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News Release from: Lindapter | Subject: Lindapter Hollo-Bolts
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2008
Bees installed on worlds highest
apartment block
Lindapter Hollo-Bolts helped install the bees sculpture by Richard Stringer, the latest spectacular addition to the Eureka tower in Melbourne, Australia.
How do you persuade a swarm of giant golden bees to make their home on the world's tallest residential building and not simply buzz off when they feel like it? The answer, according to the contractor responsible for mounting the installation art is Lindapter Hollo-Bolts
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 300-metre high Eureka tower dominates the Southbank area of Melbourne, Australia, and the bees - the work of sculptor Richard Stringer - are the latest spectacular addition to the facade.
Aesthetics are everything, as far as this prestige, 92-floor apartment block is concerned.
The contractor needed a means of securing the bees that would be unobtrusive as well as tough.
Lindapter Hollo-Bolts fitted the bill perfectly: the ingenious patented expansion bolt design provided a simple solution for attaching to the hollow-section structural steelwork behind the facade - the bees' knees of fixings, you might say.
Lindapter's Scott Brook notes: "The space behind the facade is quite cramped".
"Welding the mounts into place would have been difficult".
"Hollo-Bolts allowed the contractor to fix them in place easily, working just on the exposed face of the steelwork".
The Lindapter Hollo-Bolt is an expansion bolt method of securing to square, rectangular or circular hollow section steel, or to conventional steelwork where access is available from one side only.
Awarded the Design Council's Millennium Products status for innovation in connecting to hollow section, the Hollo-Bolt also has third party endorsements from Corus and the UK's Steel Construction Institute.
Hollo-Bolt offers a tremendous reduction in installation time and costs over traditional methods, as well as giving specifiers absolute confidence through guaranteed loads with a built in factor of safety.
For aggressive environments, the Hollo-Bolt comes with JS500 protection as standard and is available in hot-dip galvanised or stainless steel versions if the application demands.
M16 and M20 sizes feature a collapse mechanism to maximise clamping force and enable use as a primary connection, and are the only expansion bolts to be featured in the UK's 'Green Book'.*.
*'Joints in Steel Construction - Simple Connections' - published by the SCI and BCSA.
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