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Greenhouse Self-sufficient cultural centre is music to the ears

Voice of the Industry In light of Brexit, what’s next for the UK construction industry?

Sustainability in Development Kebony combines beauty with sustainability at a protected site

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ast month we awoke to news that the majority had spoken with 51.9% of Britain’s population in support of leaving the EU. The result took many by surprise and widespread speculation and uncertainty immediately shook the nation.

Fears and unease over the impact this will have on the country as a whole and the construction industry specifically are undoubtedly going to continue for some time, but the consensus from leaders within the industry remains positive. Reactions such as this from RIBA’s President, Jane Duncan, call for a united approach.

Jane comments: “Clearly there is uncertainty about the timescales and impact on a range of issues important to our industry including free movement in the EU for architects as well as students, trading and material sourcing, inward investment relationships, EU procurement rules and the effect on the construction sector if restrictions are placed on EU migration. In common with other UK businesses and organisations, the RIBA is assessing the short and longer term effect of the withdrawal on our members and the institute and we will provide further guidance in due course. Most importantly, we will work with colleagues in industry and Government to ensure that architects have a strong voice in the coming weeks, months and years.”

In this month’s issue of Future Constructor & Architect, we hear from further industry representatives such as TenderSpace’s Chief Executive Officer, David Stapleton, on what he thinks is next for the construction industry now that the UK is set to leave the EU. Turn to page 18 to find out more. Meanwhile Monika Slowikowska, Founder of Golden Houses Developments, explains why she believes that Britain leaving the EU will have a catastrophic effect on the construction industry.

Elsewhere in this issue, we find out what’s been trending on Twitter – Switch House, the Tate Modern’s new extension. Meanwhile, Kebony showcases its latest sustainable offering to a protected site in Rye, East Sussex and BriggsAmasco reveals how it has taken The University of Leicester’s new ground-breaking medical school to new low-energy highs.

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06 Industry Updates:

FC&A rounds up this month’s industry news, including awarded contracts, completed projects and much more.

13 Legal & Business:

Monika Slowikowska, Founder of Golden Houses Developments, explains why she believes leaving the EU will be bad for the construction industry.

18 Voice of the Industry:

Following Brexit, David Stapleton, CEO of TenderSpace, discusses what is next for the UK’s construction industry.

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Coatings & Finishes: 40 Paints, Peter Crossen,VP of the Maintenance and Partsmaster Innovation Platform at NCH Europe, explains how the right coating makes all the difference.

42 Sustainability: BriggsAmasco takes The University of Leicester’s new ground-breaking medical school to low-energy highs.

Walls & Ceilings: 44 Floors, Style completes one of UK’s largest

24 Technical Focus:

Peter Thompson of ISO-CHEMIE UK provides an insight into the trade-off between airtightness and ventilation in sealing products.

32 Doors, Windows & Facades: Chris Oatridge from the Lakesmere Group looks at how supply chain collaboration is providing architects with even greater design flexibility.

moveable wall installations for the Vox – a brand new, first-class conference and banqueting facility.

Portfolios 10 Greenhouse:

Designed by Adelaide-based Architect Anton Johnson, the Ngeringa Cultural Centre is a selfsufficient intimate auditorium for the playing of chamber music.

14 Sustainability in Development:

Kebony combines beauty with sustainability at a protected site redevelopment in the ancient Cinque Port town of Rye.

34 Design & Desire: Bouygues UK and Asta Powerproject reflect on the challenges faced during the construction of 71 Queen Victoria Street, London.

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FC&A rounds up the latest industry news

In Brief

Mecanoo reveals Kaohsiung Station design

New London Architecture reveals the capital’s best architectural projects

celebrate new projects with the highest architectural quality as well as an outstanding contribution to London, the New London Awards features projects both built and in design – from a bridge across Regent’s Canal, to a church in Hackney and a centre for children with cerebal palsy in Muswell Hill.

Category winners and the Overall Winner are to be announced at the NLA Annual Lunch at the Guildhall this month.

Special awards will include the New Londoner presentation to the person who made a significant contribution to the capital in 2016, last year awarded to Zaha Hadid; the Mayor’s Prize for the project that has most creatively contributed to London’s economy; and the Ashden Prize, awarded to the most energy-efficient project.

An exhibition of all shortlisted schemes has opened at the NLA Galleries at The Building Centre,WC1.This year, for the first time, Londoners have been able to select their favourite, culminating in the announcement of the People’s Choice Award in conjunction with the London Festival of Architecture.

High-profile projects in this year’s awards include the transformations of Battersea Power Station and the London Olympic Stadium, as well as the new 46-storey office The Leadenhall Building, and the Francis Crick Institute, a

Paul Wilkinson appointed as new City Surveyor

ISG’s new CEO makes first appointment

New Managing Director for Mott MacDonald

The City of London Corporation has appointed Paul Wilkinson as the 35th City Surveyor. He will succeed Peter Bennett who is retiring after 26 years with the city.

Bennett served as the Deputy City Surveyor for 18 years.

Paul is currently the Director of Property and Facilities Management at the University of London.

ISG’s new CEO, Paul Cossell, has announced his first key appointment as Damian Farr is promoted to the newly-created role of Managing Director for the company’s engineering services business across Europe.

Damian heads up a specialist team that has delivered over £1bn of data centre projects across continental Europe in the past five years.

Mott MacDonald has appointed Ian Galbraith as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific and Australasia.

Based in Singapore, Ian will be responsible for the consultancy’s operations and strategic management across the regions. He succeeds Kevin Dixon who has retired from the company after 33 years’ service.

With its organic, curvilinear shape and landscaped canopy, the new Kaohsiung Station will introduce a generous amount of public green space to Taiwan’s second city. Designed

by Netherlands-based Mecanoo architecten, the station reaches out to the city in a powerful gesture, acting as a green connector that unifies different modes of transport and represents Kaohsiung’s vision for the future as a sustainable city.

CPMG at ‘center’ of leisure complex Architect firm, CPMG, is expanding its portfolio after UK-wide leisure group, Center Parcs, selected its designs for a new state-of-the-art hotel and spa complex on its Elveden Forest site in Suffolk. Work to build the £6m leisure complex has started onsite which includes 48 self-catering rooms with en-suites, adjacent to a nine-hole golf course. The hotel, set to be complete in autumn 2016, will replace an existing hotel to offer modern and sleek accommodation that will sit comfortably in the natural landscape.

Drawing Studio scoops trio of regional awards The innovative Drawing Studio at Arts University Bournemouth, which was constructed by Morgan Sindall, has won three high-profile regional awards.

The project was named Best Innovative Project and Best Building at the South West Built Environment Awards, which recognises the best of the construction industry in the region. The project was also recently honoured at the prestigious RIBA South West Awards, which celebrates the best architectural design in the region.

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New London Architecture (NLA), the capital’s leading organisation focused on architecture and the built environment, has announced the shortlist for the annual New London Awards. Comprising the capital’s most innovative and inspiring schemes, this year’s awards see 136 projects across 15 diverse categories, ranging from one-off homes, to community buildings, public spaces and major masterplans.

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Industry Updates

In Brief Urban Village nears completion Coastal Housing Group is close to completing a hugely exciting project in Swansea.

Urban Village is a £25m scheme for the regeneration of the High Street and Strand Row area. Urban Village has been built with an intimate yet cosmopolitan feel in mind, and culminates around the Village’s centrepiece – the Creative Hub. The Creative Hub will encompass everything from bespoke craft and fashion design to digital arts, broadcast media, publishing and advertising.

biomedical research centre in King’s Cross.

Other significant schemes to compete in the awards this year include Crossrail Place by Foster + Partners,The Wellcome Collection

by WilkinsonEyre and Shaftesbury Theatre by Bennetts Associates.

The regeneration of King’s Cross continues to make waves with several projects in the area making this year’s shortlist, including Coal Drops Yard by Heatherwick Studio; German Gymnasium by Allies and Morrison and Conran and Partners; and The Plimsoll Building

by David Morley Architects, all

receiving nominations.

Housing provision continues to be a critical issue for London, with varied residential projects featuring prominently on this year’s shortlist.

The regeneration of the South Kilburn estate is marked by Alison Brooks Architects’ Ely Court project, whilst the Somerleyton Road project proposes the creation of over 300 homes in Brixton, together with a range of community facilities – designed by a consortium of architects: Metropolitan Workshop, Haworth Tompkins, Mae, Foster Wilson Architects and Zac Monro Architects.

Creative and innovative workplaces feature heavily on this year’s shortlist as London-based companies seek to attract and retain the capital’s best talent within an increasingly expensive city.They range from the conversion of listed buildings to newly-built spaces, as demonstrated by the redevelopment of Triton Court on Finsbury Square which resulted in the creation of Alphabeta by Studio RHE, whilst Piercy&Company’s Turnmill now occupies the Farringdon site of the infamous Turnmills nightclub.

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GRAHAM Construction acquires new contract GRAHAM Construction has been appointed to a £16.7m Royal Central School of Speech and Drama development.

The new eight-storey North Block building will provide an additional 2400m2 of theatrical and performance facilities including double-height studios and a double-height basement.

The new North Block building will improve the campus’ provisions and provide access to cutting-edge arts facilities for both students and the local community.

Robertson commissioned for £6m York development Sheffield-based Robertson Yorkshire and East Midlands has been selected as the main contractor on a £6m student development scheme on Lawrence Street in York. The scheme development company S Harrison, includes the redevelopment of the former Grade II listed Lawrence Street working men’s club and the adjacent Tam O’Shanter public house, together with a newly-built wing. The project will create a 115-bed premium student accommodation scheme with a mix of studios and flats with one, two, three and five bedrooms, as well as communal facilities.

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Industry Updates

Architect in Profile Angus Morrogh-Ryan found his passion for architecture as a young boy.

Today, as the Director of De Matos Ryan, his firm has completed a wide range of projects that demonstrate its expertise and enthusiasm for design.

Here, he talks to Future Constructor & Architect about his passion.

Cultural organisations, for instance, need to be commercial if they want to survive.This means that we need to look more closely at buildings and how people behave in them to find new ways that enable more people to interact.

De Matos Ryan unlocked the potential of York Theatre Royal’s site to improve access and welcome and provide cohesion between the various historical periods of the building

What is your favourite building and why?

It’s a golden oldie, but my favourite is Le Corbusier’s La Tourette. I visited it for the first time as a student and still think about it all the time. Its sense of place, fundamental relationship with the landscape and its ability to modulate daylight has had a profound effect on me.

Please tell us a bit about your career background I studied at Cambridge in the early 90s and was also fortunate enough to go on an exchange scholarship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. I worked for Tim Ronalds before setting up De Matos Ryan with José Esteves de Matos in 1999.

Angus Morrogh-Ryan is the Director of De Matos Ryan

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Who has been your greatest influence and source of inspiration?

The ‘penny dropped’ in my third year at Cambridge when I was taught by Peter Carl, David Bass and Carolyn Steel.There was a sudden realisation about how important architecture could be at a deeper level, culturally and socially.The ability to affect cities and the way we live is a significant responsibility and a privilege.

What has been your most notable project to date?

Without a doubt, our recent refurbishment of York Theatre Royal. They are one of the most creative regional producers of theatre in the country and

yet the buildings that they occupied, after 270 years of incremental development, were holding them back. We unlocked the potential of their site to improve access and welcome, provide cohesion between the various historical periods of the building, create the conditions for a wider artistic programme as well as create a more commercial front of house.

How do you approach your projects?

Every project is different by virtue of the specific characteristics of the client; their brief, the site and context. However, common to all of them is an approach that starts with listening carefully in order to create a strong narrative structure for how a project will evolve.

What do you think is the greatest challenge for designing in sustainability?

People tend to focus on energy use when discussing sustainability, but often overlook that financial resilience is also required.

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What do you think is the greatest challenge for architecture students at the moment?

It’s important that students find a balance between being taught and finding things out for themselves.

I remember feeling like I had all the time in the world, but now realise that the years spent as a student are very precious to experiment and challenge oneself.

We are unlikely to have such an opportunity again in life.

What can we expect to see from De Matos Ryan over the next year?

Our HLF-funded refurbishment of York Mansion House as a renewed visitor attraction, that is also the ceremonial home of the Mayor, is currently onsite for completion this year. We are entering the detailed design phase of the HLF-funded refurbishment of the theatre and foyer at St George’s Hall, Bradford, and we are also due to create a new member’s club and conference facilities at the British Library later this summer.

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Greenhouse Externally the sweeping veranda roof over the deck fans up and out to embrace the rising view

The sound of music The brief from the matriarch of a cosmetics fortune was to create a world-class yet intimate auditorium for the playing of chamber music in a natural setting. The result is a critically-acclaimed music venue that has featured on the big screen and been enjoyed by thousands of music lovers in its first year of operation.

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geringa, (pronounced Ner-ringga), the Aboriginal word for sheoak, is perched on the hillside of Ngeringa Farm in the picturesque Adelaide Hills just outside Mount Barker on Williams Road. The $7.5m Ngeringa Cultural Centre has quickly become a favourite venue among musicians and audiences alike.

Designed by Adelaide-based Architect Anton Johnson, the multi-purpose 220-seat concert hall has been modelled to have a spacious and enveloping sound while preserving the intimate scale and aesthetic character of the space.

“Chamber music was always the central point of the brief and very closely allied to that was the rural location,” Johnson says.

“Without a doubt every musician who’s played in that space has remarked on the acoustics mainly in terms of the fullness and the quality of the sound. Already it’s starting to establish itself as a premier chamber music venue for Australia.”

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The building featured in Scott Hicks’ latest offering Highly Strung, a featurelength documentary following the fortunes of the Australian String Quartet, which has performed at the venue several times

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including at the documentary’s finale.

But its story can be traced back to the 1980s when Biochemist Dr Jurgen Klein and his wife Ulrike, a Horticulturalist, moved to South Australia to start cosmetics and natural skincare company Jurlique in the Adelaide Hills.

Jurgen left Australia in the early 2000s and Jurlique was gradually divested to overseas interests. Ulrike, who has always had a passion for chamber music, has turned her attention to philanthropy through the Klein Family Foundation and Ngeringa Arts, named after the casuarina trees that grow on the Adelaide Hills property where Jurlique flourished.

In 2012, after Ulrike sold her remaining

The roof structure employs the engineering principles of the ancient reciprocal frame

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stake in Jurlique, the Klein Family Foundation pledged $3m toward a $6m Ngeringa Arts project to acquire a unique set of instruments handcrafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, one of history’s foremost luthiers, in Italy from 1743 to 1784.

Three of the instruments have been secured through the Guadagnini Quartet Project and are on loan to the Adelaide-based Australian String Quartet, which also has use of a fourth Guadagnini. It is the world’s only matched quartet of Guadagnini’s.

Not content with providing the ASQ with instruments, Ngeringa Arts set about building a world-class venue for chamber music to be played in.

The centre’s commercial business model allows it to host functions such as weddings and conferences and also includes guest quarters for artists in residence. The raked seating is retractable, opening up a flat floor space to seat 150 dinner guests.

Its intimacy is enhanced with the audience seated around the performance space on three sides. A 9m wide and 4.2m high glass wall faces the summit of Mt Barker and the twin peaks, with a foreground view of a newly-designed garden.

Johnson says concerts are generally held at 3pm to maximise the view. “That

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orientation is directly east and certainly in the afternoon towards sunset the sun hits the mountain and it is particularly beautiful.

It’s a very close integration and synergy between nature, the environment and music.

“The history of the farm itself and the whole basis of the Jurlique cosmetics was one of nature and organics and purity so that’s what’s come into the building as well.”

The property is also self-sufficient. A solar photovoltaic grid generates electricity and up to 250,000 litres of rainwater is collected and stored to run the centre. A further 250,000 litres is captured and stored for firefighting purposes and all of the sewage is dealt with on site.

Natural qualities The auditorium has natural light and ventilation options as well as energy-efficient indirect evaporative room conditioning, LED lighting and full blackout. Fully interactive communication and audio visual facilities are incorporated for multimedia events, conferences and weddings.

The building materials have been selected for their sustainable natural qualities and rural character. Rammed earth walls are exposed inside and outside the building, sustainable plantation timber is used and the building is

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Every musician who’s played in the space has remarked on the acoustics mainly in terms of the fullness and the quality of the sound

clad externally with corrugated iron.

The roof structure employs the engineering principles of the ancient reciprocal frame.

The roof embodies simultaneously, energy and balance, in a visually dynamic structure.

Spanning between the primary beams are smaller triangular panels, each with varying depths for acoustic diffusion. Externally the sweeping veranda roof over the deck fans up and out to embrace the rising view.

Johnson has a wide range of experience from schools to hotels, residential homes and office buildings. He has also designed a chamber music centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

“Certainly music is something that is quite close to my heart as well,” he says.“I think most people would associate acoustics with trying to keep sound out of buildings, but in this case we were actually dealing with a completely different concept where we are actually handling the sound within the space and modulating the reflections and the refraction of that sound in order to enhance its qualities.

“It’s there for people to judge themselves but certainly we’ve had very positive feedback. In every respect it was a very, very successful project and we have a happy client, which is what we need.”

Ngeringa Arts General Manager, Alison Beare, said the auditorium’s acoustics had been recognised by commentators as the best chamber music space in Australia.

“If you look at all of the detail on the walls, every piece of wood in the space has been calculated to give the optimum acoustical performance,” she says. “The carpenters who worked on this building realised they were involved in something really special. The acoustician would fly in from Brisbane to check the work and the absolute attention to detail and every finish was just extraordinary to watch.”

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Ngeringa is perched on the hillside of Ngeringa Farm in the picturesque Adelaide Hills

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Britain now risks becoming an unattractive proposition for foreign investors from the other 27 EU countries

Monika Slowikowska, Founder of Golden Houses Developments, explains why she believes that Britain leaving the EU will have a catastrophic effect on the construction industry.

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he UK will be worse off in terms of its ability to recruit good people and attract foreign investment and funding for regeneration schemes. Procuring building materials in the quantity we need and at the prices we currently pay could also be a problem if Brexit leads to import tariffs and quotas.

In the UK, one construction worker in 10 was born outside the UK, yet the sector is still held back by a skills shortage. The leave vote will exacerbate the problem. These workers would find it harder to come to the UK compared to say, Spain, Germany or France. This in turn would increase

labour costs, which have already gone up by an average of 8% in the last six months alone.

There is also an additional worry about the effect that Brexit will have on EU-funded projects.

The European Structural Investment Fund (EUSIF), European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) and Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (Jessica) have, between them, contributed billions towards regeneration projects across the UK. As one of the EU’s biggest net beneficiaries of these schemes, we stand to lose a great deal if we leave the EU.

As an industry, we can’t close our doors to foreign investment.

We now also risk becoming an unattractive proposition for foreign investors from the other 27 EU countries. This is because increased travel costs and import and export tariffs could complicate the existing simple arrangements.

The same applies to buying building materials from our European partners.

Currently, 59% of the building materials we import come from EU countries, who also buy 62% of our exports in the same category. Today, these transactions are simple to process. If we leave the EU, we could pay higher prices and have to contend with more red tape. The inevitable result of this will be higher house prices across the UK.

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Leave vote catastrophic for construction industry

Monika Slowikowska has been working in the UK construction industry for over 16 years, holding multiple roles in engineering, architectural and construction companies. One of her projects was shortlisted at the RIBA Awards in 2011 and featured on the cover of ELLE Decoration in May 2012. Monika was a finalist in the 2015 Women in Construction & Engineering Awards in the Best Woman Contractor category.

