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News Release from: Clark-Drain | Subject: Bespoke fabrication service
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 November 2005
Clark Drain provide access to
sub-station
Clark-Drain demonstrate the versatility of its bespoke fabrication service.
The multi million pound transformation of Baskerville House - one of Birmingham's most prominent landmark buildings - into a unique showcase office scheme for the City has given Clark-Drain the opportunity to demonstrate the versatility of its bespoke fabrication service Plans to construct a car parking deck in the Lower Ground Floor, above an existing Central Networks substation in the basement, created onerous access requirements
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 18 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The main contractor - Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects, acting on behalf of the developer - Targetfollow , needed a supplier able to produce a pair of removable access covers large enough to permit new transformers to be lowered into the basement if a breakdown occurred.
Remarkably Clark-Drain designed, fabricated and galvanised the 16 component covers in just over a fortnight.
The Project Manager for Alfred McAlpine, Mr Barry Harris, comments: "I first used Clark-Drain's special fabrications service for a similar situation on our contract at Cathedral Court in Birmingham, back in 2002, and was very pleased with the way they handled the task." Here again Clark-Drain were given the basic outline dimensions together with the loadings.
The covers are being built into the car park floor where spaces for around 20 vehicles are being created.
Hopefully they will never have to be used, but the Central Networks will have the facility to be able to replace the transformers in their sub-station or the client sub-station if necessary.
The main frames measuring 3220 x 2808 mm and 3220 x 2864 mm have been set into the concrete and are in-filled with a grid of inverted steel T-beams.
These then carry intermediate beam sections and the 16 individual lids into which concrete and then screed will be cast to match the cross-falls of the car park deck.
Clark-Drain is able to design and manufacture special access covers to these proportions, and supply them on short lead times, dependent on specification. Request a free brochure from Clark-Drain ...
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