapped moisture. Sections of the roof that are dry and sound need not be replaced. As a result, the embodied carbon in these areas (that would otherwise become landfill waste) is retained. In its refurbishment of Kiln Place, Bauder helped Camden Council report carbon savings of 26 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2
Is my roof failing?
If you suspect the waterproofing of your flat roof is failing, a no-obligation Bauder moisture mapping survey will help determine its condition and whether making a CIF bid is necessary.
A Troxler density gauge conducts forensic analysis of your roof to scientifically verify the specific levels and locations of moisture. This testing method ascertains the true condition of the roof and generates a visual data report (a roof moisture plot) to determine what action, if any, is required.
The results gained from a moisture mapping survey will allow you to confidently decide whether to proceed with a CIF bid.
My roof is failing – what next?
If a survey reveals a high level of water ingress and significant areas of moisture, you have a case to be considered for funding and should start planning your CIF application.
e) as a result of a moisture mapping survey that showed 90% of the existing roof could be retained. As the UK strives toward Net Zero emissions by 2050, public sector entities (including schools) are under increasing pressure to illustrate a commitment to reducing their carbon emissions.
The CIF bidding process is increasingly competitive, however, with places of education battling for capital funding. The hard truth is that around only 30 percent of CIF applicants will have their bid accepted.
Bauder can help make your CIF bid stand out by including explicit data on the actual condition of your roof and accurate estimations of project cost, duration and potential carbon savings.
Should your bid be accepted, our long- standing relationships with schools and academies means Bauder is strongly positioned to deliver a cost-effective, minimally disruptive project that results in a waterproof and more thermally efficient roof.
Get in touch
To find out more about how Bauder can assist with your CIF bid, get in touch on 01473 257671 or visit
www.bauder.co.uk/contact
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