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Sustainability in Development

The new scheme has greatly improved the surrounding streetscape, while maintaining much of the character of the historic town

Kebony is first port of call Tropical hardwood specialist, Kebony, has combined beauty with sustainability at a protected site redevelopment in Rye, East Sussex.

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former industrial site in the ancient Cinque Port town of Rye has recently undergone a ÂŁ2.3m transformation to create a mixed-use scheme with an impressive angular wooden facade, crafted from Kebony.The redevelopment, overseen by JD Architects (JDA), has united a disparate site, left as a derelict infill since the demolition of the

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1050m2 former Central Garage site, which occupied the space until 2002.

Cinque Ports Street was recognised for its clever design and sustainable focus by the Royal Institute of British Architects which announced the project as a winner at this year’s RIBA Regional South East Award.

The new scheme has greatly improved the surrounding streetscape, while maintaining

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Fact File Client: Cinque Ports Developments Architect: Jonathan Dunn Architects Contractor: Jenner Construction Structural Engineers: JM Loades Associates MEP Engineers: Reina Group Landscape Architects: Jonathan Dunn Architects

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JDA was keen to ensure that beyond being merely an aesthetically beautiful design, the finished project utilised sustainable construction materials

Blending in JD Architects aimed to create a structure that blended with the surrounding properties whilst being eye-catching and beautiful. Heavily influenced by local history, the architects looked to traditional East Sussex coastal architecture where they observed the interweaving of simple lines.

The Cinque Ports Street development maintains this tradition of ostensibly simple forms with a simple wooden frontage inspired by the nearby shipyard warehouses, which influenced the decision to build such a high proportion of the site out of wood.

One of the more distinctive elements of the design is the dramatic angular roof line which emulates and exaggerates the neighbouring gabled roofs.The steep pitch of the roofing at either end creates a dramatic silhouette on the streetscape whilst ensuring that the new development matches the heights of adjoining buildings.

The apparent simplicity belies careful planning in the building’s details and a focus on sleek simplicity in design. Each window is positioned within the cladding board rhythms with the window frames and guttering concealed behind the Kebony facade in order

to maintain the uniform exterior surface. Each window is cleverly placed with expansive glass openings to create light throughout the year, maximising the properties’ views towards the nearby Rother Valley.

The architectural history of Rye also provided some challenges to construction.

Prior to construction, significant archaeological digs and studies had to be carried out to inform the design parameters and avoid disruption to the remains of Rye’s medieval town wall, which runs through the site and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SAM).The choice to use timber cladding allowed for these walls to be maintained without damage, while simultaneously modernising the external appearance of the buildings with an elegant and understated design.

Sustainable construction The architects at JDA were keen to ensure that beyond being merely an aesthetically beautiful design, the finished project utilised sustainable construction materials and would be environmentally-friendly with minimum waste.The construction techniques used include a prefabricated timber frame system which allowed for the exterior cladding boards to be insulated in factory conditions before being transported to the site to be assembled quickly upon arrival via a panelised timber frame. By assembling the structure in panels, and choosing to use only whole boards, construction waste was kept to a minimum.

The materials used in construction further reinforced the project’s environmentally sustainable focus. High demand for tropical hardwood for use in construction has, in

This visually striking build is predominantly for residential use comprising six flats, two penthouses, a detached house and a studio flat, all clad in a beautiful Kebony exterior

part, contributed to a third of the world’s rainforests disappearing in the last 50 years.

Instead of relying on high-performance, environmentally detrimental timber for Cinque Ports Street, the architects settled on modified softwood as a sustainable alternative. Kebony was chosen for the cladding both due to its environmental credentials, but also due to the wood’s beautiful dark colouration, similar to that of a tropical hardwood such as teak

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much of the character of the historic town through clever design choices, which draw inspiration from the town’s maritime past.

This visually striking build is predominantly for residential use comprising six flats, two penthouses, a detached house and a studio flat, all clad in a beautiful Kebony exterior and set around a central courtyard which separates the bulk of the structure on the street front from the rear two buildings.

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Sustainability in Development Kebony was chosen for the cladding both due to its environmental credentials, but also due to the wood’s beautiful dark colouration

Archaeological digs and studies had to be carried out to avoid disruption to the remains of Rye’s medieval town wall which runs through the site

Eco-friendly selections Developed in Norway, the Kebony technology is an environmentally-friendly, patented process, which enhances the properties of fastgrowing sustainable softwood with a bio-based liquid. By impregnating the wood with furfuryl alcohol, the wood’s cell wall is polymerised resulting in greatly improved durability and dimensional stability.This process gives sustainably sourced softwoods, such as radiata or Scots pine, the performance characteristics of tropical hardwoods, while mitigating the demand for tropical deforestation.

A comparative study by environmental consulting firm Bergfald & Co, showed that Kebony has a carbon footprint of less than 10% when compared with unsustainable clear

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fell Burmese teak or ipê from Brazil.The study showed that the carbon footprint for Brazilian ipê falls in the range of 7500–15,000 kilograms per cubic meter, while the carbon footprint of modified Kebony is approximately 459 kilograms per cubic meter. Both figures include treatment and transportation to Northern Europe.The patented Kebony process increases the wood’s lifecycle and resistance to wear and weathering without the need for chemical treatments or maintenance during the product’s lifecycle of more than 40 years.

The high performance qualities and resistance to water absorption make Kebony the perfect material for external cladding boards in projects such as this.

Jonathan Dunn, Lead Architect on this project, commented:“This was a fascinating project to be involved with as we had to come up with a beautiful design that modernised the site while preserving the medieval town wall. Kebony cladding proved to be a fantastic solution, providing a contemporary look which draws on elements of local history and is a great asset for the town of Rye.”

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The architects settled on modified softwood as a sustainable alternative

Adrian Pye, International Sales Director at Kebony, added:“The architects at JDA have done a fantastic job, taking a derelict site and transforming it with a beautiful contemporary design in keeping with the area’s history. From the Kebony clad frontage to the carefully considered window placement, a great amount of time and thought has gone into the design details and we are delighted with the end result.”

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Voice of the Industry The UK could be more freely able to foster and forge relationships with public sector procurement specialists, free of stultifying procedures and processes

With the UK set to leave the EU, what’s next for the UK’s construction industry?

When the UK woke up to the news that it had officially left the European Union, there was a feeling of uncertainty and a question of ‘what now?’ in the air. We have not seen change like this in 43 years, so how long will it take us to adapt to being independent once more? Here, David Stapleton, Chief Executive Officer of TenderSpace, elaborates.

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ne thing is for certain, we must put aside our personal beliefs and accept that we have to work together to establish a strong and new UK. But what exactly does it mean for those involved in, and dependent upon, construction here in the UK? Now that we are on the ‘outside’ of it all, I want to put forward some suggestions as to what could happen to the industry.

New opportunities We will certainly now have greater opportunities to bid for public sector contracts – without the interference of the Official Journal of European Union (OJEU) businesses we will be more freely able to foster and forge relationships with public sector procurement specialists, free of stultifying procedures and processes.

With these new opportunities comes the need to showcase our skills and

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expertise in order to qualify for the chance to access the latest prospects.

Initially UK manufacturers and suppliers will need to work harder and be smarter to both innovate and market their products and services in the best way.

Historically, the UK paved the way in technological and industrial advances, but for whatever reason (perhaps our historic reluctance to converse in other languages, or perhaps a lack of fresh skills) this is no longer the case. The ability to tell the world that we’re back in business and to develop marketing and brand awareness will be essential if manufacturers and suppliers want to stand out from the crowd.

SMEs vs large businesses When it comes to analysing which businesses the ‘leave’ outcome will have the most significant impact on, it is likely that SMEs will not find it too difficult to

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Before setting up TenderSpace, David Stapleton ran a number of successful commercial property companies including Sherborne Land, a private property development and investment company concentrating on the South and South West of England, specialising in retail park, leisure and office development.

adapt. In 2015 there were 5.4 million SME businesses in the UK, with just under a fifth, or 956,000, of all SMEs operating in the construction sector. Of these, research shows that only a relatively small proportion of UK construction contracting firms are exporters, with recent figures showing that only 6% of construction SMEs exported. SMEs involved in construction certainly have the skill sets in place and know-how to make the most out of trading within the UK. Larger businesses on the other hand, the bulk of whom were in favour of staying within the Union, are now finding themselves entering a period of threat and challenge. This of course can come from overseas, but it can also come from within as the economies of scale that they benefit from also served as barriers for the smaller businesses. This could become less relevant in years to come as nimble and assertive SMEs challenge the old status quo.

Access to labour and overseas trading The free movement of labour between the UK and other EU member states has always been considered a cornerstone of

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A strong health and safety culture has seen a clear erosion of neglect and careless practices

press harder into our existing construction markets.The Chinese have already started bringing in their own work force and construction expertise on large-scale UK projects and the apparent demise of our steel industry is testament to the fact that we need to work harder and innovate.

Safety in construction Our membership of the EU was, it must be agreed, extremely beneficial in driving forward best practices for health and safety.

When it comes to analysing which businesses the ‘leave’ outcome will have the most significant impact on, it is likely that SMEs will not find it too difficult to adapt

The construction industry today is a far safer place to work than it was in the late 70s and 80s. A strong health and safety culture has seen a clear erosion of neglect and careless practices, greatly reducing accident and injury rates across an industry previously plagued with tragedy.

For proof of this, we need only compare the accident rates during the London Olympics with that of Rio, where eleven workers have died between 2013 and 2016 compared to none during the preparation for the London games.

Those hard won improvements in working practices must not and will not be eroded. Not everything that emanated from Brussels was bad and the legislative framework that has been created in regards to health and safety should ensure rights and duties are protected.

Whatever your view, whether you voted to stay or to leave, it is vital that we collaborate and adapt quickly.

Whatever your sentiment, we are now sitting together in a smaller but fundamentally watertight boat. It is up to us as an industry and as a nation to chart our course. We have world-class skills, innovators and technology and we must not dwell upon what might have been, but instead must show leadership and take our skills to a wider market.

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the UK industry’s success; however, we can now expect the potential of restricted access to itinerant labour and skills.

Therefore, it will now be more important than ever that our industry invests in training in order to retain a skilled workforce for the future. The perception of access to a cheap ‘work ready’ labour force has always restricted the incentive to train, but things are different now.

With open trading (which is what many believed was at the heart of the EU) there will be other competitive threats to UK businesses. Not least from Asian countries; with their competitive manufacturing capacity and abilities. It used to be the case that ‘made in China’ was a synonym for poor-quality, but this has not been the case for many years as Asian economies have advanced and flourished.When their phenomenal growth slows – as it has been doing – they will

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Rainscreen Cladding

Using a precision rainscreen system enables the design of an ethically conscious building, as aluminium, steel and timber rainscreen are all 100% recyclable at the end of their lifetime

The importance of precision rainscreen in facade cladding Rainscreen systems have been in use for centuries. However, in recent years, innovation and smarter technologies have allowed the market to advance rapidly. Throughout the design and construction process, using a precision rainscreen system ensures that a project is delivered on time, on budget and with minimal material wastage.

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ith precision technology that reduces the risk of error, contractors can be assured that the panels they receive onsite are exactly as specified by the architect. This minimises the risk of project delays, and allows the design and construction to remain a cost-effective process throughout. In addition, using a precision rainscreen system also enables the design of an ethically conscious building, as aluminium, steel and timber rainscreen are all 100% recyclable at the end of their lifetime. This provides the end client with further lifetime performance guarantees.

The wide variety of choice of metals, in a vast selection of colours, available with precision rainscreen design allows

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for a bespoke finish to the building. As the rainscreen forms the outer layer of the building alone, the building’s energy performance is primarily dictated by the structural backing that forms the external envelope wall, giving architects an increased flexibility in external facade design options.

Furthermore, structural advantages to the rainscreen systems allow, should needs arise, for a panel to be removed and replaced with ease, without impacting upon the wider building envelope. In fact, the entire facade can be replaced with new colours or materials with no impact on the structure, support system or building envelope membrane – providing a wealth of design possibilities for the architect.

Using a dedicated software system

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ensures the utmost accuracy in design and construction. As industry-leading rainscreen system manufacturers produce a 3D visualisation of the building envelope, it is typical to require further modelling or prototyping. In addition to the aforementioned cost saving benefits, advanced precision rainscreen design systems allow any possible installation issues to be highlighted ahead of manufacture. With the system’s ability to consider loadings, thermal factors and environmental conditions, the building envelope facade can be designed to the exact millimetre.

3D rainscreen design will also allow production of an exact image of the finished facade. This not only enables the designer to visualise the aesthetics of the finish, but also highlights any areas of potential problems with installation.

The performance of the building can be accurately calculated, allowing for improved consistency across the building envelope’s design and construction. Areas where materials meet are clearly identified; this not only provides assurance that the building will be fully protected, but it also ensures that the architect’s vision and the final finish are perfectly matched.

Richard Clough, at BTS Fabrications, states: “Quality conscious manufactures of precision rainscreen systems like us at BTS, also give utmost consideration to the fabrication of their systems. By using the most modern, intelligent manufacturing equipment such as Alu-Ranger CNC Controlled machinery, coupled to the 3D drawing tools, perfect manufacturing tolerances are achieved.”

BTS also holds ISO 9001 accreditation to support its quality ethos and ISO 14001 to backup its recycling and environmental claims.

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Flooring

All four colourways – Molten, Iron Ore, Eisen and Carbon – present the transformation of weathered steel over time

Karndean Designflooring takes its Da Vinci collection to the next level

From the striking rust and weathered tones of Molten to the subtle, dark hues of Carbon, all four colourways – Molten, Iron Ore, Eisen and Carbon – present the transformation of weathered steel over time, and are ideally placed against plain walls, exposed brick and simple furnishings for a stark, on-trend industrial feel.

Designed to offer a sophisticated and understated look, the four natural stone designs feature the realistic grain and fossilisation of limestone. Perfect for both residential and commercial specifications, there’s the creamy tones of Dune and Bluff to the darker, grainer Sable and Drift.

The final three designs in the collection – Burnet, Cambric and Sindon – challenge what we see as stone and offer modern, natural colours with a minimalistic look and subtle strands across each tile. Taking inspiration from natural fabrics and concrete combined, the designs can be purposely misleading and interpreted as natural woven fabric or lightly brushed concrete.

Introducing additional design variations, the new Da Vinci Stone collection comes with the option of contrasting and complementary borders and design strips.

Offering a R10 slip rating, the complete Da Vinci collection will now feature 18 stone and 18 wood designs, all available with a recently extended lifetime commercial guarantee.

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Karndean Designflooring is introducing 11 new stone designs and five complementary borders to its popular Da Vinci collection. Bringing the natural beauty and intricate textures of real stone indoors, the distinct 12 x 18” tile designs take inspiration from weathered steel, natural stone and woven fabric and offer a fresh palette of colours to suit any commercial or residential interior.

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he three groups – weathered steel, natural stone and woven fabric – explore the latest trends in interior design including natural weathering, fossilisation and woven fabrics, and reflect Karndean’s unrivalled ability to take products from the natural world and recreate them in LVT. “Our product designers have captured new detailing and unique interpretations of real stone with LVT

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flooring designs that are easy to clean and enduring, without depleting natural resources,” explains Matthew Speck, Head of Commercial Sales at Karndean Designflooring.

He continues: “As well as offering a contemporary collection of stone designs to choose from, our new Da Vinci collection opens up a new specification, enabling us to offer our popular 12 x 18” tile with a 0.7mm wear layer and 3mm thickness.”

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Technical Focus

Villa Aalto in Hampshire has been sealed against the elements thanks to ISO-CHEMIE high-performance foam tapes

Is an airtight seal just an airtight seal?

Peter Thompson, General Manager of ISO-CHEMIE UK, provides an insight into the trade-off between airtightness and ventilation in sealing products.

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he legal requirement to consider airtightness in building designs has been around since the 2006 changes to UK Building Regulations. This is the same for every version of the regulations that apply to all regions of the UK, whether it be England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

The measurement for calculating air loss out of, or ingress into, a building is measured in cubic metres (m3), per hour (h), per square metre of building envelope (m2) and at a differential pressure of 50 Pascals (Pa) between internal and external air pressure.

The backstop maximum leakage is 10, equivalent to 10m3 (h.m2) at 50Pa. When designing to Passivhaus standards, this gets a little more complicated as they refer to airtightness as so many changes of air per hour. This relates more to the cubic capacity of the building or room, rather than the surface area of the envelope of the building. Notwithstanding this, to give some comparison, it is generally agreed that Passivhaus is looking for a goal of 0.6m3 (h.m2) at 50Pa, or less.

Initially, not too much notice was given to the requirement to have a maximum

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air leakage, as in reality an air loss of 10m3 (h.m2) at 50Pa could not really be called an airtight building, so the designs and detailing did not have to change radically to achieve it.

However, building standards have progressed with the requirement to conserve more and more energy. Although the legal backstop of 10 has not changed the target air leakage for SAP, separate target values set by the house-builders themselves have both significantly reduced.This helps to save heat loss out of the building, thus requiring less use of heating systems to maintain a comfortable temperature within the building, and in turn leading to greater energy efficiency and lowering CO2 emissions.

Build tight, vent right This brings us to the question about air quality within the building. The more airtight we make our buildings the less fresh air we get into them through random unwanted gaps within the building fabric.

Such problems can cause other issues for people with respiratory problems or young children, so proper ventilation is crucial.

‘Build tight, vent right’ has been a popular mantra relating to building design, particularly to those concerned with the ‘fabric first’ strategy, rather than just throwing ‘eco bling’ at a building design to achieve the relevant Standard Assessment Procedure credentials.

It is often argued that if by reducing air loss, you then need to build in designed ventilation, so why bother in the first place?

The answer, apart from the fact that legislation must be complied with, can be summed up in one word – control. It is the difference between controlled air loss, or ventilation, and uncontrolled air loss and draughts, which is the nub of the whole issue.

How is ‘Build tight, vent right’ achieved?

With regards to ventilation, this generally falls into two major camps – natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation. If you achieve an air loss of 3m3 (h.m2) at 50Pa or

Technical Focus less, then it is a necessity to use mechanical ventilation. With an air loss of more than 3m3 (h.m2) it is generally considered that well-designed natural ventilation is sufficient for most domestic dwellings.

For unwanted air loss, it is generally acknowledged that the air loss between the junctions of windows and doors to walls, walls to floors and walls to ceilings accounts for more than 50% of the air loss in a house. Other common factors of air loss relate to the fabric of the building itself and the various holes knocked through the fabric for an assortment of reasons such as drainage, heating flues, electrical cables etc.

There are many products on the market claiming to be airtight seals. But, the key is to use the correct products in the correct environment and the extent to which they degrade over time. In addition, if one of the major requirements of airtightness is to reduce heat loss out of the building, then thermal resistance to these air leak sources surely needs to be considered as well.

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When selecting a suitable airtight seal for this type of application, installers must consider several factors to assess if it is correct for the type of joint to be sealed, based on: The need to accommodate movement.

Any need to allow for conduction heat loss, to maintain the thermal integrity of the abutting materials.

The suitability of the active adhesive system for both initial application and long-term use on the substrate.

The potential for harmful emissions from the sealing materials and adhesives, and their effect on internal air quality must also be assessed.

