WHAT’S NEW? EYEWEAR GETS
ADVANCED PROTECTION An intelligent fire system from global leader Advanced is protecting the headquarters of Luxottica, a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of fashion, luxury, sports and performance eyewear.
Founded in 1961, Luxottica Group distributes and produces eyewear for almost every major eyewear brand including Armani, Burberry, Bulgari, Chanel, D&G, DKNY, Oakley, Paul Smith, Versace and many more. Advanced’s MxPro 5 fire panels have been chosen to protect the company’s new HQ building in the centre of Milan.
The contract for supplying the panels was awarded to the team at Firetech, who specified Advanced’s MxPro panels. Stefano Gatti, MD of Firetech, said: “We needed a system
KEMPER HITS THE RIGHT NOTE AT YEHUDI
MENUHIN SCHOOL Cold-applied liquid waterproofing specialist, Kemper System, has provided the warm roof system for a new ‘practice house’ at Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey as part of a green roof build up.
that not only covered office space, but also technical areas and parking facilities. Among the stand-out features of the Advanced’s system is the ease of installation, configuration and commissioning. We can set up and manage a large system with complicated cause and effect, covering all areas of a site very easily.”
MxPro panels can be used in single loop, single panel format or easily configured into high speed, 200 panel networks covering huge areas and tens of thousands of field devices. Three MxPro 5, four-loop panels have been installed in the Luxottica complex in a 19” floor standing rack and are connected in a fault-tolerant network, which includes repeater panels. An iP Gateway was installed so that the entire network can be monitored and controlled remotely via a web browser.
The MxPro 5 is Advanced’s highest
Named after the celebrated violin virtuoso that founded it, Yehudi Menuhin School is a world famous school for students of classical music, based in a former mansion in picturesque semi-rural grounds.
The new practice house is a 600m2 ,
single storey development designed by Brighton-based architectural practice, Miller Bourne, providing 11 acoustically-controlled practice studios, along with a teaching area, library, offices and a landscaped entrance for outdoor performances.
The contemporary building has been designed to complement its natural surroundings with a green roof planted to reflect the flora and fauna of the local area and roof lights to maximise natural light. Kemper System’s Stratex warm roof system has been installed beneath the green roof medium, ensuring excellent thermal performance, waterproofing protection and root resistance.
Roofing contractor, Imperial Contracting Limited, installed the warm roof on behalf of main contractor, Sunninghill Construction, applying a primer to the plywood substrate before laying
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performance analogue panel, fully compliant with EN54 Parts 2, 4 and 13, and backed up with Advanced’s renowned customer care and technical support.
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a Kempershield cold-applied, self- adhesive vapour control layer (VCL).
The installation team then fitted the standard 150mm Kempertherm insulation board, cutting various boards to size on site to fit the exact dimensions of the roof, including the apertures for the roof lights, and fixing it to the substrate using Kemperfix adhesive.
With the insulation in place and fully bonded to the substrate, Imperial Contracting Limited used Kemper System’s D Primer to prepare the surface before applying Kemperol V210 cold-applied liquid membrane in a single wet-on-wet process comprising resin, 200g flexible reinforcement fleece and more resin.
Imperial Contracting then installed the green roof elements.
Aleksandrs Zigalovs at Miller Bourne said: “We had used the same combination of Kempertherm insulation and Kemperol cold-applied liquid membrane on other projects so we were confident it was the right approach for this scheme and the Kemper System team worked with us to develop the optimum technical specification for the roof.”
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