Graham Heath Construction can help you build your next bespoke building, offering a range of options to create the ideal building for your herd. Building design is very important for maximizing animal comfort all year-round.

You need to carefully consider the roofing, ridge and cladding options for your building to suit your system. Graham Heath Construction, have a number of options to help improve ventilation in the buildings and to reduce the key factors like; excess heat, vapour & dust.

Let us talk over a few options for your building

First let look at the roof

Fibre Cement profile roof prove to be the most popular for agricultural buildings, allowing natural ventilation and absorbing some condensation. They also come in a vast array of colours; Natural Grey, Jasper, Anthracite, Juniper Green, Black, Slate Blue, Van Dyke Brown

Most livestock buildings are designed with an open side and cantilever, this provides ventilation and an area for the cattle to feed with easy access for machines.

Next let’s move onto Ridge options

Fibre cement roof are also compatible with a vast range of ridges and accessories to suit every building type/use.

• Lightridge – designed to improve ventilation in livestock buildings and improve natural light transmission. Toughened waterproof PVC roof panels and wind guide plates will withstand most weather conditions.
• GHC Raised Ridge System – with this flexible system that can be set at a height determined to suit your cattle, the raised ridge system allows airflow were most buildings will accumulate warm, moist and stale air. The ‘Cap’ protects the inside from the rain whilst efficiently allowing the air to flow.
• Open Protected – With importance of airflow comes the importance of natural light which this ridge system offers. With a polycarbonate strip to minimise the driving rain, allowing natural light and potential to minimize the  risk of heat stress on your cattle.

Ridge on livestock building

Raised Ridge

Cladding options …

Yorkshire Boarding is the most popular with livestock buildings. Installed with a 25mm-50mm gap allowing good airflow and ventilation in the building to help remove heat, moisture and even bugs!

Concrete Panels

90mm | Ideal for livestock walling
140mm | Suitable for retaining wall for grain, silage and earth
170mm | Great for excess weight loads for high walls

Concrete Panel walling gives you a cost-effective and fast way of constructing grain storage, slurry storage and agricultural buildings. The concrete is easily cleaned and stays looking new.

To see the latest building offers from Graham Heath Construction visit https://gh-construction.co.uk/offers/

If you are considering a new farm building talk to the today for advice and a free quote on

 01270 781158