An airtight seal therefore needs to be more than just an adhesive tape, but we have seen a bewildering range of options on the market. At first glance, they all look like they perform the same or a similar function. Whilst this is true to a certain extent, there are many performance variables meaning some products are more suited than others – in the same way as timber frame construction methods are all not identical or suitable for certain situations.

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Certainly just being airtight will reduce or stop heat loss by convection, but what about heat loss by conduction – often referred to as nonrepeating thermal bridges?

The industry is starting to understand that airtightness is only half the story for the sealants.This is why the thermal insulation of joints between windows, doors and walls is now included in the latest SAP calculations, where previously it had simply been ignored.

When choosing a suitable airtight seal, the full requirements necessary to create a long-term solution must be considered. If it is simply to seal the edges or overlaps of an internal airtight membrane, then movement and thermal insulation are unlikely to be major factors to consider as any number of various stick-on adhesive strip tapes are likely to be suitable.As there are technical differences between them, some specialist knowledge or advice is always helpful.

However, when sealing an actual construction joint between similar or different materials, it is a different story.An illustrative example is the movement between joints created by the junction of different construction materials, such as windows to walls or walls to roof etc. Even joints between the same materials can move, such as brick or concrete expansion joints.The initial drying out of the building must also be considered.

In this respect, the differential movement between timber frame buildings and the external masonry facades is well-researched and documented. But the different coefficient of expansion factors of different materials is less well-known.

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Specification Spotlight

Westbury windows have a minimum of 19mm deep inside traditional moulded profiles for a classic heritage appearance

British-made premier timber doors and windows Westbury Windows & Joinery is a UK-based specialist in timber windows and doors. From timber sash windows, timber casements and timber doors, the company produces made-toorder products for both new build and refurbishment projects.

Westbury Windows & Joinery at a glance Product/service areas: Timber windows, doors and roof lanterns Sectors: Timber windows, doors and roof lanterns, bespoke joinery, timber framed, glazed and semi-glazed buildings Founded: Westbury Windows & Joinery – 1992 Contacts: Website – www.westburyjoinery.com Phone – 01245 326510 General enquiries email – info@westburyjoinery.com

Super strong engineered wood components combined with a very specific Westbury manufacturing process create very strong joints and glazing systems

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retained heat inside.

In continental Europe, 68mm thick sash and door sections are ‘the norm’ for the same reason, with added benefits that deep triple glazing could be used without any changes in profiles.

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For example, north-facing windows could be triple glazed, whilst south-facing windows, facing a road, could be double glazed with acoustic material, but with the same appearance.

Beautiful and traditional deep moulded sashes, doors and glazing bars.

Westbury windows have a minimum of 19mm deep inside traditional moulded profiles for a classic heritage appearance complemented with putty line bars externally.

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The only timber window and door manufacturer in the UK to build products with a 115mm inside-tooutside depth of frame, and 68mm thick doors and sashes.

Fully certified PAS24 tested and Part Q Building Regulations compliant.

Super strong engineered wood components combined with a very specific Westbury manufacturing process creates very strong joints and glazing systems. This is enhanced with the use of only the best in hardware systems and stainless steel fixing components.

Westbury’s whole recipe has been finetuned and independently tested to PAS24 secure standard by a UKAS laboratory.

This confirms that Westbury products meet Part Q of Building Regulations and gives its customers peace of mind that its windows and doors are as secure as they can be.

Beautiful, traditional, deep moulded sashes, doors and glazing bars with a classic heritage appearance.

Fully certified PAS24 tested and Part Q compliant.

Extremely weather-resistant with double-welded continuous gaskets.

Whole product U-values as low as 1.0 W/m2K. Manufactured with responsibly sourced, engineered Accoya or larch.

By engineering its timbers, Westbury efficiently uses all its materials

This attention to detail is at the foremost in window and door technology and is further independently tested by a UKAS laboratory to prove Westbury products are of a high weather resistance.

Totally British-made and hand-finished.

10-year guarantee.

Whole product U-values as low as 1.0W/m2K. Westbury’s comprehensive design has been independently ‘whole product’ tested to British and European standards to prove excellent thermal performance with at least a 1.4W/m2K and as low as 1.0W/m2K. Manufactured with responsibly sourced engineered Accoya® or larch.

By engineering its timbers, Westbury efficiently uses all its materials whilst providing increased strength and a superior defect-free visual facing. Larch has been used for centuries and is a naturally durable timber, for example used in the piles that support Venice, whilst Accoya is a modified timber giving a very high durability only seen in hardwoods. By using these materials, Westbury avoids the use of unsustainable tropical timbers and can support its customers’ desire for environmentally responsible products.

Westbury timber products are unsurpassed in terms of performance and quality

Totally British-made and hand-finished with a 10-year guarantee.

Manufactured in Westbury’s Essex factory with highly efficient and competitive technology, skilled craftsmen and a final luxurious hand-finish, Westbury timber products are unsurpassed in terms of performance and quality and are guaranteed for up to 10 years.

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Extremely weather-resistant with double seals, fully-welded at corners with ‘soft close’ ability.

Westbury does not put only one weather seal in, but two seals to all opening casements and doors. Whilst virtually all manufacturers only cut and butt join seals at corners, Westbury fully welds all corners to create a continuous unbroken seal, like you would find in a car door for example.

Designed for double, triple and acoustic glazing options in same profiles.

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Specification Spotlight

Mixing innovative technology with traditional craftsmanship Templeton Walker has been building high-quality houses in the South West of England since 1985 and has used Westbury Windows & Joinery on its developments for almost 10 years.

Whilst occasionally built to a client’s brief, the majority of its houses are built speculatively and sold on the open market.

Templeton Walker uses Westbury for its projects due to the company’s attention to detail

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small company and family business, Templeton Walker sticks to building between three and six bespoke new builds each year, each one of an individual design rather than fixed format, systematically reproduced.

Director, Michael Gibb, explains: “We work with different architects, drawing on their strengths and specialities depending on what kind of project we’re working on. Often the architectural style of the build is dictated by its environment.Though all tend to be of a classical nature to achieve a certain quality of timelessness, we do try to follow the vernacular of the surroundings.We want our new builds to be sympathetic to their neighbourhood and look to their immediate context for inspiration.The neighbouring buildings to Vine Cottage were period properties with casement windows and so we followed suit.

“Depending on the location, our projects range from large, Georgian-style homes with grandeur, to modest, traditional cottages, or more contemporary 21st century homes. Working with local architects with indigenous knowledge means that we’re able to reach a design that suits both us and the community in which we are building.”

Once Templeton Walker has a set of working drawings to use, it project manages its builds in-house, specifying services from its favoured suppliers.

Michael Gibb explains: “We value our relationships, so once we have found somebody that is reliable and offers the type of product we like to use, we tend to stick with them. We don’t chop and change subcontractors for every job.

“We discovered Westbury after feeling dissatisfied with not being able to get a fully finished product from our local joiner.

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We tried out another large timber window manufacturer, but found that the finished article actually had a very plastic look. The impact of external windows and doors on a project is often underestimated and the finish quality is something we value a lot. We really wanted our timber windows to look like timber windows, and when we found Westbury that is exactly what we got.

“They’re a good fit for us because they share the same objectives in terms of combining classic, authentic design with high-performance technology.At Templeton Walker we are traditional builders using masonry, real plaster and concrete beams and block flooring to make a top-quality, solid building; but we also integrate the best of modern technology such as underfloor heating and home network systems.Westbury apply the same values to everything they build mixing innovative technology with traditional craftsmanship.We use them because of their attention to detail and their final finish quality.

“We also worked with sister company Westbury Garden Rooms when a house was bought off-plan and the client requested a conservatory to the rear of the house.

We considered other suppliers for that, but having already specified WWJ for the windows, no other product seemed to match up, so we advised the client to use them and she was incredibly pleased with the result.

“Westbury are so easy to deal with, they run an efficient and personalised service and, on the rare occasion that there are any snags, they have always gone the extra mile to rectify.

Over various projects we have specified sliding sashes, casements, French doors and windows, entrance doors and other bespoke joinery.Westbury have always delivered topquality service and products.”

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Specification Spotlight WESTBURY JOINERY HOLDS ITS OWN IN PAS24 TEST Westbury Windows & Joinery products recently passed PAS 24 British Standard tests in accordance with Part Q Security Regulations introduced last year.

The tests, which are conducted in a UKASapproved laboratory, involve a mechanical onslaught during which pistons, chains and a sandbag-style wrecking ball are used to strike and push and pull the product imitating a break in. Following that, a physical test ensues in which a person, armed with several tools, attempts to force entry, attacking any part or component of the product they choose including frames, locks and glass.

Westbury Director, John Mumford, explains: “This testing is tough and each product was vulnerable to up to seven hours of testing. I’m pleased to say all of our products passed.We spent a lot of time researching and the resulting attention to detail has played a significant part in enhancing security performance.

“Using layers of laminated wood for added strength, specially sourced screws and fastenings, a robust multi-point locking system and PAS24-approved cylinder locks, we have been able to build a superior product that the PAS24 tests are no match for.”

WESTBURY LAUNCHES BRAND NEW PRODUCT IN LONDON Westbury Windows & Joinery has launched a new range of windows and doors that focus on excellence in both form and function at The Building Centre and at its office and showroom in Lambeth.

Company Director, John Mumford, has spent two years researching the latest technologies and materials in order to design and manufacture a product with the quality credentials to satisfy both customers and construction legislation.

He explains: “We are driven by the desire to make windows that still look great

20 years down the line, so our focus has been to design this product to a standard, not a budget.

“We’ve combined technical features of continental design with British heritage aesthetics resulting in a range that looks traditional, but has fantastic high-tech specifications.”

Westbury’s new and improved windows and doors are designed for double, triple and acoustic glazing in the same profiles and are all available with traditional, deep moulded sashes, doors and glazing bars.

SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY Westbury is passionate that the use of tropical hardwood is no longer necessary and has set itself a goal to be completely hardwood-free by the end of 2016.

Director, John Mumford, explains: “Timber industry technologies have advanced to a point where there is little need to use unsustainable wood. However, the association people make between hardwood and durability, and softwood and poor quality still exists. We are committed not only to eradicating tropical hardwoods from our manufacturing processes, but replacing it with sustainable timber that is

just as good, or even better performing, in terms of durability and longevity. We are at a stage now where only a very small percentage of our business incorporates the use of tropical hardwood and we are making every effort to be completely tropical hardwood-free by the end of this year.”

Westbury is a conscious company that has been introducing efficiencies over the years to eliminate wastage and reduce its carbon footprint.

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Doors, Windows & Facades

Designed by Jestico + Whiles, the glass-fronted, five-storey National Graphene Institute unusually comprises two structurally-independent frames

Creating facades with personality Putting a unique stamp on the building envelope can be a challenge, particularly when the creative architectural vision can easily become diluted. Chris Oatridge, Group Business Development Director from building envelope contractor the Lakesmere Group, looks at how product innovation, technical expertise and supply chain collaboration is providing architects with even greater design flexibility to create bespoke facade solutions.

Here East features a unique digital frit pattern, comprising over eight million ceramic dots that cascade at different diagonal angles

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onveying a building’s sense of character and individuality is no easy feat. In many schools, hospitals and other public realm buildings, one way that this has traditionally been achieved is via the commissioning of a mural; unique artwork that harmonises with the architectural features and pays homage to the purpose or location of a building. Now, new technical advances in the design and delivery of cladding and glazing systems has helped to move this idea on to the next level by allowing designs to be added to the external envelope.

A fitting example is the National Graphene Institute, a state-of-the-art research facility commissioned by the University of Manchester to pioneer the wider understanding of the material graphene and its many uses. Designed by Jestico + Whiles, the glass-fronted, five-storey building unusually comprises two structurallyindependent frames and this design consideration was vital in order to minimise any vibrations that could interfere with the experimental work taking place within.

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Here East is the new digital cluster located in the heart of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

intimidating bulk of the building has been opened up through the use of a double glazed unitised curtain walling system to the south, west and east elevations.

Inspired by the ‘dazzle camouflage’ used on battleships during the World War, each of the 3000 glazed panels that make up the facade of Here East features a unique digital frit pattern, comprising over eight million ceramic dots that cascade at different diagonal angles.

Attention to detail was vital to ensure that the design would continuously flow across the facade, including around the corners of the building.The density and positioning of the ceramic dots also had to be checked in line with the specific solar gain requirements of the building, with the pattern being denser on

The envelope design of the building includes an ‘inner skin’ that has been created using a metallic silver cladding panel system and structural glazing systems

the west and south elevations to prevent glare from the sun and more sparse on the north side to maximise the use of natural light.

Working closely with supply chain partner and glazing manufacturer Press Glass, the frit pattern has been incorporated onto the glass through the use of an advanced Diptech laser printer using a process that has never been done on this scale before. Once printed, the pattern glass was supplied by Press Glass in the order in which the panels were to be installed, to save time and reduce the potential for errors.The unitised panels were then manufactured by McMullen Facades, the group’s specialist facade company, at our dedicated manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland.At its peak, McMullen was producing nine units per day and making three weekly deliveries to site.

The installation process, carried out by the Lakesmere South team, was akin to completing a giant jigsaw puzzle with each panel designed to interlock with each other.The necessary building tolerances were also calculated to ensure that the glazed facade performed as a structural part of the building’s envelope.

The success of creating bespoke building facades is as much down to the new advances in technology that is informing the way that companies, such as Lakesmere, approach design briefs as it is good, old fashioned supply chain collaboration. For the industry to really move forward however it is vital that the manufacturer is brought in at the earliest opportunity.Taking advantage of technology must be proactive and embraced at the earliest stage so that manufacturers and specialists such as Lakesmere can look to offer the most creative solutions to meeting design briefs and budgets.

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The envelope design of the building includes an ‘inner skin’ that has been created using a metallic silver cladding panel system and structural glazing systems.Wrapping around this inner envelope is a ‘veil’ of a striking polished black stainless steel perforated cladding package and it is this element that gives the building its unique, fluid appearance. One of the most challenging aspects of Lakesmere’s contract was the meticulously-planned installation of the black perforated stainless steel veil cladding, which features a visual representation of the equations relating to the properties and performance of graphene. Effective collaboration through the supply chain was vital here to ensure that each panel was carefully manufactured with differing patterns to allow the formula to be clearly seen.

With projects such as the National Graphene Institute setting the bar, there is much debate about whether bespoke facades are by their very nature ‘one-offs’ or if it is possible for building facades to go through the production line and still incorporate design intent.This is a challenge that we have actually already faced on a live job at Here East, the new digital cluster located in the heart of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Lakesmere was appointed by main contractor Laing O’Rourke to deliver the distinctive cladding package, that has been designed by leading architects Hawkins Brown, to transform the once windowless facade of what was the International Broadcast Centre for the London 2012 Games. As the biggest structure within the Olympic Park’s Media Complex, the

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Design & Desire The building provides a total of 187,000ft² of office space

Reaching new heights Construction contractors often face issues of proximity to buildings and infrastructures – but the £31m redevelopment of 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, presented them in abundance.

Extensive remodelling of the existing facade of the building has taken place

Fact File Project: 71 Queen Victoria Street Client: MHBC Business Unit: Construction London and South East Location: London Sector: Commercial Developments Architect: SPPARC Main Contractor: Bouygues UK Type of Work: Refurbishment

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he eight-storey office building sat in the heart of the busy City of London, almost directly above both an electricity substation and Mansion House Tube station. It was to require demolition of the building cores, new foundations and a new steel frame, as well as a complete internal refit. Any contractor bidding for the demolition, building and fit-out contract would have realised that this wouldn’t be simple, with both access challenges and proximity to existing infrastructure.

Bouygues UK won the contract in part because it had conceived a bold approach, which would allow it to shave three months off the timeline by installing temporary bracing to stabilise the structure, then running demolition and construction programmes simultaneously.

Delivering on this promise took extremely careful planning, but the resulting successful programme won Project Director, Ben Tominey, a gong in the New Build and Refurbishment £30-60m category at the Construction Manager of the Year Awards.

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Design & Desire Planning away risk The foundations for success were laid long before the team ever reached the site, said Ben: “For this project we were fortunate to have some time upfront, to work on it at our head office.We visualised the site and all our intentions, taking into account constraints such as its neighbours and city location.We had to consider the physicality of how to get around the site and deliver vast amounts of materials.

From this, we could create a series of drawings and plans and lastly use Asta Powerproject to turn it all into a physical plan of works.

“We took the time to appreciate the difficulties first – then spent time planning around those difficulties, and taking the risks away.”

The team realised upfront that the city location presented one glaring challenge: to erect the new steel frame would require a tower crane to hoist and position its sections, as well as to lift other materials around the site.

Unfortunately the site was so confined that this would be a huge headache.This large project would require significant deliveries – but the obvious delivery point on the road outside would mean closing the whole thoroughfare, with significant time and cost implications.

Ben conceived an innovative solution which wiped away many of these issues at a

A new dramatic, large-scale entrance and reception area leads to two atria and floors that have 360º glazing to all elevations

This significant project in the centre of the bustling city was considered to be one of the more complex construction schemes in London

stroke – although it took some convincing of both the client and his own management.

He comments: “I recalled a recent visit to a steelworks which used an overhead gantry crane to move large steels around and thought, why can’t we have one here?

Deliveries could then be driven directly off the road and into the building, through the main entrance. We could take the materials straight from the back of a lorry and hoist

them to where they were needed. And, because it was inside the building, we could install roofing and prevent rain coming into the building – which would have been inevitable with a tower crane.”

Bracing for changes Planning the sequence of works to install the temporary bracing, Ben used Asta Powerproject to capture his thinking and turn it into practical reality. “We had in mind how we would do this, planned it in drawing form and consulted with our structural professionals.Then we could develop a sequence for installation of temporary braces in Asta Powerproject and link it all up.This told the guys onsite exactly what to do and when. Software-based planning is critical, because it creates the exact parameters of what to do and when.”

Asta Powerproject helped Ben to keep a very tight rein on work onsite. “I physically manage works onsite – and I expect my team to spend the first part of the day doing the same.You can’t run a site from a desk.You need to see and understand what is going wrong in order to be in a position to do something about it, and manage the change, or you lose the day, which is why I keep Asta Powerproject constantly open on my laptop.

I was the sole owner – because one of the problems with any programme management software is that, when lots of people use it, they tend to break project links.”

Meeting deadlines With a large team of managers, each responsible for certain floors, Ben ran a strict schedule of daily, weekly and monthly meetings and briefings, using Asta Powerproject as a communications aid: “We would have

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Design & Desire the programme up on screen as well as in printout, so that everyone could see it, and could easily mark it up.We could then make careful changes using the baseline to work out where any activities needed to fit. It ran to 1200 individual items, each broken down into subsections.To simplify that for subcontractors.

We also exported data from Asta to our in-house Last Planner spreadsheet to show a simplified version of the plan that everyone could understand.”

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An overhead gantry crane was installed to move materials around the building

in transit or still in the warehouse – right down to the single light bulb and fuse – just to replan and recommission the work.”

With herculean effort, Ben then input all the new activity details into Asta Powerproject, to bring it back to plan – it took three weeks, but Bouygues UK didn’t lose a single day on the overall programme.

Critical planning On any complex build, all eyes are on the critical path – which means that you need to be able to see it very clearly. “Having programme management software is critical.

It gives you the logic to create a critical path, which no spreadsheet can do,” explains Ben. “On a complex job you must know exactly what the drop-dead critical items are and be

able to monitor them, in order to prepare for actions.”

