CONTRACTS & PROJECTS Championship
winningworkwear World-renownedworkwearmanufacturer Dickies is celebrating the success of Celtic Speed’sGeorge Brewster in this year’s prestigious British Porsche Carrera Cup. Dickies sponsors the three-car Porsche team and, in an extremely tense finalmeeting at Silverstone,Georgewon the Pro-Am2 category in the penultimate race and then finished high enough in the day’s second race – the last in the 2011 championship – to secure the category title. “I’mtruly delighted for Celtic Speed and forGeorge on their success,” commented Dickies sales andmarketing director,MauriceMorton. “I knoweveryone at
Heating Cutty’s floors
WMS has secured a contract to supply and install underfloor heating to a new museum that is currently under construction around
Dickieswill joinme in congratulating themon taking the championshipwin and on a great season." Dickies supplies Celtic Speedwith all of itsworkwear. For more information visit
www.dickiesworkwear.com.
Transforming the Angel Building
the Cutty Sark at Greenwich dock. The £26 million project, which is due to open in the spring of 2012, will raise the 900 tonne ship three metres above a glass-roofed museum built underneath, allowing visitors to view the clipper’s uniquely shaped hull. Due to the unusual floor construction in the dry berth, the underfloor heating panels had to be specially designed byWMS. The raised floor, supported by pedestals, consists of large calcium sulphate boards with precision grooves to allow the underfloor heating pipework to be laid flush within each panel in preparation for laying the finished floor tiles. This bespoke system also achieves a very high maximum output of 100w/m2
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For more information call 01707 649922, or email
alan.p@wms-uk.com.
What a goal!
BisonManufacturing has been specified to provide its market leading pre-cast concrete products for a multi-million pound stadium development in Bangor,Wales.Working with main contractor,Watkin Jones, the order calls for Bison to manufacture and install six sets of its pre-cast concrete staircases as well as 81 terrace units and 40 concrete step blocks at the new home ofWelsh Premier League champions, Bangor City Football Club. Bison was selected as the project’s precast concrete supplier after it impressed Watkin Jones with its extensive portfolio of successful terrace stadia projects including Wembley Stadium.Watkin Jones’ Richard Owen commented: “Having previously
Roof healthcare
Crossgripwalkwaymatting,manufactured by Plastic Extruders Ltd, has recently been specified and installed by Burren& WhitakerConstruction Ltd over flat rooftops of
EpsomHospital.Crossgrip is designed as a very safe and easily loose laid solution for rooftops, gantries and high- levelwalkways, providing a slip resistant surface and protecting roofmembranes.
worked alongside Bison on a number of projects, we were very much aware of their expertise in stadia projects.” For more information call 01283 817500 or visit
www.bison.co.uk.
Signbox have helped contribute to the complete transformation of a former BT exchange into a striking, ultra-modern office complex – themulti award- winningAngel Building in London’s EC1. Inwhatwas an under-used site at the corner of St. John Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, development companyDerwent London have created a striking and contemporary complex comprising 260,000 square feet of high specification office spacewith a café, specially commissionedworks of art and large rooftop terraces affording spectacular views over London. Signboxwere nominated early on byAHMM, the appointed architects for the building, to complete all the ‘base’ build signs, including external, floor,wayfinding and emergency. This contractwas quickly followed upwith the appointment by Cancer Research UK, one of the earliest tenants to take up
residence.Nowfully implemented, theCancer Research signagework involved branding displays,wayfinding signage, large format impactwalls and extensive manifestation applications. For more information call 01784 438688, email
sales@signbox.co.uk or visit
www.signbox.co.uk.
According to the company, due to its flexible construction, themattingwill contour over uneven surfaces and imperfections and provide a permanent safewalkway for staff and
equipment.As thematting is raised 14mmby its underbar construction, Plastic Extruders says Crossgripwillmaintain an efficient and drier path over puddles and ponding. For more information call 01268 571116 or visit
www.crossgrip.com.
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