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News Release from: Kingspan Off-Site | Subject: Multibeam
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 April 2005
Multibeam checks out at Argos
Multibeam, the UK's best selling cladding support system, has been used to create one of the largest distribution centres for retail giant Argos.
Multibeam, the UK's best selling cladding support system, has been used to create one of the largest distribution centres for retail giant Argos The distribution centre, in Darlington, will serve Argos' entire store network and direct sales operations across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The size of the region required the retail company to specify the large - 72,816 sq.metre - centre.
Kingspan Metl-Con supplied the project with over 300 tonnes of Multibeam purlin and rail products to enable the building to be built quickly and to a high standard.
"Multibeam has been designed to provide both efficiency and simplicity at an extremely competitive cost".
"The high strength to weight ratios and long spanning properties of the purlins and cladding rails from Multibeam allowed the contractors to erect the structural framework for the cavernous distribution hub in only eight weeks," said Kingspan Metl-Con's Marketing Manager John Williams.
The Multibeam purlin system is designed to suit buildings with bay sizes up to 12m with either pitched, mansard, flat or curved roof constructions.
The rail systems accommodate cladding fixed either horizontally or vertically, and gives straighter cladding lines than any other system.
The structural steel erection phase of the Argos distribution centre project is being spearheaded by Atlas Ward Structures on behalf of main contractor Bowmer and Kirkland.
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