He continues: “One of the great things about Asta Powerproject is the baseline function.You can have two programmes visible side by side, so on each line you can compare what has actually happened with the original plan. It lets you see exactly how each task has an effect on another task.You can also simply hit the reschedule button, to see the effect on the end date – then figure out what you need to do and change to get back to the original date. The software lets me go in and change a task to see the effect of allocating more resources, or having all the material arrive earlier.”

Floor-by-floor flexibility In such a complex build the planning software’s flexibility was really put to the test. Ben explains how this benefited him in directing work: “I particularly like that you can allocate resources and owners to each task. When I wanted to assign someone to the third floor of the building, I could do that, then give them a breakout programme just for their floor, often just a single page with just their own items showing. I could break it down as I wanted – by contractor, by floor level, or by discipline. Because it had all been properly allocated at the start, I could do a whole lot of different things quickly. To me, that’s one of Asta Powerproject’s best features.”

This project was certainly complex, but innovative thinking, value engineering, clear leadership and a tight focus on managing change and challenges led it to a highly successful conclusion, in which Asta Powerproject played a supporting role.

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As so often happens, the project faced one critical unforeseen problem when, just six months from completion, the MEP contractor went into administration. Having been responsible for the largest subcontractor package of all, activities suddenly ceased, leaving Bouygues UK with a major problem on its hands. Ben adds:“We had to do some very fast work – including re-engaging 35 of their own subcontractors and 45 individual suppliers.

We had to find alternatives in a few cases, as some smaller firms unfortunately went down too, and we directly employed some of the company’s management to keep as much continuity as we could.We effectively created our own M&E department.”

Re-planning the remainder of the programme was unavoidable, as Ben recounted: “We had to completely and utterly reschedule all the programme for the remainder of the build – but that wasn’t the biggest issue. We needed to take everything to pieces and compare it to the plan. We ran three major auditing activities, as we had to find out exactly where every single item was, what had been installed and what was

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Retail Build Focus

Opening up retail spaces Philip Jones, Technical Services Manager at sliding door hardware specialist P C Henderson, looks at the benefits of using multidirectional sliding door hardware when redeveloping existing retail spaces.

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ata from the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) has revealed a 0.8% fall in empty units year-on-year for the final quarter of 2015, due to increasing competition from multiple chains and international retailers. In addition, online retail sales in the UK grew 16.2% in 2015 and are expected to continue growing in 2016.The continued rise in online shopping and competition on the high street has led to traditional retailers considering other avenues to increase sales.

Building owners seeking to maximise rents and occupancy rates are increasingly renovating their retail properties in order to maximise profits. Recent research by Glenigan has shown a rise in remodelling and fit-out projects in the retail sector to meet the challenge faced by retailers of keeping and attracting new customers and to accommodate new services and offerings.

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Opening up shop fronts One way retailers are capturing the interest of potential customers is by creating open and inviting shop fronts that allow passers-by to clearly see the products and services available to them. For retail environments within covered shopping centres, sliding stacking walls can offer a highly practical solution as they completely open up retail spaces, removing the boundary between inside and outside, while also maximising the usable floor area.Where there is a cavity available, the sliding leaves can be stored discreetly, maintaining a clean look.

Sliding stacking wall applications can help meet the aesthetic, regulatory and practical elements required of a property. The benefits of these systems is that they provide straightforward access to entrants of all types and offer pedestrians a clear visual layout of the store. Multidirectional hardware systems with the ability to house timber and aluminium frames with toughened glass and frameless

Retail Build Focus

Building owners are now increasingly looking at innovative solutions to create adaptable areas when embarking on major refurbishment works

Sliding stacking walls can offer a highly practical solution as they completely open up retail spaces

Dividing retail space With retail space at a premium, building owners are now increasingly looking at innovative solutions to create adaptable areas when embarking on major refurbishment works. Options include dividing large retail areas into smaller plots to maximise rents and meet occupant demands for competitive pricing.

Sliding stacking systems can be a useful solution for such applications as they are extremely adaptable and can act as temporary walls, subject to demand. The systems can be used as room dividers to create flexible plots to meet the needs of pop-up shops, independents, start-ups and temporary stores whose rental budgets may be limited.

Multidirectional hardware systems are ideal as they give architects and designers the scope to create bespoke styles and openings

Specifying high-quality multidirectional sliding door hardware alongside insulated leaves for example, can provide retail spaces with privacy to fit individual business needs.

The benefits of these systems is that floor space can be expanded or contracted in an instant, meeting owner and occupier preferences. The best hardware systems have the capability to carry wood, aluminium and steel leaves with a variation of movement – 90 or 135°.

What to choose?

The best multidirectional hardware systems are made from quality components and tested for everyday use.They should offer high performance, versatility and be suitable for a multitude of installations offering different stacking configurations and door weight capacities.The systems should be top-hung, allowing for the floor area to be kept clean and free from trip hazards.

Sliding stacking walls allow each individual panel to slide on its own. This gives an added flexibility to larger apertures as the opening size can be changed depending on the types and quantity of users expected to enter and exit the space. When fully open, sliding stacking walls can also improve safety and security in retail environments as they allow staff and customers to clearly see any outside activity as there are no obstacles in view.

Choosing a manufacturer that can provide British engineered systems that are costefficient and combine high performance with aesthetic appeal is key. An experienced UKbased company with the design expertise to create bespoke solutions is favourable to architects and designers looking to meet the requirements of their clients as they can expect unrivalled service and support.

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From a regulatory standpoint, Building Regulations and legislation must also be considered when creating a new shop front.

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) stipulates accessibility to business premises for employees and customers with a disability as a statutory right.With a total annual disposable income of over £212b, there is a clear business case in meeting the needs of the estimated 11 million disabled people in Britain.

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Paints, Coatings & Finishes

Coatings designed to protect surfaces for extended periods of time offer a range of characteristics, such as high heat resistance

Don’t forget to put on a coat Peter Crossen, Vice President of the Maintenance and Partsmaster Innovation Platform at NCH Europe, explains how the right coating makes all the difference.

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ust as you wouldn’t weather a heavy downpour of rain in just a light jacket without a hood, it’s important to remember that not all corrosionpreventative coatings will be effective for every situation. Selecting the right coating for specific applications requires careful deliberation of conditions the surface will be subject to, as well as the reasons for coating the product in the first place.

For example, a business that keeps its storage tanks outside must account for both the substance stored within the tank – often a liquid, which itself accelerates corrosion – and the weather that the tank will be subjected to. Instances such as this call for

a permanent coating that can provide longstanding protection.

The benefits of a permanent coating are more than just longevity. Coatings designed to protect surfaces for extended periods of time offer a range of characteristics, such as high heat resistance to protect under extreme temperatures without sagging, supporting the strenuous demands of certain industries and environments.

If a particular surface is especially prone to rust and the ongoing process of treating and protecting is becoming a costly cycle, it may even be advisable to consider an all-in-one product. An encapsulating rust treatment solution offers a quicker and

Don’t judge a product by its name However, while the name may make it sound like the perfect solution, a permanent coating is not necessarily the best option for everyone.

Large mechanical parts that are being shipped globally, for example, won’t benefit fully from a permanent coating. A much more cost-effective solution in this situation to protecting parts in transit is to apply a temporary coating.

Temporary coatings, as the name suggests, are protective products that offer a sufficient defence against corrosion for a short period, often used by manufacturers to protect metal parts during transportation.They are usually oil-based so that engineers can apply a degreaser to easily remove them upon arrival.

At NCH Europe, one of the biggest problems we find during surveys is that temporary coating products are underutilised by maintenance engineers. As a result, equipment or materials in storage are often placed there without sufficient protection. When the time comes to use that equipment again, rust has taken hold.

By simply applying a temporary coating first, engineers can extend the storage life of equipment or materials by months, even years, and spare themselves the cost of unexpected replacement.

Both permanent and temporary coatings have a role to play in the prevention of rust to enable a comprehensive approach to rust management. By knowing when to appropriately use each type of protection, engineers can keep their assets safe from the elements no matter what the application.

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If a particular surface is especially prone to rust, it may even be advisable to consider an all-in-one product

more cost-effective approach by converting existing rust into a barrier, which then defends against further corrosion.

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Sustainability

The £42m building’s environmental and biodiverse credentials were essential to its construction

Medical school taken to low-energy highs The University of Leicester’s new Centre for Medicine is the largest non-residential project in the UK to be built to Passive House standards. Leading roofing and waterproofing contractor, BriggsAmasco, provided the building’s insulated waterproofing, green and brown roof systems.

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he insulation has not only eliminated the long-term risk of water ingress, the environmentallyfriendly roofs have added a unique aesthetic to the structure, helping ensure its superb thermal performance.

With more than 150 years of roofing expertise to call upon, BriggsAmasco was specified by the project’s main contractor, Willmott Dixon, to provide a robust, insulated waterproofing system for a 3600m2 area of roofing at the Centre for Medicine.

BriggsAmasco used the highest quality technical products to provide the centre’s watertight roof

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The £42m building’s environmental and biodiverse credentials were essential to its construction, hence the requirement of green and brown roofs.

The work had to be completed to the university’s strict deadline in order for the building to be ready for its first intake of students in September 2016.

Ensuring construction was carried out in a ‘live environment’ with no interruption to university life elsewhere on the campus presented a further challenge to BriggsAmasco’s onsite teams.

Premium products As with all its projects, BriggsAmasco used the highest quality technical products to provide the centre’s watertight roof.To avoid cold bridging and improve the building’s overall thermal performance required the application of inverted and warm roof construction.To achieve this without compromising on quality or performance, BriggsAmasco installed a durable roofing system featuring PermaTEC Hot Melt.

This system, proven for more than 50 years, has numerous benefits including excellent life expectancy and simple, rapid installation.

BriggsAmasco applied the PermaTEC Hot Melt directly onto the building’s concrete roofing substrate. Insulation – supplied by Jablite – was then installed.

For the inverted roof, the main insulation material was applied on top of the weatherproof covering to ensure the complete roof construction, including covering, remained warm during winter months and ambient throughout the summer. To plant room areas, the company utilised metal deck IKO SA vapour barrier,

Sustainability 180mm Enertherm and Armourplan single ply membrane. Solar photovoltaic panels were also installed on the roof.

Creature comfort Designed to provide a natural habitat for a number of species, BriggsAmasco installed a green roof and two brown roofs, each fitted with fully-insulated cappings to all parapets. Hoppers and downpipes were also installed. The roofs, along with a green wall, will have a planting regime specifically designed to attract insects and birds which will aid pollination. External planting will also help reduce the overall temperature of the building and minimise rainwater runoff.

A vital component of the building’s overall performance, BriggsAmasco’s high-tech, high-quality roofing system helped the building achieve 0.6 air changes per hour, the Passive House standard for airtightness. Its superb thermal performance has resulted in the building’s energy consumption being cut from 500kWh/m² to 80kWh/m². Paul Nesbitt, Operations Manager at Willmott Dixon, said: “The centre’s ‘super levels’ of insulation meant it was ten times more energy-efficient than a normal building.”

Stunning transformation

blocks comprising five and six storeys to maximise the use of natural daylighting.

Professor David Wynford-Thomas, Dean of the School of Medicine and Head of the College of Medicine, said: “This new centre will give Leicester medical students probably the most advanced environment and facilities in which to study medicine in the UK.”

Centre of excellence The University of Leicester’s Medical School was formed following the publication of a report by the Royal commission on Medical Education in 1968.

The Commission estimated that by 1994 the UK would need to train more than 4500 doctors per year which would be achieved by increasing numbers of medical students at existing medical schools and establishing a number of new medical schools. It recommended the creation of new medical schools at the universities of Nottingham, Southampton and Leicester.

In 2012, it was announced Leicester Medical School was to be rebuilt.

Construction work on the Centre for Medicine began in 2013 and took more than two years to complete. The centre is being funded by £32m from resources and a £10m public appeal as part of an ambitious fundraising campaign. Having thanked “committed and philanthropic” benefactors for generously backing the appeal, the university’s Director of Development, Steve O’Connor, added: “The centre will help to meet the local demand for more capable and caring doctors and house applied research that will be in the vanguard of improved patient safety and the fight against chronic disease.”

Team effort Users from the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology were heavily involved in the design of the building, and through a soft landing process, helped ensure a smooth transition from construction to occupation. A university spokesman said the centre will help attract the best students who will pay £9000 fees to attend. Dave Vernon, Project Manager at the University of Leicester, said the project will help eradicate preconceptions about the relevance and practicality surrounding low-energy construction.

He said: “Many of the myths surrounding Passive House buildings have been dispelled and users are now energised and excited about the imminent move.”

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The Centre for Medicine is designed to bring together the university’s leading academics, researchers, clinicians and students. It will provide 12,000m2 of teaching rooms, offices, lecture theatres, dry lab research facilities and support spaces for more than 2350 staff and students. Designed

by Associated Architects, its purpose is to completely transform medical teaching and improve the lives of patients in the region and beyond. The campus features two tower

BriggsAmasco’s high-tech, high-quality roofing system helped the building achieve 0.6 air changes per hour

The campus features two tower blocks comprising five and six storeys to maximise the use of natural daylighting

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Floors, Walls & Ceilings

Allowing the room to be divided at the press of a button, each of the four Skyfold partitions unfolds majestically from its housing in the ceiling cavity

Divide and multiply in style Part of the UK’s first Resorts World complex in Birmingham, the Vox is a brand new, first-class conference and banqueting facility that offers exceptional amenities in a very unique location.

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Working with interior designers, Monteith Scott of Birmingham, and contractor, Overbury (part of the Morgan Sindall Group), Style was specified to deliver a moveable wall configuration that offered outstanding versatility within the five, purpose-built suites at the Vox. “We have combined key feature wall cladding, softened finishes and enhanced lighting to give it a sophisticated, hotel ambience,” explains Monteith Scott Design Director, Derek Matthews.“Style’s moveable walls are a crucial and integral part of the design, helping to create a uniquely vibrant space that remains intensely functional.”

Allowing the room to be divided at the press of a button, each of the four Skyfold partitions unfolds majestically from its housing in the ceiling cavity to create an outstandingly solid dividing wall. Fully automatic, these unique partitions require no floor space when not in use, completely freeing up valuable room for the functions. Space is further maximised

with organisers having the flexibility to quickly create smaller breakout rooms during their event, as required.

The acoustic specification required the Skyfold walls to not only achieve a high-level of sound reduction, but also help control sound reverberation.To achieve this, the top seven panels of each Skyfold was fitted with sound absorptive, perforated face sheets covered with a stretch fabric finish.The lower two panels feature a high pressure laminate, perfectly complementing the contemporary interior decor.The resulting moveable walls deliver outstanding acoustic performance, offering excellent privacy between divided spaces.

The two DORMA Variflex systems have an acoustic rating of 57dB Rw and incorporate four sets of double doors in a ‘T’ configuration, giving easy access to all areas.The Variflex panels park neatly within two stacking zones at each end of the conference space, with an attractive laminate finish on the main elevations.“This system was recommended due to the design flexibility it allows,” explains Mike Fine, Style’s Director for the Midlands.

“A Variflex moveable wall can be adapted to suit most locations with a wide selection of parking arrangements, tracking options as well as an almost limitless selection of finishes to enhance any interior.

“We were delighted to have been chosen for the largest moveable wall installation of this type in 2015,” confirms Fine.“Such was the magnitude of the project, the walls were transferred to the opening of the Vox by crane.”

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llowing the space to be easily reconfigured to meet each client’s requirements for the size of their event, Style designed and installed a complex configuration of technologicallyadvanced moveable wall systems, allowing a seamless setup and breakdown of event spaces, ensuring the space is maximised every single day.

The final solution spans across rooms up to 30m wide and 5m high and required four of Style’s revolutionary Skyfold vertical-rising partitions, as well as two impressive DORMA sliding walls.

Resorts World Birmingham is an integrated leisure and entertainment development. At the very core of the site, the Vox conference and banqueting centre, which is owned by the NEC Group, is perfectly located for easy access from across the UK whilst also being surrounded by 18 stylish bars and restaurants, 50 outlet stores as well as an 11-screen cinema, casino, boutique hotel and luxurious spa.

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Kitchens, Bathrooms & Washrooms

This approach to off-site allows an entire run of washrooms to be built in full in the factory ahead of installation on site

Thinking outside the box Time is almost always of the essence when it comes to construction and for the vast majority of projects even the slightest of delays can prove costly for contractors, subcontractors and clients alike. Trevor Bowers, Director at washroom manufacturer and installer Washroom Washroom, explains how off-site construction can provide the perfect solution to the problem.

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ontractors like Washroom are under increasing pressure to deliver projects to ever shorter deadlines, with virtually no margin allowed.Any delay, no matter how small, can have a knock-on effect on the project as a whole and the cost to clients as a result can be huge.Working to condensed timeframes also means that various different trades are now more likely to be required to work simultaneously around each other onsite, adding to the pressure and increasing the chance of mistakes being made.

In this environment of increased time constraints and crowded construction sites, contractors are eager to put new methods of construction to the test or adapt methods such as off-site to different applications.

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Off-site manufacturing has long been acknowledged as a preferred solution for projects where volumetric modules form a large part of the overall construction, such as new build schools and hotels, for example. Traditionally, off-site involves manufacturing a series of complete prefabricated modules which are then transported to site and pieced together like a giant puzzle. Although cost-effective where a large quantity of identical modules are required, this traditional module building method doesn’t allow much scope for individuality of design, which is what led Washroom to adapt off-site construction to work as effectively on a smaller scale and at the same time, allow for more bespoke designs.

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The off-site washrooms are designed to be as complete as possible so are preplumbed and ready for installation

Kitchens, Bathrooms & Washrooms

The demand for exceptionally high-quality materials and finishes has rocketed, especially in the office sector

Off-site enables the team to take time building the washrooms away from the pressures of an overcrowded, busy construction site

without risking delay to the project overall.

While considerably quicker and more efficient, off-site manufacture doesn’t mean there’s any need to compromise on quality or uniqueness. Each washroom can still be individually manufactured so that bespoke elements can easily be incorporated into a design to suit a client’s needs.

Once complete, the washrooms are deconstructed and stored ready to transport to site exactly when required before being rebuilt in place onsite as planned. The off-site washrooms are designed to be as complete as possible so are pre-plumbed and ready for installation, which saves time when it comes to the onsite installation process.

Installing cubicles and vanity units into place, having being fully constructed previously in the factory, requires a fraction of the time on site. This leaves the way clear for other trades to work, reducing the risk of costly delays. The reduced installation time and smoother delivery process also makes off-site an ideal solution for international projects.

As well as affording contractors more time to work away from the pressures on site, meaning there’s less chance for

mistakes to be made and issues to arise, off-site also removes pressure with less trades needed on site at any one time and enables the team to take time building the washrooms away from the pressures of an overcrowded, busy construction site.

Off-site construction also boasts environmental benefits with the opportunity to significantly reduce onsite waste when compared to traditional methods of construction.

In recent years, the demand for exceptionally high-quality materials and finishes has rocketed, especially in the office sector and particularly in London and overseas. When dealing with expensive, high-quality materials, there is no room for error as the finish has to be flawless to match the quality of the materials used.

Not only that, but any damage can result in further delays as more unusual materials can often be difficult to source.

Off-site methods such as this allow installers the flexibility to work away from the confines of a busy construction site, preventing any avoidable mistakes and reducing the risk of costly delays.

