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We are proud to announce that CUPA PIZARRAS has joined the US Green Building Council (USGBC). PROMOTING A HEALTHIER AND GREENER ARCHITECTURE The US Green Building Council is a non-profit organization promoting sustainability in building design and construction. They lead the entire industry on designing buildings that are environmentally friendly, profitable and healthful. CUPA PIZARRAS’ […]

When choosing the materials for an architectural project, the architects usually look for the highest durability and the best appearance. BUT WHY DO ARCHITECTS CHOOSE CUPA PIZARRAS NATURAL SLATE? Consistency Unlike other brands, CUPA PIZARRAS produces and transforms its natural slate in its own quarries and processing plants, enabling them to offer any kind of […]

CUPA PIZARRAS has just been selected by the judges as a finalist in the Best Material Supplier of the Year category of the 2017 Construction News Specialists Awards! To decide the winners, all finalists will attend face-to-face judging by members of the 56-strong jury, drawn from the UK’s largest construction firms and the leaders of the country’s major […]

Skill Build Competition is the UK’s largest and longest running multi-trade competition with students competing in roof slating, carpentry, joinery, plastering, drywall systems… It is run by CITB and its main goal is to find the very best construction talent in the country. A real opportunity to enhance slating skills Roofing students from Leeds College of […]

Have you ever heard about the importance of the handcrafters in the natural slate production process? It is a dual process, combining the highest technology with the traditional know-how by our skilled handcrafters. To learn more about this career, we talked to Ruben Garcia Gonzalez, a splitter of Las Arcas 2 (located in San Pedro […]

The UK Roofing Awards, organized by the NFRC (the National Federation of Roofing Contractors), celebrates the very best in roofing! ALL ABOUT THE UK ROOFING AWARDS Since they began in 2005, the UK Roofing Awards have become an industry-wide event rewarding outstanding standards of workmanship and safety within the roofing industry. The projects don’t even […]

Choosing a CUPA PIZARRAS product means opting for peace of mind. Our quality systems go beyond international standards, based on decades of slate production experience. Unlike other brands, at CUPA PIZARRAS we extract our natural slate from our own 20 quarries and manufacture them in our 24 transformation units. The control of the whole production […]

Thanks to its natural properties, slate is one of the most versatile products used for roofing and cladding . But besides its durability and sophisticated style, a life cycle analysis highlights natural slate as the ideal material for the new trends in sustainable architecture. A MATERIAL IN A PERMANENT ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE Slate is a 100% […]