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News Release from: Jones of Oswestry | Subject: Decorative channel
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2008
Decorative channels light up Manchester
More than 420 linear metres of decorative channel from Jones of Oswestry have been installed as part of landscape enhancements to Exchange Square in Manchester.
Manchester City Council specified the specially designed channels to provide a decorative border to repaved service trenches running across the square As well as designing and manufacturing the high quality 125mm wide galvanised steel channels, Jones of Oswestry carried out a site survey and installed the products under its 'Total Service' survey-to-site-fitting service
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Some 235 blue LEDs have been fitted in purpose-made apertures in the channels to enhance the visual connection from the Square, across Corporation Street to the extended Arndale shopping centre.
Luxcrete (concrete) blocks within the trench runs have been replaced with granite setts to complement the natural stone in the rest of the square.
Continuity of the setts over the trenches is maintained through 23 four-leaf recessed Suprabloc access covers measuring 945mm by 945mm overall, and four single leaf 450mm by 450mm Suprabloc, also from Jones of Oswestry.
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