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Schneider Electric
in turn enables the composite stage, allowing following trades to
element to be bolted into the start work sooner.
Schneider Electric has
structural steelwork frame. A secondary benefit of such
launched its new compact
Incidentally, the encasing of the sandwich panels is that they offer
HMI with a 3.9 inch
steel section with concrete better acoustic properties another
touchscreen in recognition
of the need for simple
inherently provides its area where Building Regulations
installation, integration and
fire protection. are helping the quality of life.
programming of ever
Precast sandwich panels may be Incidentally, it should also be
more complicated
more complex in their construction. noted that the precast wall panels
machines, yet at low cost.
For example, composite wall forming the external cladding of a The Magelis XBTRT511
panels have been produced with building may not include any has user configurable membrane keys; graphics with an extensive
an external facing of natural stone, insulation at all where the overall wall
symbols library (built into the application software); bar graphs, gauges,
cavity void, insulation and construction is designed to include
trend graphs, bitmaps and scrolling text; with up to 16mm high
reinforced concrete encased an insulated dry-lining system.
characters for easy reading. Up to 10 lines of 33 characters per screen
structural steel column section. The precast concrete element
can be accommodated with a touch grid on screen of 11 x 5 cells.
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Such panels were produced as need not be a wall cladding panel.
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storey height units with natural Buildings for the high-rise residential
Portland stone facings for a sector typically include a
Kitchen & Bathroom Show
London office building designed requirement for cantilevered
by Eric Parry Architects. balconies within their design.
Finding the time to keep up-to-date with the
Load-bearing sandwich panels For larger balconies, the precast
latest products, systems and services for
the kitchen and bathroom can be a
provide a strong, durable, energy units are produced and delivered to
difficult, costly and time consuming task.
efficient, fire-resistant wall system, site with projecting reinforcement
Fortunately, there is now a solution to this
at the same time minimising on-site bars to enable them to be
problem for retailers, developers, builders,
labour cost and speeding up incorporated into the structure as the
architects, designers and other specifiers,
insitu concrete floor slabs are who can now visit the Kitchen & Bathroom
poured. In these cases, the issue of Show from Friday 14 to Sunday 16
cold bridging is simply dealt with by
November 2008 at Sandown Park, Esher,
lining the top and soffit faces of the
Surrey. Scores of leading suppliers are
adjacent floor slab, thereby reducing
grouping together to display their vast array
the thermal bridging effect by
of latest innovations at the UK’s first
dedicated consumer exhibition for kitchen
extending the thermal gradient
and bathroom products and services.
sufficiently into the core of the
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building frame. For smaller
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balconies, the units may alternatively
include a proprietary connection
system designed with stainless steel
Grundfos Pumps
bars projecting through a thickness When Geoffrey Granter had a Grundfos
of insulation which acts as a thermal
Alpha2 fitted, he couldn’t believe the
break between the precast concrete
difference that this little pump could
balcony unit and the structural frame.
make. Geoffrey, who is the Managing
At the University of Nottingham’s
Director of the United House Group,
previously had a pump which was
Portland Hill Centre for Career
external to the boiler and found it too
Development, a technically
noisy - in fact he had trouble sleeping!
advanced precast concrete
Geoffrey commented that “It is now so
structure with integral sandwich
quiet that there is no problem setting the
panel cladding was adopted. timer for the morning, despite the boiler being directly beneath the
The structure is exposed and self bedroom. I always choose Grundfos because not only are they
finished, external units being cast
value for money but their products are extremely reliable.”
in a white reconstructed stone mix
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and internally in ordinary grey
Tel: 01525 775402
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concrete. Hardwall insulated
www.grundfos.co.uk
cladding panels with full-face
Thermomass insulation combined
Konstructa Hire
with composite fibre connecting
Konstructa Hire is celebrating continued
pins, minimises cold bridging.
growth with the appointment of a new
The beams and columns of the General Manager. David Griffiths joins
structural frame have been left the team from Portakabin, where he
exposed to maximise the thermal
managed the successful northwest Hire
capacity of the concrete, and
Centre network for 11 years. David
painted white to maximise light
replaces former incumbent General
levels, additionally contributing to
Manager Alan Paige who has retired.
David Griffiths, General Manager of
energy efficiency. Where feasible,
Konstructa Hire says: “I’m looking forward
construction. Deliveries to site are cladding was integrated with the
to playing a major part in the future
typically made on a just-in-time L-profiled edge beams.
success of the company. Konstructa Hire
basis with the precast panels Precast concrete cladding offers
has a unique offering and has quickly
craned directly to their respective almost limitless choice of shapes developed an excellent reputation in the
final fixing positions to achieve a and sizes, colours and textures. site accommodation market.”
weathertight enclosure at an early
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