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Off-site ultimately provides a more efficient way of working, especially on an overcrowded construction site and can be applied just as easily to new builds or refurbishments and is ideal for projects which involve working in a live environment, when it’s simply not viable to vacate the whole building.

This approach to off-site allows an entire run of washrooms to be built in full in the factory ahead of installation on site. These full-scale washrooms are built to the exact site measurements and even take into consideration the placement of existing windows, doors and lighting and so on to create an accurate representation of the finished space. On a recently completed off-site project, a photo was taken looking out of the existing toilet window and this image was then blown-up to the exact size of the window and included in the full-scale factory washroom set, allowing the client the opportunity to view the washroom as close to how it would look when installed on site as possible.

This is another advantage of off-site construction, that clients can take the opportunity to view the washrooms for themselves exactly as they would be on site, but several weeks ahead of the site installation and without disrupting progress on site. This means that any changes or design alterations can be made at this stage

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CPD Focus

Armstrong Ceilings performs a health check CPD Information on the market drivers and impact of building design and construction on occupant health, wellbeing and productivity are contained in a new RIBAapproved CPD from Armstrong Ceilings.The ‘Health,Wellbeing and Productivity’ CPD meets the RIBA CPD core curriculum subjects of designing and building it (design, construction, technology and engineering) on a general awareness knowledge level. Designed to explain how to integrate user-centered interior design to positively impact the health, wellbeing and productivity of occupants, the CPD presents the cost to major economies of not getting it right, with acoustics being a major bugbear alongside lighting, air quality, temperature and decor. * sales-support@armstrong.com

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CPDs to enhance fire and smoke curtain knowledge Coopers Fire is a leading manufacturer of fire and smoke curtains and offers CPD seminars on Smoke Barriers, Fire Curtain Barrier Assemblies and BS 8524 Parts 1 & 2, plus

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a combination of all three. Its CPD seminars help to educate architects, building control officers, approved inspectors, fire engineers and Fire & Rescue Services with a greater understanding of smoke and fire curtain barriers, their application and the governing standards that regulate their use. Coopers Fire is the only fire and smoke curtain manufacturer approved by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to provide CPD educational seminars. * info@coopersfire.com

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Learn more about the landscaping of roofs

ZinCo, as one of the global market leaders, supplies stateof-the-art system solutions for the landscaping of roofs and urban structures. The ZinCo CPD seminar provides a detailed overview of the wide range of system solutions to suit different types of roofs and to create any hard and soft landscape on roofs and urban surfaces – from simple, extensive green roofs to the most sophisticated designs, including paving solutions for walkways and driveways on urban structures. The CPD gives architects and planners a better understanding of how landscapes on roofs and urban structures work and what aspects have to be considered in the planning process. * office@zinco-greenroof.co.uk

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Break with the confines of convention with Arturo Unique Flooring A unique floor can determine the atmosphere of a room. Arturo offers a wide range of resin floors and pushes the boundaries of what a floor can do. Arturo is now providing a CPD and is part of the RIBA CPD Providers Network, delivering free CPD seminars to clients at their offices.The seminar ‘Exploring the Design Possibilities of Resin Flooring’ provides a detailed overview of what can now be done with resin flooring. Find out about resin flooring and discover the benefits, discover the interior design potential, look at bespoke designs, concrete looks, flake effects and graphic encapsulation and explore best practice and how to reduce risk. * info@uzin.co.uk

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DuPont Tyvek accredited CPDs

DuPont Tyvek and DuPont AirGuard building membranes have been used in construction for many years and offer proven performance and reliability.

However, there can sometimes be some confusion as to how and where they should be applied.The kind of questions Tyvek’s technical

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department often hear are: Do I need to ventilate the roof and do they comply with Building Regulations? Are counter battens required? Are they BBA-certified?

These are all reasonable questions, but also easily answered, especially with a CPD service accredited presentation from DuPont.

DuPont Tyvek and AirGuard CPD service accredited CPD modules include: Roof, wall and AVCL, roof and AVCL, wall and AVCL and VCL. * julie.roberts@dupont.com

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Designing quiet bathrooms – new RIBA-approved CPD from Geberit

Bathroom noises caused by sanitaryware and behind the scenes pipework can be an issue in multiple floored buildings.To help architects, specifiers and M&E contractors understand and combat this problem, Geberit has launched a new RIBA-approved CPD, ‘Embedding Acoustics into Design’. Providing a technical insight and definition of ‘noise’ and its causes, the CPD covers current British standards relating to limiting bathroom sound, plus Geberit’s thorough approach to noise reduction; which starts with good design and ends with appropriate product choices and correct installation techniques.

Backed up by Geberit’s UK installation techniques and research, Embedding Acoustics into Design provides a guide to creating quiet British bathrooms. * enquiries@geberit.co.uk

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CPD Focus

Polyflor refreshes vinyl flooring CPD offering

Safety first for new CPD seminar

Polyflor has announced the launch of three new CPD seminars approved by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Society of British and International Design (SBID).The three informative seminars on the subject of specifying vinyl flooring can be delivered by Polyflor representatives throughout the UK free of charge. Polyflor’s CPD offering includes updated sessions on the Specification of Vinyl Floorcoverings, Specification of Safety Vinyl Floorcoverings and a new seminar – the Specification of Dementia-Friendly Flooring.The hour-long SBID and RIBA-approved CPD seminars cover the different types of vinyl floorcoverings and their applications, relevant industry standards, installation and maintenance.

GEZE UK has launched a RIBA-approved CPD seminar focusing on the importance of fire safety on manual doors. ‘Specifying, Installing and Maintaining Ironmongery for Fire Doors’ defines what fire doors are, identifies various components, how they work, why smoke is so dangerous and the standards and regulations which surround them. The seminar is intended for chartered members of RIBA, but is also suitable for facilities managers, property managers and architectural ironmongers. The subject is part of the core curriculum for RIBA and is included within two of its 10 subject areas – being safe: health and safety and designing and building it: design, construction, technology and engineering.

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Karl Stauss, Sales Manager at AET Flexible Space, is taking architects and consultants on his tailor-made CPD journey:The Flexible Space Road Map. AET has supplied underfloor air conditioning both in the UK and worldwide for over 20 years and is a leading authority on this unique air conditioning concept, which uses the plenum beneath a raised access floor as the ventilation zone.

Many designers and engineers are unfamiliar with underfloor systems and there is a tendency to specify familiar systems rather than taking the risk of adopting something new.This CPD is tailored to encourage designers to think differently when specifying air conditioning. * lucy@flexiblespace.com

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AET’s CPD encourages designers to ‘think outside the box’

The durable choice

Long-standing preservative performance

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Doors, Windows & Facades

The systems have been awarded the British Standard Kitemark which includes testing to BS6375 Parts 1, 2 and 3, Performance of Windows and Doors

Optima: beauty lies within the ‘best’ window system Hailed as the biggest new product introduction in the window industry for a decade, Profile 22 has unveiled Optima, developed to be the most advanced products available in the UK today.

The name, Optima, is derived from the Latin word ‘optimus’ – meaning ‘best’. Profile 22 has launched not one, but two of the industry’s most eagerly awaited window and door systems.

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eveloped with commercial sectors in mind, and backed by the Profile 22 Approved Window Contractors scheme, Optima offers a compelling choice for professional specifiers. Behind this launch is a radical rethink of each of the key processes in the production of a window and door

system for the 21st century: extrusion processes that ensure superb quality and consistency and products that easily satisfy current technical and aesthetic demands by anticipating those of many years ahead.

The two product streams are characterised by the Optima Chamfered system and the Optima Sculptured system,

The system is designed with a highperformance centre seal option for improved weather and thermal performance

from which a large number of options are available including a brand new flush casement to compete in the burgeoning heritage flush sash timber replacement sector.

In basis, the systems offer a six-chamber outer frame (up to eight with RCM inserts) and a five-chamber sash (six with RCM), structures that provide optimal thermal performance and rigidity with the capability of U-values as low as 0.8 W/m2K with appropriate argon-filled IGUs. Important niche products, such as a fully reversible window, a vertical sliding sash, flush tilt and turn, a flush casement, composite doors, French doorsets and a patio door, may be manufactured by combining existing profiles with the Optima suite. Performance is to A++ Window Energy Rating.

The Profile 22 system that Optima replaces enjoyed huge popularity for its aesthetics and Optima retains a close similarity, but with a larger rebate and stylish slim upstand.The distinctiveness enjoyed by Profile 22 over other systems will therefore continue.

The real difference however is in the details; the system is designed with a high-performance centre seal option for improved weather and thermal performance, features that are unique to Optima amongst UK systems – deeper drainage channels further improve water egress and contribute towards weather performance.

Optima has been designed to offer the widest choice of glazing options on the market including 24 and 28mm double and 36, 40 and 44mm triple glazed units. Bead location has been fully researched with the result that glazing clips are unnecessary to pass security tests and are futureproof against proposed and anticipated enhancements to PAS24.

The systems have been awarded the British Standard Kitemark which includes testing to BS6375 Parts 1, 2 and 3, Performance of Windows and Doors in addition to testing in relation to PAS24:2016 Enhanced Security Performance requirements for doorsets and windows in the UK. Both standards are the latest to be published and allow specifiers to assess Optima against the most exacting UK standards currently available.

Products are also manufactured under Environmental and Health & Safety standards BS EN ISO 14001 and BS EN ISO 18001 respectively and BES6001 to ensure Responsible Sourcing of Construction Products.

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Our strongest drive: GEZE Powerturn The automatic Powerturn swing door drive ensures safety and comfort; for everyone and in every building. It offers power for especially large and heavy doors. Due to the unique Smart swing function, these can be opened manually without using much force. That makes the 7-cm drive a fine example for Universal Design - made in Germany.

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BEWEGUNG MIT SYSTEM

Doors, Windows & Facades

The doors are powered by GEZE’s Slimdrive SCR drive which has an operating height of just 7cm, making the installation almost invisible and enhancing the all-glass effect

GEZE UK creates uplifting entrance for spitfire-shaped building The Wing, a building designed to echo the shape and uplift of a spitfire’s wings, features an expansive curved glass viewing platform on the first floor. It needed an entrance that would reflect the style of the building and GEZE UK was top of the list.

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o echo the lines of the viewing platform, GEZE installed two of its popular Slimdrive SCR all-glass circular lobbies to create two impressive entrances to the Wing, which houses a new visitor and education centre

for the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust at Capel-le-Ferne, Kent.

Situated on top of the white cliffs, between Dover and Folkestone, the award-winning building is truly open to the elements. It was therefore important to choose the right

Each circular lobby features two sets of automatic, bi-parting, curved sliding glass doors to create an accessible, draught-free entrance

automatic door system because prevailing winds can affect the operation of some doors. Furthermore, the creation of a lobby helps to limit heat loss, contributing to a building’s environmental credentials, and prevents blasts of hot or cold air which are uncomfortable for staff and visitors.

Each circular lobby features two sets of automatic, bi-parting, curved sliding glass doors to create an accessible, draughtfree entrance. The doors are powered by GEZE’s Slimdrive SCR drive which has an operating height of just 7cm, making the installation almost invisible and enhancing the all-glass effect. Installing curved doors can increase the size of the entrance by up to 40% compared to sliding doors, making them ideal for lobbies that experience high levels of footfall.

The Wing is home to The Scramble Experience, a hands-on attraction that allows visitors to learn more about what it was like for ‘the few’ during the summer and early autumn of 1940. It has already received more than 55,000 visitors since it was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, in March 2015.

“The Wing is an eye-catching, highquality building that was designed to make a statement while at the same time respecting its surroundings and not detracting from the memorial itself. The trust is delighted with the design, the quality of the building and the reaction from visitors,” said Battle of Britain Memorial Trust’s Richard Hunting CBE. Andy Howland, Sales Director of GEZE UK, said: “It’s often said that a building’s design is unique, but in the case of the Wing, which has been designed to remind visitors of WWII’s most iconic aircraft, the spitfire, it truly is.

“We are always delighted to have the opportunity to work on such high-profile projects and the Wing is no exception. The circular lobby, created by the Slimdrive SCR, reflects the cockpit-style viewing platform and has been designed to allow the building’s many visitors to enter quickly and easily.”

The Slimdrive SCR is simple to operate, and like all of GEZE’s Slimdrive range, it has been designed and tested to meet the requirements of all relevant standards and regulations, including Building Bulletin 93, Approved Documents B and M. It also assists with the vigorous demands of the Equality Act. 8 www.geze.co.uk * info.uk@geze.com ( 01543

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Doors, Windows & Facades REHAU Passivhaus products chosen for social housing project REHAU’s expertise in the Passivhaus sector has been demonstrated with an installation of windows and doors in one of the UK’s first Passivhauscertified social housing projects. REHAU GENEO tilt and turn windows, French doors and the new AGILA Passivhaus entrance door were all fabricated by Passivhaus specialist GRM Innovations for the Sarisbury Green development.This is the first installation of the AGILA Passivhaus entrance door. It achieves a Ud value of just 0.7 W/m²K, and comes preglazed with high security hardware pre-fitted. REHAU’s GENEO windows were also installed. Manufactured using REHAU’s RAUFIPRO fibre composite material, they achieve Uw values as low as 0.73W/m²K. * irene.smith@rehau.com

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Animation shows the secret of REHAU Polytec 50 curtain walling REHAU has posted an animation on its YouTube channel to show specifiers that while its Polytec composite curtain walling system might look just like aluminium systems from the outside, its real secret lies underneath. The animation literally lifts the aluminium exterior off the curtain walling to reveal the steel sections which are at the core of the system and the PVC-U which is on the inside. It explains the structural benefits which come with using steel, which is up to three times stronger than aluminium sections with the same geometry, and the fact that the PVC-U interior is low-maintenance, warm to the touch and available in any RAL colour. * irene.smith@rehau.com

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Advanced manufacturing in Sheffield

Factory 2050, a new Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield, comprises a main rotunda building and an adjoining rectangular building. Levolux was approached to develop a passive solar shading solution for both buildings.The solution comprises oval-shaped aluminium louvres, arranged horizontally between vertical aluminium carriers.The tubular louvres, which are vertically stacked with a pitch of 200mm, have been customengineered to suit the shape of each building.

To accommodate the main rotunda building’s circular form, each louvre has been carefully curved. 20 rows of louvres run around the perimeter of the building at a high-level, accentuating the building’s unusual shape.

8 www.levolux.com * info@levolux.com (0208 863 9111

TORMAX automates glass arch access GLASSOLUTIONS creates ideal learning environment GLASSOLUTIONS has played a key role in creating an optimal learning environment for students at Alford Academy’s Community Campus in Aberdeenshire. GLASSOLUTIONS manufactured and installed an attractive curtain walling system, choosing glazing products to create a space with excellent temperature control, effective ventilation and natural light. GLASSOLUTIONS selected Metal Technology’s System 17 High Rise curtain walling system to form the building’s envelope.With a continuous thermal isolator providing a thermal break throughout, paired with thermally broken casement windows from Metal Technology’s System 4-20 range, the low U-value of this configuration provides excellent thermal efficiency, maintaining a comfortable temperature for students.

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Delivering invisible automation to an arched glass doorway, TORMAX was contracted to install its iMotion 1401 operator into the entrance to the Porter’s Lodge, Christ Church at Oxford University.The iMotion 1401 makes it possible to benefit from the convenience of an automatic entrance, without interfering with a historic facade.The new door enhances the aesthetics of the building whilst being a practical solution. iMotion door operators are recognised for their exceptional life expectancy.This is due to the fact that their high torque motors do not feature any parts that generally wear out, such as gears and brushes.This improves long-term reliability, dramatically reducing maintenance. * sales@tormax.co.uk

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New, fresh and mobile compatible website launched by Vicaima

Vicaima has strengthened its communication strategy and user interface for all market sectors with a complete renovation of its online presence. With the launch of a new and mobile compatible website,Vicaima now combines simplicity, accessibility and innovative design in a platform resource wherever and whenever needed. The new Vicaima website presents simple, intuitive and pictorial navigation to enable customers and specifiers easy access to a wealth of information and inspiration. With product facts, latest innovations, digital catalogues and technical advice sitting alongside corporate data and even recruitment opportunities for those wishing to be part of such a modern and vibrant organisation. * info@vicaima.com

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Mumford & Wood windows and doors complement nautical new build Conservation timber windows and doors by Mumford & Wood have been specified by Thomas Croft Architects for a new build private home on the idyllic North Norfolk coast. The property has been designed in a traditional style reflecting the local vernacular of the area with the use of flint, local red brick and clay pantiles.

“The quality of the traditional timber sash and casement windows used for this building were very important,” says Helen Fife, of Thomas Croft Architects.“Externally, they contribute to the appearance of the building in its prominent location and, from inside, each window acts as a frame to different views.”

A combination of double glazed Conservation Georgian-style timber sash windows teamed with coordinating casement windows and French doorsets have been installed into deep reveals to aid protection and shelter from the elements and to

accommodate external sea defence steel panels.The front facade, featuring Conservation box sash windows operated by traditional cords and weights, is designed with a friendly, familiar appeal; similar to the neighbouring fisherman and workers’ cottages.

The middle floor kitchen-cum-day-room, facing the harbour, features a large dual colour bay window created using a combination of four Conservation box sash windows.

Above the bay in a top floor bedroom two special shape Conservation bullseye timber windows act as binoculars to the seascape

and are finished with a surrounding brick soldier course. In the master bedroom feature windows include a small square Conservation casement and a further bullseye.The media room features large pane Conservation Georgian French doorsets providing access to external staircases.

8 www.mumfordwood.com * sales@mumfordwood.com ( 01621 818155

Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems completes Seaford Library complex AluK systems help future-proof Welsh school The Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools Programme aims to deliver effective learning environments and develop best practice in school design.AluK systems were specified for Ysgol Maes Y Gwendraeth’s new Design and Technology building, designed by Lawray Architects.The team of architects were looking for a slender selection of profiles that would complement the expanse of brickwork. In total, approximately 340m2 of aluminium profiles was used, with 105m2 used in the AluK SL52 curtain walling system, 215m2 for the AluK top-hung 58BW window systems, as well as 20m2 in the AluK single GT55 TB door systems.

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This multimillion pound project is part of the Sutton Park Road development for East Sussex County Council and Saxon Weald Homes. This mixed-use project was completed using Comar 5P.i Tilt & Turn windows, Comar 6EFT curtain walling, Comar 7 folding sliding doors and Comar 7P.i CD doors in both pivot and sliding configurations. The architect’s design vision was to create a continuous wall of glass to the library’s ground floor facade. With this in mind, and to ensure the design brief could be achieved, Comar 6EFT was selected as it offers architects a flexible system, providing a structurally glazed solution. * projects@parksidegroup.co.uk

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New Cooke Brothers hinge offers sleek adjustability

Cooke Brothers has launched a new three-way adjustable concealed hinge – the latest addition to its Pivota range. The Pivota DX 30 3-D allows specifiers to achieve sleek, minimalist designs on flush doors up to 40kg with full adjustability for easy, accurate installation. The Pivota DX 30 3-D’s ingenious design allows full adjustability in three dimensions – height by +/- 3mm, width +/- 3mm and depth by +/- 2mm – and the hinges can be fine-tuned independently of each other on a door. This, along with Pivota’s innovate separable design and slim body, makes them easy to fit on site with minimal cut out of the door. * sales@cookebrothers.co.uk

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Doors, Windows & Facades Senior Architectural Systems awarded UK patent for PURe range Senior Architectural Systems has been awarded a UK patent (UK patent number GB252363.8) for its PURe range of energy-efficient windows and doors. The patented system is the first on the UK market to benefit from an enhanced thermal barrier manufactured from expanded polyurethane foam (PUR). Traditionally used in cladding and insulation products, the use of PUR as a thermal barrier in windows and doors gives the PURe range the potential to achieve U-values as low as 0.71W/m2K, when calculated as a commercial CEN standard window, and 0.93W/m2K when calculated as a CEN standard door. * enquiries@sasmail.co.uk

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Renovated steel windows stand out at Freemasons’ Hall For nearly two decades, Steel Window Association member, Steel Window Service and Supplies, has been involved with work relating to the windows of Freemasons’ Hall in London.

