building envelope
Quickly does it
WORK is underway on the largest sports hall in the UK and the second largest in Europe. Construction company Morgan Sindall secured the £8.1m contract with Ebbsfleet Community Sports Centre to build Mayesbrook Park Sports Arena in East London. Initially, it will be used as a training
venue by the official handball and wheelchair rugby teams for the Olympic Games.
Designed by LRK Associates, the
project features a 5,000sq m sports hall, a 1,000sq m gym and changing facilities. The building must be ready for the spring, so speed of installation for building envelope is critical. Euroclad’s Elite System 3 roof system, which utilises the SF500 secret fix profile installed as part of a fully tested and modelled system, was used. This built up system uses a non-fragile liner, allowing the roof to be decked out early in the programme. The roof sheets are rolled onsite at eaves level in one continuous sheet from eaves to eaves, and are quickly fitted together. A Linear Rainspan system was chosen for the walls; a rainscreen façade that uses the Rainspan panel from Eurobond as the backing-wall. This eliminates the need for most secondary steelwork, saving time and money by using a panel system spanning between the main columns. The system is then fixed directly to the Rainspan panels. The construction significantly reduces time onsite.
www.euroclad.com www.construction.morgansindall.com
The project features around 800 linear metres of glazing valued at more than £300,000
Window and curtain wall solution for Holiday Inn
HIGH performance window and curtain wall solutions have been installed at the £10m ‘next generation’ Holiday Inn Express Hotel in Sheffield. Located a few minutes’ walk from the city
centre, the eight storey, 161 bed hotel is the first of its kind in any major UK city. The limited-service hotel is fitted out to a higher specification than a standard Holiday Inn Express and features a spacious ground floor, along with redesigned bathrooms and bedrooms built around the group’s latest ergonomic layouts. Alusec UK installed Senior Architectural
Systems’ window and curtain wall solutions at the hotel, which features almost 200
windows fabricated from Senior’s SPW600 75mm thermally-broken internally-beaded system, selected for its BS6375 performance results for air permeability, water tightness and wind resistance. Senior’s SMR900 series curtain wall was specified for the ground floor to complement the building’s high weather resistance and thermal performance. SMR900 is a hollow box construction. The mullions are designed to run through for optimum strength and the transoms are front-loaded on site using a jointing method, all of which contributed to its specification.
www.alusec.co.uk
A durable solution was required for this busy sporting venue Easy on the eye
AN ALUMINIUM encasement system has solved the problem of unsightly exposed building structures at Durham County Cricket Club’s redevelopment of the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground. Chosen as the exterior finishing product
The roof and cladding system reduces time on site
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for the new function rooms opening in time for the 2011/12 season, the aluminium column casings from Contour Casings complement the clean lines of the Don Robson Pavilion.
As a major sporting and music venue, the Emirates ICG attracts visitors from all over the world. As well as providing an aesthetic solution to the exposed building structures, the casings are also robust to withstand the rigours of an outdoor application in a high traffic environment and require minimal lifetime maintenance.
www.countourcasings.co.uk
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