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News Release from: Kawneer UK | Subject: Glazed building facade
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2007
Life is a BREEAM with Kawneer curtain
walling
When architects needed a very good BREEAM rating for a new office block that required a striking glazed building facade, only Kawneer's curtain walling and structural glazing would do.
The seven-storey building on the city's North Street uses Kawneer's dry-jointed curtain walling over most of the elevations, complemented by structural silicone glazing, a range of windows with polyamide thermal breaks which offer exceptional thermal performance, and narrow-style doors The brief was to build six storeys of office space totalling 57,000ft for Land Securities Trillium to lease to the Department of Work and Pensions (JobCentre Plus) with a 4,000ft commercial unit at street level owned initially by Sutton Harbour Holdings and now by Wichford Alpha
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Michael Board of architects Lacey Hickie Caley said they specified Kawneer "because of the use of their structural silicone glazing with a curtain walling system and because Kier Western selected SIAC as their specialist contractor".
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The curtain walling, silicone glazing, windows and doors, which interact with stone and metal rainscreen panels and through-colour render, were all supplied in metallic grey and installed by Kawneer-approved installer SIAC with a brise soleil system.
"A place of work should provide a lot of natural light while still providing a comfortable working environment".
"The building was also intended to look like a glass block".
"We selected Kawneer curtain walling as we felt this achieved these aspects".
"A large amount of this building is curtain walling so it has a significant impact on the design of this building," said Michael Board at LHC who have used Kawneer curtain walling before on several buildings, including Tamar Science Park and Cattedown Extra Care, both in Plymouth".
"The location of the building posed a number of logistical challenges for SIAC, with busy roads around all sides of the site".
Peter Cochin, director of SIAC, said: "We effectively only had the footprint of the building as our working area.
There were no site storage facilities and access for deliveries was restricted to off-peak times only". Request a free brochure from Kawneer UK ...
"However, we worked closely with Kier and overcame these issues by an effective programme of just-in-time deliveries to site which optimised the available space and access options to ensure the installation was completed on time.".
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