Halfen HIT avoids cold bridging

Reinforced concrete balconies, installed using Halfen's HIT insulated balcony connection systems, are prominent features of a new high quality mixed use residential and commercial building.

Reinforced concrete balconies, installed using Halfen's HIT insulated balcony connection systems, are prominent features of a new high quality mixed use residential and commercial building at 82-96 Old Kent Road in south-east London.

A joint development of London and Quadrant Housing Trust, Tower Homes and Ujima Housing Association, the first phase of this two-phase project was designed by Alan Camp Architects with Gyoury Self Partnership as engineers and Mount Anvil Construction as main contractors.

The nine-storey reinforced concrete-framed building comprises a fully glazed ground floor fronting the Old Kent Road with first and second storeys clad in grey terra cotta rainscreen cladding to give the building a strong modern aesthetic.

The upper floors are a predominantly aluminium glazed and framed structure, with colour being used on the balconies to create and exciting, vibrant and modern facade.

With HIT, the factory-installed reinforcement passes through a continuous 80 mm thickness of polystyrene insulation, allowing structural connections to be made between external concrete balconies and internal floor slabs without interrupting the continuous thermal insulation of the external wall.

It was specified by the engineers as the "neatest and simplest way of overcoming cold bridging".

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