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News Release from: SFS intec | Subject: SDK austenitic stainless steel fasteners
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2006
SFS intec fastens Catterick SLAM roof in
a hurry
On the SLAM project, permanent weather layer assembled by Corus Building Services uses SFS intec's SDK austenitic stainless steel fasteners.
Part of the Ministry of Defence's £1 billion Single Living Accommodation Modernisation (SLAM) project, Marne Barracks will provide on site living quarters for over 500 personnel at the Catterick Base, North Yorkshire The whole project utilises off-site construction techniques for speed of construction, with the permanent weather layer assembled nearby by Corus Building Services using SFS intec's SDK austenitic stainless steel fasteners
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As well as competitive prices and a firm specification supply chain, SFS intec delivers excellent service and technical back up on our projects with detailed development and testing work to make sure that the process was viable".
"The roof is assembled on the near-by runway at Catterick from 0.9mm Kalzip aluminium profile in single skin 100 sq.m".
"framed modules fastened with SFS intec fasteners".
"The living units, also manufactured off-site, are installed to a three-storey height and incorporate all insulation and vapour control layers under temporary weather protection." "We then crane the roof modules on to the units and fasten them with SFS fasteners to structural metalwork, creating a permanent weatherproof layer in a day rather than the 13 weeks required conventionally".
"The roof modules could equally well be constructed off-site, but the runway on site is very convenient." A total of 10 blocks, each comprising 54 single living units, are being constructed for the Marne Barracks, with eight 100 sq.m.
roof modules per block.
The high level walls are built from an insulated flat panel system, also fastened with SFS intec austenitic stainless steel fasteners, ensuring low thermal conductivity to comply with the latest Part L Building regulations, as well as providing high fastening and corrosion resistance performance.
The MoD's Single Living Accommodation Modernisation (SLAM) project covers bases across England and Wales and will improve the quality of life for personnel in Britain's armed services, with parallel projects under construction in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Gibraltar and the Falklands.
The Prime Contractor for the Marne Barracks, completed at the end of October 2005, was Debut Services, a joint venture between Bovis Lend Lease and Babcock Support Services Limited, which is managing the first five-year phase involving some 16,000 bed-spaces at over 50 bases.
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