ThermoSpan Helps Transform Arsenal Building

Work on the conversion of one of the former armoury buildings within London's Woolwich Arsenal site has been completed using specialised glass products from HansenGlass for a variety of applications.

The Marlborough Building is amongst a number of Thameside apartment developments on the historic site being undertaken by Berkeley Homes.

This technically demanding sub-contract package was undertaken by Bedfordshire based Barretts of Aspley, working in close liaison with project architects, the A and Q Partnership.

The Contracts Manager for Barretts of Aspley, Mr Alan Hughes, comments: "This project involved both refurb and new build elements with an extra two floors being added on top of the existing building.

The original cast iron columns were shot blasted and primed before they were re-erected as part of the new structural steel gantry.

The gantries were fitted with new mild steel balusters and new columns were manufactured for the upper levels to support the roof structure.

This was before being fitted with the FortPlus toughened glass infill panels.

"We also enclosed the lifts and stair towers using steel framing and structural glazing.

We decided to use HansenGlass because of our previous experience of the company on other projects.

HansenGlass was also able to meet the tight lead times required and the project went very well." While an extra two levels were added to the property during the renovation, the four storey elevations have been visually unified by glazing the stair towers, liftshafts and balconies with ThermoSpan structural bolted units and FortPlus panels supplied by HansenGlass.

Rising some 12 metres up the face of The Marlborough Building, the stair towers are clad using single glazed ThermoSpan structural bolted glass panels.

The scope of the works also included the creation of a structural bolted glazed roof area where single ThermoSpan was again utilised but this time in a horizontal plane.

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