The latest project has seen the renovation of 15 large windows complete with leaded lights and coloured glass on one of the building’s main staircases. The nine-week renovation project saw Steel Window Service and Supplies manufacture new steel frames using W20 sections that closely replicated the original medium universal profiles. The frames, which are in a range of sizes with the largest around 1m wide by just over 2m high, were polyester powder coated in RAL 5010 Gentian Blue to match the original colour. * info@steel-window-association.co.uk ( 0208 543 2841

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New greenteQ TS007 one-star cylinder

Q-Star is the latest addition to VBH’s greenteQ range and was previewed at April’s FIT Show, where it gained approval from fabricators and installers.The cylinder features effective protection against bumping, picking and drilling and is designed to be used with a two-star door handle to provide full three-star protection to TS007. Both sides feature a sacrificial break point to hamper attempts to gain entry by snapping and extracting the cylinder.

The key will still operate the cylinder after snapping at these points, giving the user the opportunity to gain access to the dwelling while a replacement is arranged.

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Roofing, Cladding & Insulation

Aluminium becomes a decking favourite A manufacturer of patented aluminium open grilles has tapped into widespread demand for a more practical alternative to traditional timber decking.

Yorkshire-based neaco has received a high volume of specifications for its unique Techdek system as garden decking, sun terraces, external walkways and balcony flooring. Architects, designers, landscaping professionals and contractors have been quick to appreciate Techdek’s advantages.

The product is non-toxic, non-combustible, corrosive-free, extremely durable and easy to install without requiring hot works such as welding. A patented swage-locked construction between bars enables high structural efficiency and load-bearing capacity. neaco’s National Sales Manager, Peter Melia, comments:“We have been attracting a lot of specifications from projects which require low-maintenance decking and terraces – Techdek is virtually maintenance-free, therefore gives it a clear advantage over wood, which can be vulnerable to the elements and

requires regular surface treatment to protect the grain. Our grilles are available with a ribbed surface for anti-slip performance.”

Techdek is similarly suited to balcony flooring with grille profiles that provide a generous 74% contact area yet drain water efficiently. neaco has developed another system, Neatdek 188, featuring concealed drainage gaps which provide even greater privacy for balconies by completely obscuring the view from below. Many residential developments have specified Techdek and Neatdek 188 as an integral part of neaco’s allin-one modular balconies which also provide maintenance-free durability.”

Techdek has served a wide variety of architectural uses encompassing cladding, roof access walkways, screening, ventilation, bridge cycle/pedestrian ways and solar shading. All products are backed by a lifetime guarantee.

8 www.neaco.co.uk * sales@neaco.co.uk ( 01653 695721

VMZINC used for Derry centre of sporting excellence Klober air-open underlay for Grade 1 Listed manor house Loseley House, a Grade 1 Listed Elizabethan manor house in Guildford, is the latest high-profile renovation project to feature Klober Permo air roofing underlay. Philip Acton, of Philips Chartered Surveyors which produced the design specification, explained: “The house and gardens are of immense architectural interest and required products of the highest performance.The whole building was reroofed and Klober’s air-open underlay chosen because of its exceptional vapour permeability.” Permo air is approved by the NHBC for use without supporting high-level ventilation and a water vapour resistance of 0.03MN/sg will ensure that the entire roof can breathe effectively.

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The £12.7m Foyle Arena, designed by architects Samuel Stevenson & Sons, features VMZINC single and double lock standing seam roofs and facades in QUARTZZINC and QUARTZ-ZINC PLUS. Funded by Derry City and Strabane District Council, it will be a centre of excellence for climbing, judo and wrestling, though its extensive facilities include a 25m swimming pool with a moveable floor, a separate children’s pool and twelve floodlit, synthetic five-a-side football pitches.

VMZINC PLUS has a protective underside coating which enables a warm roof, nonventilated construction to be used. * vmzinc.uk@vmzinc.com

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FAKRO roof windows for stunning bungalow conversion

When sourcing products for the conversion of his 1950s bungalow in Mitcham, Tan Jeraj took the advice of his builder and used 11 FAKRO FTP-V U3 centre pivot roof windows. The house has been transformed into one with five double bedrooms and three bathrooms, and is filled with natural light. The quality of the close grain pine has made a major contribution to the visual aesthetic of a contemporary development which has been submitted for the Build It Design Awards. Described as one of the most desirable homes in Mitcham, the roof windows were chosen for their visual distinctiveness and exceptional value. * sales@fakrogb.com

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Dow Building Solutions sets new standard in XPS roofing insulation Dow has become the first company to attain a coveted Green Guide Rating A+ by BRE Global for its extruded polystyrene (XPS) roofing insulation product, XENERGY SL. This certification further supports the performance credentials of the Dow Building Solutions product, launched last year, making it the only XPS to achieve this internationally-recognised certificate.

BRE Global is the international provider of BREEAM, the world’s first sustainability assessment method for buildings, which takes into account all materials used in the building and its performance during the building life cycle. XENERGY SL will help projects achieve improved BREEAM ratings due to its high performance, as recognised by its attainment of the Green Guide Rating A+.

XENERGY SL is a flame-retarded, XPS roof insulation product, which achieves

significantly improved lambda insulation performance delivering a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of less than five.

By using CO2 as the blowing agent and adding infrared blocking particles to scatter and reflect heat radiation within the foam board used for XENERGY SL, lambda values have been decreased by up to 11%.

The result is reduced heat transfer during winter to keep a building warm, as well helping to keep it cool in the summer.

XENERGY SL is designed to offer highly

moisture-resistant flat roof insulation at reduced thicknesses versus conventional XPS alternatives. XENERGY SL offers a reduction of up to 4mW of thermal conductivity in various thicknesses and was launched to meet demands from architects and specifiers for a product with improved thermal performance of inverted roof insulation.

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Level threshold protection?

‘Protection’ from the Latin verb ‘protegere’ means ‘covered in front’ which is exactly what the Level Threshold Cavitray from Cavity Trays of Yeovil provides in one simple placement.

The threshold is a critical area where numerous protective DPC elements come together. Protecting cavity wall thresholds against damp transference can be more challenging when a level access is required or where the sill rise is minimal.

Level Threshold Trays (Type LTT) are 3D, preshaped protective DPCs that envelop the masonry. Each acts as an extended DPC hat that covers the top and the sides of each skin, permitting the flooring arrangement to interface structurally without the danger of damp transference, because the skin is effectively enveloped.

Each end of the Type LTT wraps around the three faces of each reveal skin, projecting into the cavity. Thus the horizontal DPC in each skin can terminate within a protective wrap, despite being at a higher level, ensuring integration continuity. The reveal closer is able to overlay each wrap and continue downwardly, terminating below sill level.

By enveloping and isolating the structural masonry, the Type LTT permits abutting flooring, abutting insulation and DPCs/ membranes to continue over an inside skin and converge with an exterior skin that itself is isolated from dampness at the point of convergence.

The inner skin Type LTT is hidden following completion of adjacent finishes, whilst the external Type LTT may be trimmed back following frame/sill installation so its presence is not apparent.

Level Threshold Trays by Cavity Trays of Yeovil are extensively used by contractors seeking a consistent, protective, standardised threshold construction arrangement.

8 www.cavitytrays.com * enquiries@cavitytrays.co.uk ( 01935 474769

Rewards for young professionals announced Saint-Gobain Weber completes pioneering care centre weber.rend MT multi-coat render system

by Saint-Gobain Weber has been applied as the exterior finish on Woodward Close, a pioneering 60-bed dementia care home in Berkshire.The complex layout of the five linked buildings has been achieved using timber frame construction with much of the fabrication carried out off-site including the curved outer skin formed by the render carrier board for the weber.rend MT system.

The weber.rend MT multi-coat render system has full BBA certification, meeting NHBC requirements for new build housing where house-builders and developers are constantly seeking modern methods of construction for speed and cost efficiency.

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The winners of the annual Construction Development Alliance (CDA) Awards were revealed recently at Burnley Mechanics Theatre, during a ceremony hosted by television personality, Dominic Littlewood. Developed to support the future of the property and construction industry in the North West, the awards, sponsored by Sika Sarnafil, recognise the hard work, determination and growth of young people in the sector. Bobby Bolton, 23-year-old Construction Manager at LendLease, was crowned Young Construction Professional and Overall Winner at the awards. Sika Roofing, the single ply roofing manufacturer, has continued its support of the event this year and is looking to help drive the development of future construction workers. * sarnafilroofing@uk.sika.com

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Specifiers go for gold with new ROCKPANEL Metallics design

ROCKPANEL Group is giving specifiers even greater creative freedom with the unveiling of an eye-catching ROCKPANEL Metallics design. The mellow opulence of ROCKPANEL Metallics gold will equip architects with an even greater choice of facade cladding boards, inspiring them to realise their most stunning visions. The ROCKPANEL Group decided to introduce the design to meet demand from architects across Europe. The engineered lustre of the ROCKPANEL Metallics gold will ensure the panels bring a touch of class to any building. A further four Metallics designs are offered: white aluminium, graphite grey, anthracite metallic and grey aluminium, allowing architects to create a range of contemporary finished facades. * info@rockpanel.co.uk

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Sika launches innovative online sustainability hub for specifiers Architects, contractors and clients are set to save time and hassle with Sika’s Sustainability Hub, a new website packed with tools for those specifying projects with a sustainability requirement.

Sustainability considerations within a specification, especially if they’re essential to meet certain corporate social responsibility requirements or obey regulations, can take days to research and calculate. Sika’s Sustainability Hub will drastically reduce this time with its all-in-one portal that

guides users through the process.

The hub contains information on Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), a standardised method used to evaluate the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a Sika product’s life. Sika can offer specific LCA evaluations for individual projects

along with information on BRE green guide ratings and Environmental Product Datasheets (EPDs), providing the specific information specifiers need to meet sustainability requirements.

In addition, the user can request general sustainability packs or specific packs for green building certification schemes including BREEAM, (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), the standard for best practice in sustainable design, and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). To maintain a flexible system, BREEAM adopts a ‘balanced scorecard’ approach to the assessment and rating of building performance. Requesting project-specific BREEAM packs through the website saves time and outlines the extra points available through the specification of a Sika roofing system.

Furthermore, the hub contains all the information required on Sika Roofing’s sustainable systems, including SolaRoof, Green Roof and thermal insulation, as well as a number of sustainability case studies.

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Floors, Walls & Ceilings

The importance of movement joints in floor tile installations Fluctuations in temperature and moisture cause movement in the subfloor and lead to cracks transferring to the tile covering, or worse, cause a loss of bond between the covering and the substrate which can result in damage to the surface covering. For this reason, industry standards state that all tile and stone installations should include the use of movement joints.

In many circumstances movement joints are overlooked, however, a lack of movement joints can be a contributing factor to many different types of failure. If you do not include movement joints in the specification liability, any resulting problems could fall to the architect.

The question, however, is how do you provide the movement joints necessary to ensure a durable installation and what movement joints should you use?

Movement joints need to go through the tile and screed covering and need to be designed at specification. Understanding the

types of movement that can occur will help when deciding which type of movement joint will best counteract the resulting stresses.

In floors there are two basic types of movement joints, structural and nonstructural. Both types will be subject to different movement patterns and this will affect the type of joint needed to prevent damage.

Preformed joints can accommodate roughly 15-20% of their movement zone.

The Schlüter-DILEX range of movement joints offer complete protection and are available to specifiers in a wide selection of

materials, colours and movement capability.

To find out more about hosting the CPD seminar ‘Movement Joints and Uncoupling Membranes for Tile and Stone Coverings’ visit Schlüter’s website. For priority bookings quote FC&AMJU07.

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Heraklith panels help restore church

Smooth finish for professionals Simpson Strong-Tie has launched a new catalogue dedicated to its range of bead and mesh products for the professional plasterer.

Covering a high-quality range of galvanised stainless steel, PVCu products and fully tested CE Marked items, the catalogue also features handy hints and tips for fixings and installation for a smooth and professional finish whatever the environment. Sales Director, Jon Head, says: “Our new beads and mesh catalogue has been created exclusively to provide professional plasterers with suitable solutions for all indoor and outdoor applications and to provide advice on how to prevent issues such as premature rusting.”

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Hundreds of square metres of thermo-acoustic woodwool boards, made by Heraklith and supplied by Marmox, have been employed in the restoration of a Grade II Listed church building, located in East London, St. Paul’s Church, Bow Common, following weather damage. During the painstaking work, a total of 135 standard Heraklith panels were consumed by Noble & Taylor’s craftsmen; being readily-cut to shape onsite and decorated as desired by the consultants to match as closely as possible the original decorative scheme. Heraklith panels are produced from natural timber fibres to provide a durable and versatile woodwool insulation. * sales@marmox.co.uk

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Hunter Douglas floating ceiling adorns the imposing Sir Ian Wood Building

Hunter Douglas has created a 450m2 circular floating ceiling in the reception area at the Sir Ian Wood Building, part of the £120m Garthdee Campus at Robert Gordon University,Aberdeen.The open, linear ceiling, in multiwidth module American red oak, provides a natural feel within an ultra-modern building. Hunter Douglas provided three widths – 63, 90 and 117mm – to provide depth and visual interest.The linear system comprised a 15mm gap with an overall module of 105mm average and the gaps were infilled with 15mm acoustic fleece.The panels were finished with UV resistant varnish and treated with Magma fire treatment, ensuring the ceiling achieved European fire class B-S2-D0. * info@hunterdouglas.co.uk

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fermacell boards help with dynamic hotel development When modular timber construction specialist Carbon Dynamic was asked to supply garden units for a four-star spa hotel there was only one wall and ceiling finish it was prepared to use – fermacell. The square-edged, gypsum fibreboard panels have been used to line 13 modular, 26m2 garden lodges, including one accessible unit, at the luxury Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness.

Each of the five-star lodges were manufactured and fully fitted-out in Carbon Dynamic’s factory in less than three weeks.

They were then delivered to site and installed in less than two days onto preprepared, low-impact foundations in the hotel’s rear garden.

The project is constructed entirely from Scots timber and laid out in an exciting, sculptural curve, with each room having a unique view. The hotel’s brief was to create bedroom accommodation that integrated the hotel experience with the landscaped gardens. This was met by designing the

accommodation as individual units that each had direct access from the landscaped gardens.

The garden-facing elevation of each module is fully-glazed, while a new natural stone wall was constructed as an extension to an existing garden wall to create a bookend to the 400m2 development, concealing it from general view and allowing the modular constructions to nestle into the landscape.

Untreated larch was chosen for the external cladding to create a softer, more rustic and sympathetic aesthetic to blend the

building into its environment. The fermacell boards, which clad the interior, are fireresistant to Class A2-s1, d0 and perform to thermal conductivity 0.32W/mK. Award-winning Carbon Dynamic, which always uses fermacell boarding for its projects, completed the detailed design, off-site construction and installation of the modules from its 4000m2 off-site factory in Invergordon.

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Sky’s the limit for Polyflor flooring at Imperial War Museum High-performance sheet flooring from Polyflor was recently used to create a statement floor in The Armoury Café and Kitchen at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.This refurbished restaurant area at Britain’s largest aviation museum features a monochrome floor design which was created using 300m² of Polyflor’s Classic Mystique PUR vinyl flooring. Installed by flooring contractors Key Floors, the Smokestone, Nocturne and Quartz shades form concentric circles that echo the Royal Air Force logo.The flooring design was produced with help from Polyflor’s in-house design service team who used waterjet cutting technology to create perfect circles which were pieced together on site. * info@polyflor.com

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Interface introduces new global collection – World Woven Uncomplicated, handcrafted and imperfect are attributes that are increasingly sought after in the materials in which we surround ourselves. Developed by Interface’s exclusive Product Designer David Oakey, the World Woven collection weaves together modern sensibilities with memories of some of the most enduring textiles of the past, including the tweeds and woven textiles of Oakey’s upbringing. The collection includes six 25 x 100cm Skinny Planks and three square ranges with eight colour options. The three square styles in 50 x 50cm format, Collings Cottage, Mod Café and Scottish Sett, are perfect for creating contrasting areas within an installation or as a standalone feature. * interface.uk@interface.com

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Designer Contracts provides highquality show home

Residential construction specialist Lovell Homes brought in Designer Contracts to add its interior design expertise to the four-bedroom Glenavon View show home at the developer’s Cherry Hill site in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire.With a reputation for designing show home properties that respond to a tight marketing brief and deliver a rapid ROI to developers, Designer Contracts was instructed to create a scheme that would appeal to families and young professionals looking for an elegant home.This has resulted in a chic, sophisticated interior design reflecting the high-quality build and featuring a neutral palette of rich creams and taupes, highlighted with glamorous gold and pewter metallics.

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Floors, Walls & Ceilings Safety facelift for awardwinning Millennium Walkway

The safety of an aerial footbridge in Derbyshire has been improved with the addition of an anti-slip surface. Rotten timber panels on the Millennium Walkway have been replaced with long-lasting, durable Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) anti-slip panels by Polydeck. Chris Spooner, Managing Director of Polydeck, said: “Inspections by council engineers identified that the timber panels were deteriorating significantly.We suggested the installation of our 30mm thick foam core structural GRP anti-slip panels which are mechanically fixed to the steel substructure.The panels are designed to take a loading of 5kN per square metre uniform distributed load with a less than 1/200 deflection, to prevent sway.” * sales@polydeck.co.uk

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Knauf AMF’s new app makes specification even easier Knauf AMF has launched an innovative app – AMF InfoCentre.The app enables architects, acousticians and contractors to download helpful information about Knauf AMF’s product range. It offers clever tools including: smart search, bookmark functions and push notifications.

Knauf AMF also offers a free Room Acoustics Calculator app that adds real value when calculating the acoustics of a space.With 24 room types to choose from, the app calculates the reverberation times of different frequencies and predicts how they would change if the room’s acoustics were optimised. AMF Infocentre and Room Acoustics Calculator are available to download free from Google play and the App Store. * info@knaufamf.co.uk

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Explore colour with Antron carpet fibre Antron carpet fibre, alongside ColourHive, is set to launch key trends influencing colour throughout 2017, presented in Global Trends 2017/18. Global Trends 2017/18 sees a confident approach as we embrace the discoveries that are shaping our future. Antron carpet fibre will present four themes that refocus palettes around a exploration concept. In Aquatic Voyage the unknown capacity of our oceans is explored in strange and surreal material combinations. Infinite Shadow presents a cool palette of intense contrasts. In Classic Allure, a new form of classicism emerges – atmospheric and luxurious.The final theme is Coded Canvas, where saturated brights and energy come to the fore.

