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Schöck and Thorp team up for HOOLA precast balconies
London, gateway to the Royal Victoria Docks area. The £80m development has transformed a brownfield site into two rippling 23 and 24 storey glass towers; offering 360 apartments with a mix of studios, one, two and three-bedroom units. The buildings are super-insulated, with the concrete frame acting as a heat sink – absorbing heat on warm days and releasing it back into apartments when it cools. Unsurprisingly, a critical design require- ment was the avoidance of any risk of thermal bridging at the many concrete-to-concrete balcony connectivity points. Highly efficient structural thermal breaks were required throughout and the preferred solution was the Schöck Isokorb type K for cantilever balconies. With its innovative HTE pressure-bearing module, the unit provides extremely high thermal resistance and transfers bending
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new twin tower glass-clad landmark building – the 'HOOLA' – now dominates Tidal Basin Road in East
moment, stress and shear forces. The balconies on the HOOLA are all precast
in a reconstituted Portland Stone Concrete and thermal break suppliers Schöck had to work closely with specialists Thorp Precast of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Luke Smerdon-White, Technical Director at Thorp: “The balcony detailing was complex. We had to design, manufacture and deliver 1410 precast concrete balcony sections, which than had to be cast integrally with the in-situ concrete structure. The design and detailing coordination was taken from the 2D consultant’s information, which we converted into 3D Tekla modelling”. In addition to concrete-to-concrete capability, the Schöck Isokorb range provides totally verifiable solutions for concrete-to-steel, steel-to-steel – and even a maintenance free alternative to wrapped parapets. All solutions meet full compliance with the relevant UK building regulations and offer BBA Certification and LABC Registration. The
requirement that the temperature factor used to indicate condensation risk (the fRsi value), in residential buildings, must be equal to or greater than 0.75 is comfortably met by incorporating the Isokorb. It also complies with the Government Standard Assessment
Procedure, SAP 2012, concerning CO2 emissions from buildings and respectively heat losses through non-repeating thermal bridges.
01865 290 890
www.schoeck.co.uk Senior shines light on buried treasures
After being confined to darkness for decades, the once abandoned Waverley Arches in Edinburgh have been given a new lease of life – and copious amounts of daylight – thanks to an ambitious restoration programme and new glazing package from Senior Architectural Systems.
The once boarded up arches have been opened up by the use of Senior’s extensive range of aluminium glazing solutions. Each of the units feature Senior’s thermally enhanced SF52 aluminium curtain walling, SPW600e windows and robust SD commercial doors.
info@seniorarchitectural.co.uk Guides to architectural solutions
Advice on specifying framing and sliding solutions for architectural glazing is contained within two new brochures from leading aluminium systems supplier Kawneer. Well- illustrated throughout, the new A4 brochures feature a wide range of product detail drawings and applications guidance as well as useful product selectors, product and performance data and project case studies. The 20-page framing systems brochure gives a complete overview of
Kawneer’s entire framing systems range. 01928 502500
www.kawneer.co.uk
A. Proctor Group sponsors project
The A. Proctor Group has co-sponsored an exciting new community project in Dalmarnock to work in collaboration with local children at Baltic Street Adventure Playground (BSAP) to construct a wikihouse in their playground. The timber frame building will provide the children with an indoor play area for when the weather restricts playing outside. Wraptite-SA airtight
membrane was donated by the A. Proctor Group to ensure that the wikihouse could be made weathertight and provides breathable water resistant protection for the timber structure.
01250 872261
www.proctorgroup.com Making a ripple in Reading
One Forbury Place in Reading is a speculative office development, owned by M&G Real Estate, which has a particularly distinctive exterior, thanks to a custom solar shading and screening solution, courtesy of Levolux. As a world-leading solar shading and screening specialist, Levolux was approached to design,
supply and install a custom solar shading solution, comprising a com- bination of horizontal and vertical twisted fins. Based on Levolux’s popular Infiniti Fin system, each series of horizontal Fins appears continuous, extending more than 55 metres across the building.
info@levolux.com
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