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News Release from: Palgrave Brown | Subject: Posi-Joists
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2008
Grand Designs for Palgrave Brown
Posi-Joists from Palgrave Brown have featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs TV show in a GBP725,000 project in Bristol known as the Sugar Cube house.
Martin Pease, a commercial architect, designed his 'sugar cube' open plan dream home for his wife Katherine, two children and two dogs, with everything in white The steel and timber frame project was completed on budget - land costs of GBP425,000 and build costs of GBP350,000 - and with a rapid build time of just under a month
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 25 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Unusually, due to the nature of the design, Posi-Joists were incorporated placed vertically as well as horizontally for the floor and roof support and Palgrave Brown designers assisted with the design and unusual application of the Posi-Joists.
Dave Atkins, product manager for Posi-Joist at Palgrave Brown, comments: "The Sugar Cube is a great project to demonstrate the product's versatility, and we are delighted that Palgrave Brown's design service was able to give the customer the design flexibility he wanted".
Exeter-based Westructure Timber Frame used Martin's ideas and design to produce detailed drawings and a CAD 3D image to take in the structural, environmental and conceptual requirements and specified Posi-Joists.
Peter Doman, managing director at Westructure, explains: "This was the first time we'd used Posi-Joists in vertical alignment".
"It meant we could have large ceilinged rooms as well as fulfil Martin's vision of wide open spaces".
The highly-insulated Sugar Cube four-bedroomed home is virtually all open plan, and half the ground floor space has double height ceilings.
To add to the light and spacious feel, the house also features a full height glass wall overlooking the garden.
The Posi-Joist system, available from Palgrave Brown, combines timber and a Posi-Strut steel web which means it can span far greater distances than alternative products.
Because the Posi-Joist also eliminates the need for load bearing intermediate walls it is ideal for a variety of internal room layouts, giving design flexibility, while its fixing surface makes for a truly quiet floor.
The Posi-Joist, which is both lightweight and strong, is easy to fit with trimmable ends and its open web design makes it ideal for discreetly installing services without the need for sawing gaps.
Palgrave Brown, with 17 national network sites, has Posi-Joist manufacturing capacity and Posi-Joist designers at its branches in Widnes, Yeovil and Boston, as well as a sales and central design office at the Nuneaton office.
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