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Building, Maintenance, Refurbishment & Grounds
Knauf providers of nailsea bsf drywalls
H
igh performance walls and ceilings featuring
plasterboard and related systems from Knauf
Drywall helped create a quality learning
environment in a newly built secondary school in
north Somerset. The £29 million One School
Pathfinder project, part of the BSF programme,
gives Nailsea School attractive and functional new
surroundings for its role as a technology and
media arts college, and benchmarks future BSF
projects in the county. Knauf Drywall’s systems,
installed by Optimum Drywall, set acoustic – and
some aesthetic – standards for the new school.
sound reduction between general teaching areas,
Futia aids
The systems sourced through Sheffield
as required by Building Bulletin 93. In wet areas,
Insulations’ nearby Avonmouth branch, Optimum
eg. changing room showers, ceramic tiles are
Drywall installed floor-to-soffit walls between
mounted on Knauf Aquapanel Tile Backer Board.
building schools
teaching rooms, consisting of 70mm Knauf ‘C’
This incredibly strong 12.5mm fibre reinforced
Studs at 600mm centres, with two layers of
cement board is used like plasterboard and is
15mm Knauf Soundshield high performance
for the future
designed especially for wet areas – where it
plasterboard on either side and 25mm Knauf
supports tiling up to 50kg/m2.
Crown Partition Roll in the voids. This
S
chool surroundings influence children’s
construction, nominally 130mm before finishes,
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academic performance and their personal
comfortably meets the 45dB (DnTw) airborne
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sense of well-being. Futia from The
Consortium, the award-winning independent
supplier to schools, provides a one-stop shop
service for the individual finishing touches.
The Consortium has supplied over £5 million
worth of storage furniture, chairs, computer
tables and pods, specially designed lunchtime
seats, playground equipment and bike racks.
Teaching methods may have changed over
the years but in many establishments the same
old chairs, tables and infrastructure remains.
Futia has shown how major refurbishment
projects can benefit from simple improvements Goat hair carpet receives
such as effective storage, display boards and
comfortable, supportive seating.
sustainable award
Futia offers project management from initial
design concept to sourcing hard to find
products from over 400 approved suppliers,
T
he highest BREEAM rating for carpets has recently been awarded to international Irish
manufacturer Tretford. Their unique cord carpet has been awarded an A+ rating, for retail
through to delivery and installation, allowing
and leisure environments and an A rating which covers the average service life of 10 years in
schools to focus on teaching pupils.
heavy duty environments, such as schools.
The Consortium’s Chief Executive Melanie
The carpet’s innovative construction, comprising up to 80% goat hair with 100% jute
Teal said: “The response to Futia from schools
backing, has the lowest environmental impact and makes a maximum contribution to overall
has already been very positive. We work in
performance of a school’s green standard. It also has positive influence on the design and
partnership with architects and construction
management, helping to reduce running costs while improving leaning and pupil well-being.
companies supported by the same committed,
This confirms the reason why Tretford carpet is so popular and cost effective in the education
vibrant and innovative service ethic that has
sector. For example, over 3000sqm of carpet tiles have recently been installed at Newcastle’s
made The Consortium a success.”
Northumbria University (image). The carpet is available in 48 colours in roll and 35 colours in tile.
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u08454 378737 uwww.futia.co.uk
Dalmuir court residents choose Sarnafil
S
arnafil is celebrating the completion of a green With no naked flames or hot bonding the
roof with a twist – the single ply specialist’s residents could remain in-situ throughout the
distinctive Patina Green coloured membrane now works. Scottish Sarnafil registered contractor Miller
crowns a 15-storey block in Dalmuir, Scotland. Roofing was also required to install the new roof
Sarnafil’s single ply system not only met the within a tight timeframe. As the company’s
client’s practical requirements to reduce the carbon managing director Alan Hilditch recalls: “After the
emissions from old building stock, but also the original roof was stripped it was immediately sealed
project’s aesthetic requirements. with a self adhesive SarnaVap 5000E SA vapour
A total of 100sq m of cold applied S327-15EL control layer, which provided a quickly-laid, instant
membrane in Patina Green was used on the main waterproof seal. The roof was insulated with the
roof and plant room walls to give the roof its Sarnafil guaranteed roof insulation which, in
unique aged copper appearance, with an additional conjunction with an insulated render system to the
100sq m of membrane in Light Grey installed on walls of the block, gives the building a vastly
the plant room roof. To complete the main roof, improved thermal performance.”
300sq m of G410-15EL membrane in Light Grey
was also installed. u01603 748985 uwww.sarnafil.co.uk
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