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dBack carpet tiles make things a little quieter Polyflor flooring makes the grade

High-performance flooring from Polyflor has recently been installed in classrooms at The City of London Academy secondary school and sixth form in Southwark, London.Around 2000m² of Classic Mystique PUR sheet vinyl flooring in the cool blue Mountain Lake shade was installed by Essexbased Loughton Contracts into classrooms on the first floor of the school building.

The hard-wearing, homogeneous Classic Mystique PUR floorcovering is ideally suited to the demands of high traffic school environments, demonstrating outstanding durability and abrasion resistance.The 16 designs available in this range have a tonal, non-directional appearance, featuring a duotone chip decoration with marbleised tonal highlight chips.

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With the ability to reduce noise by up to 50% and showing a 15% improvement in the absorption of impact sound, dBack equipped carpet tiles from modulyss provide designers with a solution to one of the most common problems in commercial interiors. Dealing with sound is a primary concern for designers looking to create interiors that provide users with a better working environment. Using a dense recycled polyester felt to provide sound absorption, and featuring 70% recycled content, dBack can be specified as an option on the entire modulyss carpet tile collection.The cushion backing provides heightened underfoot comfort and absorbs wear, while providing superior stability. * info@modulyss.com

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Brussels Airport connection features bespoke Hunter Douglas ceiling

A gloomy connection between two terminals at Brussels Airport has been transformed thanks to a new state-ofthe-art building that features a Hunter Douglas customised ceiling. The Connector is a €71m aboveground structure, connecting Pier A and Pier B terminals. The aim of the new linking building was to bring the two areas together. One of the most striking elements of the new structure is the complex, customised 300C shell-like roof structure, which was manufactured by Hunter Douglas. The perforated ceiling panels contain an acoustic membrane, which gives them a high degree of sound absorption – they are also detachable, allowing easy access to services and for maintenance. *info@hunterdouglas.co.uk

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Kitchens, Bathrooms & Washrooms

True quality never shouts There are many things in life worth making a noise about.

Yet there are others that deserve the simplicity of silence, preferring to earn its appreciation without making a sound.

A Sylan washroom is one of those.

Take Amwell’s pivot hinge. Here it is ensured the heavyweight door has two rock-solid anchor points – one in the headrail and the other on the foot of the pilaster. Hidden completely from view inside the headrail, Amwell’s adjustable spring and damper capsule controls the speed of the door and closes it beautifully. At ground level, an unseen stainless steel bearing raceway smoothly glides the door to a soft and silent close.

A rounded heel detail on the door ensures

a totally flush line, with no visible hinge in the closed position. Just as discreet, the headrail can be fixed to within 10mm of the ceiling – so privacy is never compromised.

That attention to detail, that sense of luxury, doesn’t stop on the outside of Sylan – it continues past the door as well.

Amwell’s fixings are completely invisible, hidden within seamless joints that will not rattle and will not move about.You’ll never know they’re there, but they will support

the whole system; strong yet silent.

All these components are tested to a minimum of 100,000 cycles before they’re approved. It’s a dedication to getting the details not just right, but perfect, that means a silent, unrushed feeling every time. And that speaks volumes about Sylan.

8 www.amwell-systems.com * sales@amwell-systems.com ( 01763 276200

Showerwall updates range with distinctive decors MX – for all things showers MX Group’s impressive one-stop-shop range of shower and bathroom products continues to be welcomed by specifiers looking for high-quality, reliable products for new developments and refurbishment projects. The response to the new products added in the past 12 months has been phenomenal, with current and new customers keen to find out more about the extended offering that features in the new ‘MX Collection’ catalogue – available in printed form or online by visiting the MX website. From shower trays, electric showers and thermostatic showers, to shower enclosures, taps and mixers and shower accessories, there’s a huge range of quality products.

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The relaunch of Showerwall sees a major design update with seven new decors added to the standard range, with the introduction of a new design-led Infinity Collection.

The 100% waterproof Showerwall system caters for a wide range of tastes and demographics. Infinity offers 14 distinctive designs with a departure into bold colours, metallics and graphic prints to create a modern, edgier look. There is also the option of totally bespoke digital print designs. The seven new decors on the main Showerwall range – the Design Selection – include Urban Concrete, Silver Travertine, Black Glacial, Copper Quartz, Oxidised Copper,Volterra and Silver Bronx. * info@showerwall.co.uk

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Carron Phoenix Elena tap – a distinctive design at a competitive price

The clean lines of the square base on the new Elena from Carron Phoenix, combined with its elegantly curved ribbon spout, offers a distinctively designed tap to suit any modern or contemporary kitchen.

The monobloc Elena comes with the assurance of a five-year guarantee.

The tap features a swivel spout which rotates through 360° and the design of the square base is complemented by a single joystick-style, square side lever. It has an overall height of 375mm and a spout reach of 230mm.The Elena operates on a minimum 0.5 bar pressure so is suitable for both combination boiler and most gravity-fed water systems. * sales@carron.com

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Kitchens, Bathrooms & Washrooms Shopping centre washrooms sport new look

Washroom has played a key role in upgrading the washrooms the Weston Favell shopping centre in Northampton.Washroom delivered a modern washroom area, including disabled toilets and baby change facilities, all designed to match the new contemporary centre. Key to the success of the washroom design is the installation of the new Alavo integrated consumable unit from Dolphin Dispensers which features subtle colour changing LEDs as well as concealed soap and hand dryers. Combined with bespoke sloping Corian troughs, the Alavo system adds to the high specification finish yet will withstand the rigours of a high traffic environment, making it ideal for a busy shopping centre. * sales@washroom.co.uk

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RAK Ceramics wins Best Sanitaryware Brand at BKU Awards RAK Ceramics was voted ‘Best Sanitaryware Brand’ at the BKU Awards. Commenting on the win, Abdallah Massaad, Group CEO at RAK Ceramics, said: “It is an honour to receive the award for Best Sanitaryware Brand at the BKU Awards. RAK Ceramics has enjoyed 25 years of ceramics’ expertise and our products feature in some of the most iconic buildings in the world.” RAK Ceramics received the prestigious award at Shakespeare’s iconic Globe Theatre in London, an event attended by leading figures in the industry. In addition, RAK Ceramics was also a finalist in the Best Flooring, Best Sinks and Best Accessories Brand categories. * marketing@rakceramics.co.uk

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Hansgrohe launches Talis S floorstanding bath mixer Hansgrohe, a leading innovator in technology, design and sustainability for bathrooms, has extended its Talis range with the new floorstanding bath and shower mixer. With minimalist lines and an easy-to-use pin handle and baton style hand shower, it is the perfect partner for a freestanding bath as part of a modern and luxurious bathroom.

For a coordinated scheme, there are matching polished chrome basin mixers including the latest Talis S Select with intuitive and convenient push on/off control.

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HVAC/HVP

Rinnai PHEX Solo success Rinnai scored a big success at PHEX 2016 with its Solo recirculator water heating range, an industry-leading A-class commercial and domestic hot water heating unit suited to all domestic and commercial sites and installations. The range is renewables compatible and supplied pre-fitted with a coil.

The Rinnai Infinity Solo condensing and low NOx water heater is the first of its kind to combine the advanced technology of wall-mounted, continuous-flow water heaters with a stainless steel storage cylinder, all-in-one compact footprint.

The design parameters of the Solo empowers specifiers, designers, installers and engineers to benefit from unique Rinnai technology in applications where it was not previously possible. For example, the Infinity Solo with both 35kW and 54kW-sized appliances, ensures sites with a smaller gas meter can readily use this technology. The larger Infinity Solo model will also act as a high-efficiency alternative to gas-fired storage appliances that exist in today’s market.

The cylinder is stainless steel and this reduces the weight compared to glasslined models and makes transportation and installation a lot easier. As well as the difference in weight, the cylinders also have extremely low heat loss figures (as low as 1.41kW/h day), so the user pays less to maintain the heat within the tank.

One other benefit of the Infinity Solo using a stainless steel cylinder is that the life expectancy of the material is far greater than that of a glass-lined equivalent as glass suffers from thermal shock causing it to crack after a period of time.

8 www.rinnaiuk.com * info@rinnaiuk.com ( 01928 531870

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South Lanarkshire College goes lowcarbon with NIBE

A newly-opened,‘zero-energy’ teaching block at South Lanarkshire College in Scotland has been fitted with a ground source heat pump system from NIBE – helping it become the first building in the UK to achieve a BREEAM sustainability rating of ‘Outstanding’.The £2.6m building has been specifically designed with first-rate environmental credentials in mind.A system was required that would meet the heating requirements of the eightclassroom block in the most sustainable, cost-effective way possible. Mike Anderson, Director at NIBE VIP Installer Anderson Floor Warming and Renewables, specified, designed and fitted the NIBE F1345 40kW ground source heat pump (GSHP) to partner with water-based underfloor heating.

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BoilerMag XL commercial filters and XT industrial filters are now available to buy from Pipe Center. Specialist knowledge of larger heating systems makes Pipe Center the perfect partner for BoilerMag. Pipe Center is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of heating and pipe-related products to the commercial and industrial building services industry.

The commercial BoilerMag XL is a high-performance magnetic boiler filter ideal for mediumsized commercial, retail or large residential properties, while the industrial BoilerMag XT provides industrial heating system protection for larger systems. Both prevent the build-up of ferrous oxide in central heating systems, reducing energy bills and increasing boiler life. * service@boilermag.com

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Vent-Axia completes the set Vent-Axia has added the Sentinel Kinetic F to its Lo-Carbon Sentinel Kinetic range of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) units.Vent-Axia now offers a full set of MVHR solutions to meet all applications from one-bedroom apartments to light commercial projects. Manufactured in the UK, the exceptional Sentinel Kinetic range from VentAxia now offers MVHR options with airflow from 15l/s to 200l/s. The Sentinel Kinetic F sits in the middle of this range and offers outstanding performance for its size. It features the latest high efficiency, backward-curved impeller design which provides higher flow and pressure and ensures the lowest possible energy consumption. * info@vent-axia.com

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Geberit helps stately home go green Geberit Mapress Carbon Steel has been chosen for its ease of installation and no hot works credentials to install a biomass system at Saltram House, a magnificent National Trust-owned stately home in Plymouth.

One of many National Trust premises to get a renewable makeover as part of a general drive to improve the environmental credentials of its buildings, Saltram House now enjoys heating and hot water courtesy of a biomass system consisting of 220kW and 95kW boilers fuelled by pellets. A district heating system services the main house and the majority of other buildings on the site.

The installer’s choice “We use Geberit Mapress on 95% of our jobs,” says James Howard, from Dunster Biomass, which installed the system at Saltram House. “It’s quick to install, easy to use and reliable.The fact there’s no need for hot works makes it ideal for historic buildings.

“At Saltram House, the new biomass system had to be installed within the confines of the existing building and its heating system, while ensuring that it could be easily removed if required. Faced with narrow doorways and cramped spaces, Geberit Mapress was the ideal solution.

“The age of the building and cramped environment also meant that solder was just not an option because of the fire risk.

Geberit Mapress and its press-fit assembly is particularly well-suited to jobs of this nature.”

8 www.geberit.co.uk * enquiries@geberit.co.uk ( 01926 516800

Rinnai offers low NOx, sustainable, on-demand hot water heating units Rinnai’s latest innovation in the energy-efficient, fast delivery of instantly usable hot water is the Infinity Solo recirculator water heater. The design parameters of this product empowers specifiers, designers, installers and engineers to benefit from unique Rinnai technology in applications it was once not previously possible.

The Infinity Solo will have both 35kW and 54kW-sized appliances, ensuring sites with a smaller gas meter can readily use this technology. The larger Infinity Solo model will also act as a high efficiency alternative to gas-fired storage appliances that exist in today’s market.

The cylinder is stainless steel and this reduces the weight compared to glasslined models, and it makes transportation and installation a lot easier. As well as the difference in weight, the cylinders also have

extremely low heat loss figures (as low as 1.41kW/h day), so the user pays less to maintain the heat within the tank.

The Infinity Solo range is also renewables compatible and supplied prefitted with a coil, meaning that the primary energy source will always be from renewable gains and the complementary Rinnai water heater will only apply the precise amount of gas to boost the difference in temperature.

Rinnai manufactures the energy-efficient

Infinity range of gas-fired, continuousflow water heaters and space heaters.

The Infinity brand carries the widest range of condensing water heaters on the market today with the most impressive efficiencies in operation, leading the field in technological innovation.

8 www.rinnaiuk.com * info@rinnaiuk.com ( 01928 531870

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Building Elements

The Falcon Waterfree system consists of vitreous china fixtures with a patented cartridge that locks into a housing in the base of the urinal

Dramatic water savings by Ambassador Theatre Group Six famous London theatres have now installed Falcon Waterless Urinals in their gents toilets. The Savoy Theatre, The Harold Pinter Theatre, The Playhouse Theatre, The Duke of York’s, The Fortune and The Trafalgar Studios are now enjoying water savings of up to 150,000 litres of water per year, per urinal – a massive saving in water charges. They are soon to be joined by The Apollo Victoria.

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he Falcon Waterfree system consists of vitreous china fixtures with a patented cartridge that locks into a housing in the base of the urinal. The design of the urinal bowl and use of non-porous materials ensure that all urine passes into and through the cartridge.

That’s all there is – no flush valve assembly, no water supply hookup and no wasted water.

It must also be remembered that the water saving figures quoted here are based on normal efficient usage of a flushing urinal.

A small steady leak from a cistern can waste a further 227,000 litres of water per year.

Often leaks go undetected in a flush urinal, escaping water spreads across the back of the bowl and is hard to see. A stuck urinal flush valve can waste 6370 litres per day. A waterless urinal will not leak.

Supplied by Relcross via its distributor EcoAd, the Falcon Flax urinals are designed to optionally carry advertisements across the top of the urinal. This maximises the commercial opportunity presented by a

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captive audience while removing a hygiene problem of wall-mounted advertisements.

The urinal mounted ads are easily cleaned with the urinals and offer no nooks or crannies to harbour bacteria.

The heart of the technology is the cartridge, which provides odour-free operation and easy maintenance.The pleasant-smelling sealant liquid inside the cartridge provides an airtight barrier to prevent odours from escaping.The cartridge also acts as a trap for uric sediment, which could otherwise contribute to drain pipe clogs.This results in a hygienic and odour-free environment, clean pipes and no water waste.

The only maintenance is routine spray-andwipe cleaning and an easy change of the cartridge after around 7000 uses, which might be two to three times per year.

Venues such as theatres, sports stadiums and conference centres are enthusiastic users of waterless urinals as so much water is currently wasted by automatically flushing urinals all day, every day, but with actual usage concentrated into short, busy

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Supplied by Relcross, the Falcon Flax urinals are designed to optionally carry advertisements across the top of the urinal

periods followed by further inactivity.

The Ambassador Theatre Group joins the Dolphin Stadium in Miami, the Nou Camp in Barcelona, the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough and many others who have installed Falcon Waterless Urinals. Any urinals can be replaced with waterless ones and the advantages enjoyed from day one.

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SPORTFIX components installed at UCC Mardyke athletics track Excessive rainwater has to be removed quickly and reliably from sports fields and competition areas. The SPORTFIX drainage channels, and other components offered by Hauraton, comply with the latest standards and also meet IAAF requirements. It is essential that sports facilities are designed and equipped to prevent serious injury to sports people if falls or accidents occur.

The University College Cork (UCC) has redeveloped its Mardyke athletics track in Cork City, Republic of Ireland. The new facility is part of a €10m budget and included a new synthetic eight-lane, fully floodlit, running track built to the IAAF standard with an additional 3720m² (40,000 ft²) added to the original arena. The arena now includes an indoor 60m running track, a performance analysis suite, two additional gym areas with over 140 additional pieces

of the latest gym equipment and three additional fitness studios.

Hauraton SPORTFIX drainage channels with aluminium finishing edges were installed around the perimeter of the IAAF, 400m track and along its straight. A steeple chase water jump kit was also installed alongside Hauraton SPORTFIX sand traps and soft edging around the long jump pit.

Tim Connolly, Managing Director of Hauraton, points out: “Our SPORTFIX range

offers products that not only meet the requirements of the IAAF for athletic tracks; there are drainage components for artificial turf playing fields, service channels and retractable shafts for cable management with drainage systems for grassed football fields.”

8 www.drainage-projects.co.uk * janine.kennedy@hauraton.co.uk ( 01582 501380

FDS helps former British Newspaper Library make headlines again

Fairview New Homes is building its Edition development in Colindale, Barnet, on the former British Newspaper Library site, which will comprise one, two and three-bedroom apartments.

FDS has been appointed to design, supply, install and commission natural and mechanical smoke ventilation systems for the development. FDS will also install its corridor environmental systems which will be used to mitigate excess heat build-up in the building’s common areas during day-to-day use. FDS carried out CFD modelling to justify the smoke ventilation system, demonstrating the system’s effectiveness through the creation of a virtual model to show how fire and heat will move through the building. * info@firedesignsolutions.com

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Sto solutions brings new life to luxury London refurbishment A project to bring new life to a landmark building in Covent Garden has turned the spotlight on the products and technical expertise available from Sto. A variety of Sto products were used on the exterior of the Dukelease Properties Hop House building. The exterior facade has been remodelled to enhance its original Viennese-style design. “We chose StoDeco Plan boards for the front facade, to create new window relief and entrance detailing,” explains Sheila Eilenberg of Brimelow McSweeney Architects. StoTherm Classic K external wall insulation (EWI) system was also applied to the rear facade of Hop House to achieve the target U-value of 0.20W/m²K. * info.uk@sto.com

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Roaring success for new Romag zoo installation The new £5.2m Land of the Lions enclosure at ZSL London Zoo benefits from an improved viewing experience thanks to highperformance, anti-reflective glass supplied

by Romag. More than 60m2 of Romag’s new AirGlaz toughened laminated glass has been specified to provide transparent safety walling for the viewing sections of the enclosure.

The public will be able to see the animals up-close through toughened laminated glass that will maintain its transparency and clarity while being protected by a structure strong enough to withstand the weight of large cats.The AirGlaz construction was designed for the enclosure to combine anti-reflective properties with maximum strength with high levels of safety.

8 www.romag.co.uk * sales@romag.co.uk ( 01207 500000

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Building Elements

EDEM Business School refurbished with an all composite cladding system The University of Valencia has three campuses including the EDEM Escuela de Empresarios Business School. As part of a major expansion of the EDEM Business School, three harbor buildings, which were formerly part of the Port of Valencia, have been combined, redesigned and totally refurbished inside and out, now with a modern new facade manufactured from a fire rated all composite system.

EDEM’s impressive new 7000m2 facade, which covers the entire length of the original three buildings, is constructed from a lightweight composite system using Scott Bader’s Crestapol 1212 high-performance acrylic resin for all parts.The new facade comprises 15,000m of FRP pultruded profiles and 2050 moulded parts with 100 different shape and size combinations – each composite part had to pass the EN UNE 13501-1 Cs2d0 fire standard.

The exterior building design has areas with traditional flat wall panel cladding, but is largely made up of elliptical-shaped slats in front of the new expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows.The production of all the moulded components for the new facade was carried out by Miraplas S.L. The EN UNE 13501-1 Cs2d0 fire rating

level is a demanding one for exterior building parts, where s2 only allows medium smoke generation, and d0 requires no material droplets within 600 seconds.

