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News Release from: English Architectural Glazing | Subject: Specialist glazing and cladding
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Team on 11 July 2005
EAG helps build Brighton hospital.
One of the UK's leading specialist glazing and cladding firms, English Architectural Glazing, has been enlisted to help build a new high tech children's hospital in Brighton.
One of the UK's leading specialist glazing and cladding firms, English Architectural Glazing, has been enlisted to help build a new high tech children's hospital in Brighton Work is now well underway to build the new, state of the art Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children which will provide the best in medical care
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 15 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each pre-cast panel has a window aperture which has been pre-glazed with a timber/aluminium composite window, allowing the whole complete element to be craned off the lorry and onto the building as soon as it arrives on site.
Each of the 87 pre-cast concrete wall panels weighs around 11 tonnes.
Some have been cast flat but others are specially curved, giving the building its coned, boat-like shape.
They will all be stored in a special device nick-named the "Toast Rack" which allows the walls to be transported upright safely and easily.
EAG is also undertaking all the glazing in the building, including the large atrium roof on the top floor.
The floor, known as the Sky Park, will also have balustrade glazing surrounding it allowing those children well enough to enjoy some exercise, sunshine and fresh sea air.
Simon Gladwin, EAG's Managing Director, said: "As this is a PFI scheme we have been working in partnership developing the design with Kajima Europe and their architects from day one".
"The whole team has seen the benefit of this approach and of EAG undertaking the total envelope, so we are responsible for the complex interfaces between the many cladding types".
"With ambulance access required around the site 24/7 this is a particularly challenging build, requiring maximum off-site pre-fabrication of large cladding elements and minimum static access equipment on the facades themselves".
"This approach also permits rapid closing-in of the building to a watertight stage allowing internal fit out works to commence at the earliest possible stage".
The new facility will replace the outdated Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in Dyke Road, Brighton.
The new building has been specially designed by Kajima Construction Europe to recognise not only its focus on children but also the fact it will be sited just half a mile from the sea.
Once completed it will provide 100 beds in a mix of four bed and single bed wards all with en suite facilities as well as three operating theatres, diagnostic and treatment facilities, an intensive care unit, a cancer day care centre, parent accommodation and children's play areas.
The hospital is expected to be completed by January 2007.
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