CArapace Slate Modular rOofing System (CASMOS)

威尔士石板和天然石板在世界各地的国内住房市场上是一种非常受欢迎的高端产品。安装得很好，由熟练的工匠制作，几乎可以为任何房子增添美丽的色彩。然而，全球范围内的资源和技能短缺导致其在房屋建筑和翻新市场上的持续使用面临挑战。Carapace是一种新型的创新屋顶解决方案，它利用当地来源的废弃板岩材料来生产模块化的复合屋顶瓦，安装时间只需传统板岩瓦的一小部分。我们的创新使用了独特的联锁系统，允许用户简单地将瓷砖夹在一起，形成安全可靠的石板屋顶安装。我们的系统将减少高达90%的石板瓦屋顶安装时间；我们已经演示了在1分钟内安装1平方米的外壳是可能的。该项目将开发一种智能的、面向未来的制造工艺，以商业规模生产外壳屋顶系统，使我们的创新产品首次大规模公开销售。

Welsh slate, and Natural slate, is a highly desirable and premium product in domestic housing markets across the world. Installed well, by a skilled craftsman it is a beautiful addition to almost any house. However, resource and skills shortages across the globe have led to challenges in its ongoing use in the house building and renovation markets. Carapace is a new and innovative roofing solution that utilises waste slate material from local sources to produce a modular, composite roofing tile that can be installed in a fraction of the time of a tradition slate tile. Our innovation uses a unique interlocking system that allows the user to simply clip the tiles together to form a safe and secure slate roof installation. Our system will reduce the time taken to install a slate tile roof by up to 90%; we have demonstrated that installation of 1sqm of Carapace is possible in just 1 minute. This project will develop a SMaRT and future proof manufacturing process to produce the Carapace roofing system on a commercial scale, enabling our innovative product to become publically available on a large scale for the first time.