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ALTRO HELPS SLASH COST AT CARDIFF SCHOOL A
ltro XpressLayTM safety flooring
has provided a significant time and cost saving solution in
the construction of the new St Teilo’s Church in Wales High School in Cardiff. The new £26 million
school was designed by architects Austin- Smith: Lord. It is a contemporary design, with classrooms clustered in blocks off a main central ‘street’. Kate Smith, designer at Austin- Smith: Lord, said: “Due to the huge length of space of the school’s main street, the floor construction included many movement joints, which had a knock on effect to the movement requirements of the floor finish. “The main contractor, Willmot Dixon,
suggested that we look at Altro XpressLay as it can be laid straight to slab with no
DPM and no fixing joints - creating a huge time and cost saving for the project.. “In addition to the main ‘street’, we specified Altro XpressLay for break-out areas. We used a variety of different wedge- shaped colours of the product to delineate different areas. It looks very striking.” Altro XpressLay is the world’s first adhesive- free, truly sustainable safety floor. It is installed
using a tape system instead of adhesive, so can be installed without
a surface DPM. It can be easily removed post-installation, re-used elsewhere and then at the end of its life be recycled. Like all Altro safety flooring products,
Altro XpressLay offers sustained slip resistance for the lifetime of the product, keeping your risk of a slip or fall to just one in a million.
The Altro products at St Teilo’s were
installed by CS Flooring, in Cardiff. Owner Anthony Mynet said: “It was a perfect example of how the product can be used to cut costs and accelerate a building programme without sacrificing quality, longevity or aesthetics. “The beauty of installing Altro
XpressLay is that it needs no adhesive, just its own weight alone, plus some strategically placed fixing tape. It’s quick, easy and clean. Individual sections can easily be lifted and replaced if required, rather than having to take up the whole floor and re-adhere.” Chris Woodruff, principal surveyor
at main contractor Willmot Dixon, commented on the use of Altro XpressLay: “It has proved to be a quality product that saved us time and cost on a project where we were able to provide beterment on the delivery programme.” B4E
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