Miraplas concluded from trials carried out that only Scott Bader’s Crestapol 1212 high-performance acrylic resin had the performance properties and processing flexibility to be cost-effectively used for all of the different manufacturing methods. A critical factor was the high filler loading of 170 phr by weight of Alumina trihydrate (ATH) needed to pass the EN UNE 13501 fire specification. As such, Crestapol 1212 was specified and used to produce all of the 2050 moulded parts as well as the 15,000m of GRP pultruded profiles needed for the EDEM building facade.

8 www.scottbader.com * enquiries@scottbader.com ( 01933 666638

Demand is high for modern touches for new builds Sika makes waves in Snowdonia An innovative concrete reinforcement and waterproofing system from Sika was specified for use on Surf Snowdonia, an inland surf lagoon in North Wales. More than 400m2 of SikaProof A, together with 200m2 of Sika’s cementitious fibre reinforced Sikalastic1K waterproofing system, delivered outstanding levels of watertightness to the central channel. The Sikalastic 1K cementitious waterproofing membrane was then installed to the visible element of the walls, which will be above the waves, and Sika’s Adfil Durus polypropylene fibres were chosen to replace traditional steel reinforcement around the edge of the lagoon.To complete the system, construction joints were sealed with Sika Tricosal Metal Waterbar.

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A nationwide survey commissioned by Sky reveals that almost 70% of people would like new build properties to be better equipped for modern living, with people citing a desire for more storage, renewable energy, and prewired TV and broadband. Broadband and TV services ranked in the top five essential services, just behind more traditional utilities such as electricity, water, and gas, with 55% of people expecting to have TV services in place either before they move in or within 48 hours. A staggering 93% of people said they would be attracted to a property that offered Walk in Working (WIW) services. * sky@freshcommunication.co.uk

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Pendock columns greet patients at Ashford hospital A new private healthcare facility has been completed with architects choosing Pendock to supply column casings, which flank the reception desk and another check-in point. The Pendock column casings add their own element of elegance in the design of the two reception areas. Making a clear visual statement as well as concealing the much more mundane structural columns, the casings have been supplied in a traditional Egger Alabaster colour, with black laminate recessed collars around their bases. One pair was fabricated to stand 3.6m in height, while the ones either side of the main reception measure 3300 and 2550mm tall. * sales@pendock.co.uk

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Building Elements Portakabin launches design service for interim science laboratories

DuPont Corian from CDUK makes an impact for lawyers Glacier White Corian from CDUK has been used to create a stunning centrepiece reception desk for the City of London office of international law firm, Loyens and Loeff. The entire front of the counter was clad in 6mm Glacier White Corian with a feature backlit logo. To achieve the backlighting effect the Corian was bonded to an MDF substrate with routering through the MDF removing half the thickness of the Corian, allowing light to pass through.The design specification called for privacy and visibility, so a grey slatted glass fin feature was created to act as a barrier to the door.

8 www.cdukltd.co.uk * info@cdukltd.co.uk ( 0113 201 2240

Portakabin has launched a design and planning service for interim science, design and technology classrooms. Portakabin has supplied science laboratories for short-term use for the past four years and has now expanded its services to offer further assistance to schools and colleges. Its specialist classrooms for hire are designed to academy standards and Department for Education guidelines for space, layout, safety and fittings. Bespoke designs can now be provided to meet specific requirements, as well as standard layouts which can be adapted to reduce procurement time. Specialist equipment, including furniture, can be provided for short-term use or Portakabin can fit-out teaching spaces with the school’s own equipment if required. * information@portakabin.co.uk

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Remmers’ website – new, improved and accessible to specifiers Remmers UK has given its website a fresh new look and the fluent, responsive design means that it can now also be viewed on both desktop and mobile devices easily.

The new site enables all visitors access to a wide range of detailed information quickly and efficiently. Highlights include Remmers’ product catalogues, technical data sheets, in-house and NBS specification guides, colour charts, literature and system-specific project references, along with a host of other helpful product and system information. The website also has an up-to-date news section and integrated social media links to Remmers’ Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. * sales@remmers.co.uk

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New Minimise agreement brings OMS energy-efficient lights to the UK

Minimise Energy has signed a UK distribution agreement with OMS, one of Europe’s most technologically advanced lighting manufacturers. The deal will bring OMS lighting products to the UK, making the full range available nationwide. This will give architects, engineering consultants, contractors and lighting specifiers access to an exciting and progressive range of LED luminaires and lighting controls for both internal and external applications. OMS lighting products and controls will be delivered through Minimise Energy Lighting Technologies and will benefit from the in-house lighting expertise, design and technical support available from within the broader Minimise Energy offering. * info@minimisegroup.com

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Kawneer helps take BREEAM to The Edge Kawneer’s curtain walling features on the building with the highest ever BREEAM rating in the world. A building clad in Kawneer’s unitised curtain walling has won top honours in the global BREEAM Awards 2016. The Edge, the new headquarters for Deloitte in Amsterdam, which made use of 17,000m2 of a re-engineered, custom-made Kawneer curtain walling solution, won the Office New Construction category against four other projects in the organisation’s 25th anniversary awards. Designed

by PLP Architecture, built by main contractor G&S Bouw for developer OVG Real Estate, and assessed

by C2N Bouwmanagement, it achieved the highest BREEAM rating ever (98.35%) in the competition. * kuk.kawneer@alcoa.com

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Avire LCD displays for Chinese retail and office buildings Avire has supplied LCD displays to two buildings in Shenyang, China.The lift safety and communication specialist provided 37 C1 E-Motive displays for the China Resources MixC Shopping Mall in Shenyang’s Golden Corridor Plaza.The 7-inch displays are installed in both the landing areas and lift cars.The 250,000m2, seven-storey structure features more than 200 shops, alongside catering and entertainment facilities.Avire also supplied six 15-inch C2 multimedia displays, from E-Motive, for the landing stations in China Resources’ Land Mansion – a 70,000m2, 36-storey office building on Shenyang’s Golden Corridor.Avire designed the layout of both the C1 and C2 displays.

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Fire safety seminar exposes industry knowledge gap A survey following a series of in-depth presentations at the recent Housebuilders’ Fire Protection Seminar, hosted

by SIG­, has revealed that there may be a knowledge gap amongst house-builders regarding the correct specification and installation of fire-stopping measures.

Hosted at the impressive Saddlers’ Hall in London, the event saw SIG joined by the Children’s Burns Trust, the Chief Fire

Officers Association and the Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) to speak about the threat of fire in residential

buildings and what this means for housebuilders. The topics covered included fire protection best practice, looking at the consequences of non-compliance and the need to have workers correctly assessed for competency in the installation of passive fire protection elements.

Taking the stage to open the event, Paul Gordon, Managing Director of SIG Distribution, asked the audience whether they believed their projects had appropriate fire-stopping measures, repeating the question once the event concluded. From the beginning to the end of the seminar, the number of attendees that agreed shifted from 72% to just 40%, showing the current knowledge gap in the industry.

Speaking on the results, Mr Gordon stated: “It’s clear that there is uncertainty in the field of passive fire protection. By hosting this unique seminar, with experts on hand to provide insight into the issue, SIG is highlighting the steps that need to be taken by the trade and will work alongside it to make the country’s homes safer than ever.”

8 www.sigdistribution.co.uk * fireprotection@sigplc.com ( 07768 316016

Rodger Allan joins GEZE UK’s automatic sales team Hollo-Bolt gains more approvals and is specified for LA skyscraper

Lindapter’s Hollo-Bolt recently gained the LARR (Los Angeles Research Report) and the full seismic approval from ICC-ES for use in all Seismic Design Categories (A to F).

Following these approvals, the CE Marked Hollo-Bolt was specified for Wilshire Grand Center, the tallest skyscraper in Western U.S. Lindapter’s Hollo-Bolts allowed a quick installation of circular, structural hollow sections, forming the atrium framework.

Avoiding drilling and welding saved the contractor time and money and gave a neat finish which complemented the architecturally exposed steel design.

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GEZE UK has reinforced its presence in Scotland with the appointment of Rodger Allan as Area Sales Manager for automatic door systems. Rodger has 13 years’ industry experience encompassing all aspects of the sales process, from inspiration through to specification, design and purchase negotiation. In his new role, Rodger will be responsible for building and developing relationships with clients and working with them to find the best solution for each project. He will work closely with fabrication companies as well architects, specifiers and contractors to recommend the right products from the company’s comprehensive range. * info.uk@geze.com

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Sally Offin joins Saracen as Procurement Manager

Saracen Interiors has appointed Sally Offin as Procurement Manager to oversee the procurement team and take on responsibility for all of the workplace consultant’s purchasing needs. With a strong background in sourcing and procurement, as well as time served as a Commercial Manager, Sally has worked for a number of blue chip names. An associate member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, her brief in her new role will be to work closely with Saracen’s project managers, estimators and quantity surveyors, as well as members of the supply chain, ensuring cost-effective labour and materials, while maintaining and developing key relationships. * enquiries@saraceninteriors.com

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EOS Facades’ combination of technical knowledge and innovation, together with manufacturing investment and expertise, will allow it to bring new solutions to create the buildings of tomorrow

Shaping the future of light gauge steel framing EOS Facades’ ambition to become the leading player in steel frame systems has recently been accelerated following the announcement that the company has been acquired by the prominent dry construction solutions company, Siniat. The acquisition follows a decade of developing the EOS Facades product and service range, underpinned by significant investment in state-of-the-art design and manufacturing technology.

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n the back of this news, EOS Facades has also announced that it has expanded its section capability with a significant investment in new roll forming machinery that has been specially commissioned and shipped halfway around the world to the manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Originating from New Zealand, this Howick machine, along with four others already owned by EOS Facades, currently roll sections ranging from 65, 100 and 150mm deep in a range of gauges from 1, 1.2 and 1.6mm thick.

Current outlets for the multi awardwinning EOS Facade sections include SFS infill walling and cladding markets plus the interior fit-out market.The introduction of the new machinery will significantly complement the range of sections available and this will expand EOS’ target market with a particular focus on the opportunity to supply the volumetric modular building industry with sections now ranging from 150 to 250mm deep and in gauge thicknesses ranging from 1.2 to 2mm.

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Sections provided by EOS Facades can be supplied in ‘loose’ bundles to make up in situ or as fully made up infill walling produced offsite as prefabricated cassettes or lattice beams for both roofing and flooring applications.The prefabricated elements can also be fitted with insulation, lining boards and decking boards or even assembled into volumetric modular space frames.

Steve Thompson, Managing Director of EOS Facades, said: “This is an investment for the future and for manufacturing jobs here in County Durham. EOS Facades is an ambitious company and the deal with Siniat will open up further opportunities for innovation to ensure we remain at the forefront of research and development and meet the exacting demands of the construction industry. Our combination of technical knowledge and innovation, together with manufacturing investment and expertise, will allow us to bring new solutions to create the buildings of tomorrow.”

To support the specification of light gauge steel sections, EOS Facades has

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launched a series of CPD factory tours for 2016 at its state-of-the-art facility in County Durham. These morning and afternoon tours are free to attend and will be taking place from the 28 to 29th September at 9.00am-12.00pm and 13.0016.00pm.

The tours, run by the EOS Facades’ technical team, will cover the following topics: Cold formed section technology SFS infill systems, stud and track, off-site preassembled panels/cassettes Non-load-bearing and load-bearing solutions Lattice joists and floor cassettes Design and value engineering Examples of best practice technology applications 8 www.eos-facades.co.uk * seant@eosuk.org ( 01325

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Reynaers provides facades for impressive Manchester development Manchester’s newest independent film hub and visual arts centre has an impressive facade using curtain wall products from Reynaers.

The external cladding and roofing work on Home, found on the city’s First Street, was carried out by Prater. This was made possible due to funding from the European Union for a joint venture between Ask Developments and Manchester City Council.

Overall, a total of 51 units of Reynaers’ curtain walling product CW 50 were installed, as well as Reynaers’ CS 68 aluminium windows.

Reynaers was consulted about the design of the facade in the prefabrication stages to help ensure the system allowed for building movement and live loads.

Rebecca Cope, Marketing Manager at Reynaers, said: “Lead architect Ernst ter Horst’s brief was to make the building of the highest quality and present itself as warm and welcoming. He was inspired by ideas of filling the building with life and the playful interaction with daylight.

“Our curtain walling system, Concept Wall 50, offered unlimited design freedom and maximum transparency for this build.”

Home needed a strong identity, so Netherlands-based architects Mecanoo International developed a dramatic cantilevering prow to mark the front entrance to the building and shelter an external cafe terrace. The building’s triangular shape combined with soft, curved corners sets it apart from the adjacent developments, with its elevations articulated to protect against solar gain.

Ian McHale, Project Manager at Prater, said: “We chose Reynaers because of the vast experience it has with bespoke high-end, complex commercial projects, as well as the team’s outstanding product knowledge and expertise.”

8 www.reynaers.co.uk * reynaersltd@reynaers.com ( 0121 421 1999

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Building Elements All connections must be designed to effectively transfer the imposed loads. The detailing must also address the aesthetic and serviceability requirements of the connection, for example limiting rotation in a moment-resisting connection.

The principles of timber connection design are: Transfer loads in compression bearing wherever possible Allow for dimensional changes in glulam due to potential in service moisture cycling Avoid the use of details that induce tension perpendicular to grain stresses in a member Avoid moisture entrapment at connections Do not place engineered timber in direct contact with masonry or concrete Design the joints to minimise eccentricity in the connection Minimise exposure of end grain

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B & K Structures specialises in the design, manufacture and delivery of optimised structures

The engineering edge B & K Structures is leading the way in delivering groundbreaking advances in structural solutions, constantly investing to stay ahead of the game in the latest digital technology and engineering developments. The company recognises that, as with every other industry, today’s digital age can help to bring construction innovation to places never before explored.

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Connections count Connection details are important for the structural performance and serviceability of hybrid timber structures. The larger sizes and longer spans, made possible with glulam components, make the detailing of connections even more critical. Connections must be designed to transfer loads without causing localised stress concentrations beyond the capacity of either the connector or the timber member.

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structure it is challenging to accommodate all of the loads, member sizes and geometry required for special connections.

Connections often need to be modified for reasons of constructability and economy during the detailing phase.Traditionally, the structural engineer establishes the strength and stiffness requirements for all connections on the design drawings, along with the preferred method of load transfer. Long-span truss connections must carry large forces while allowing for fabrication tolerances, yet still provide easy onsite assembly.

In some instances it may be necessary to use concealed or semi-concealed connections to achieve architectural requirements or to provide fire-resistance.

For beam-to-beam and beam-to-column connections, steel dowels or countersunk bolts can be concealed by recessing the head of the fastener and filling the recess with a glued-in timber plug or covered board.

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No strangers to the use of BIM, B & K Structures now applies this technology to every project.The use of BIM technology and CNC machines ensure enhanced accuracy so that structures are manufactured to exacting tolerances, assuring that the details of the connections are precise.

Enlightening Engineering – CPD B & K Structures specialises in the design, manufacture and delivery of optimised structures.The dedicated experts offer unrivalled information and technical data for all professions at each stage of the planning, design and construction process and can assist at every stage of the construction journey.

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Construction United welcomes Morgan Sindall partnership Construction United, a coalition of some of the construction industry’s key stakeholders which aims to change perceptions of the sector, has recently welcomed Morgan Sindall, a leading UK construction and regeneration group, to its ranks.

As one of the initiative’s partners, Morgan Sindall will support Construction United in its three key objectives: improving public perceptions of construction, encouraging young people to consider careers in the industry and maximising the health and wellbeing of its workers.

Formed in February 2016, Construction United has already gained the support of influential product distributor SIG, trade bodies including the Finishes and Interiors Sector (FIS), the Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) and leading skills certification scheme, CSCS. The initiative has also selected The Prince’s Trust, Crash and Time to Change

as its key charities, which it will support through fundraising activities which will be held from the 17th to the 23rd of October this year.

Speaking on its involvement in Construction United, Graham Edgell, Director of Sustainability and Procurement at Morgan Sindall, said: “Public perceptions of the industry have an effect on all of us and it’s vital to address this if the sector is going to continue to grow. At Morgan Sindall we have a longstanding dedication to both encouraging new talent through our apprenticeship/ graduate programmes and facilitating the development of our existing workforce.

“By becoming a Construction United partner we’re showing our support to the wider industry and supporting worthy charity causes by hosting and participating in October’s events and we encourage firms at all levels in the construction industry to do the same.”

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Recticel Insulation launches self-supporting roof system Take the Eurocell Modus S taste test

Slim sightlines and an authentic traditional appearance make Modus S – the latest addition to the Modus range of PVC-U windows from Eurocell – especially suitable for discerning tastes, premium properties and homes in conservation environments. The range is possible thanks to additional precision-engineered mouldings inside the frame which remove the need for diagonal corner welds – a distinctive characteristic of standard PVC-U windows. The mechanically jointed flush sash casement window looks like timber, but delivers the optimum energy efficiency and virtually maintenancefree performance benefits of PVC-U. If sceptical, then there’s no real substitute for experiencing the system in person.

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A next generation, self-supporting, room-in-a-roof system for pitched roofs has been launched by Recticel Insulation.

The innovative new product, L-Ments, comprises cable gap, breather membrane, counter battens and integral structural timber in one PIR insulation panel as a single, lightweight, cost-effective modular roofing element, making it exceptionally quick and easy to install.

The underlay felt is pre-glued and vapour permeable with self-adhesive overlaps, the counter battens are already fixed to the panel, the multilayered facings act as a vapour and air barrier on the inside, the PIR insulation core performs thermally to 0.023 W/mK and the timber stiffeners, incorporated within the PIR core, provide strength for self-support. * marketing.support@recticel.com

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PURe windows give new London residential tower a capital view

As well as offering its residents some of the most spectacular views across London, the energy-efficient windows of the latest phase of the Pavilions development in Tottenham Hale also provide some of the lowest U-values available thanks to Senior Architectural System’s new PURe system. Senior’s PURe windows are the first on the UK market to benefit from an enhanced thermal barrier, manufactured from expanded polyurethane foam (PUR) to give U-values as low as 0.71W/m2K when calculated as a commercial CEN standard window. PURe windows have been used alongside Senior’s thermally enhanced SPW600e door systems, which provide access to the apartments’ external balconies and terraces. * enquiries@sasmail.co.uk

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The MCIAT Professional Assessment

– a new qualifying route What is the MCIAT Professional Assessment?

The MCIAT Professional Assessment is a flexible, rigorous, robust and quality assured qualifying process, based on performance and designed to recognise the diversity of Architectural Technology.

Candidates must provide an in-depth critical analysis clearly summarising their professional experience. This should be a reflective report and should refer to challenges and successes encountered whilst working on projects and how any issues were resolved.

Applicants should also undertake a self-evaluation highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in relation to their area(s) of practice.

The Professional Assessment process is based on four core competencies: • Designing • Managing • Practising • Developing (self)

Who can apply for the MCIAT Professional Assessment?

Any applicant working in or on, for example, academia, general practice, component design, refurbishment, small residential projects, large commercial projects etc within Architectural Technology, should be able to apply their own experience to the Professional Assessment process, but they must hold one of the following membership grades: ACIAT, TCIAT or profile candidate.

Each application will be assessed on its merit. However, each applicant will need to demonstrate a sufficient level of knowledge and understanding and professional competence/experience in relation to their sphere/s of practice and demonstrate to the Institute they can meet the expectations of a Chartered Architectural Technologist, MCIAT.

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To apply for the Professional Assessment, applicants are required to pay £300 for the assessment of the application and the Professional Assessment Interview.

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