NEW DEVELOPMENTS 53 Cast iron drainage on Europe’s
highest building? It’s no tall story CAST IRON NO LONGER HAS TO BE THE PRESERVE OF HERITAGE PROJECTS WITH MAJOR DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ENABLING THE ELEGANT AND DURABLE MATERIAL TO BE APPLIED TO SLEEK, COMPLEX AND EVEN MAMMOTH MODERN BUILDINGS.
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argreaves, one of the UK’s oldest traditional cast-iron manufacturers, has led the way in the development of an innovative lightweight cast iron drainage system, Halifax, which is now being used in what will be Europe’s tallest building.
The Halifax-based company, a leading name in Yorkshire cast iron manufacturing for more than 100 years, is supplying 96 tonnes of internal cast iron rainwater and drainage systems for the futuristic Federation Tower in Moscow.
Distinctive for its curved shape and central spire, the £305million, 87-storey building is 340 metres (448m including its spire) high, dwarfing Europe’s other skyscrapers, including Frankfurt’s 260m Commerzbank Tower and the 330m Eiffel Tower.
Hargreaves has supplied some 5.2km of rainwater and drainage equipment from its socketless soil and drainage system, which feature a unique time-saving single steel coupling, for phase one of the build. The tower will be completed and ready for use some time next year.
The Halifax Soil and Drain system conforms to BS EN 877 and above ground is BBA approved. All Hargreaves’ traditional cast iron rainwater and soil products are manufactured to BS460 standard for rainwater goods and BS416 for soil goods.
The Halifax system was designed specifically for internal soil and rainwater disposal in the refurbishment and new build of modern offices, apartment blocks, offices, hotels, hospitals, schools, prisons and even car parks.
The Halifax system offers significant labour savings, a major consideration for the construction industry – which is under increasing pressure to seek out off-site construction techniques and prefabricated
products to ease both cost and logistics, particularly when managing construction projects in busy metropolises.
The system features socketless jointing techniques and can be fitted horizontally and vertically and is finished in a two-part epoxy coating: red/brown for above the ground applications and grey for below ground.
Of the Federation Tower, Sergei Glukharev, Director of Halifax Russia Limited, said: “The Halifax system was chosen for its quality, versatility and speed of installation. It has the major benefit of allowing pipeline installation to begin from any point and in any direction within a building and this provides major value with a building of this size and the single-coupling system reduces the risk of mistakes during installation.
“One of the major benefits of using a cast iron system such as Halifax is the low fire risk. By Russian law, any building higher than 75m must install a cast iron drainage system. The Halifax system also offers noise reduction characteristics, important since sewerage has to be channelled from the eighty-seventh floor to below-basement level.”
Federation Tower’s Russian developer, Mirax Group, says the complex, and a neighbouring 53-storey tower, have state-of-the art design features designed to protect them against a 9/11 style attack and withstand fire for 10 hours. The Federation Tower contract confirms Hargreaves growing hold on the Russian market. The company, which supplied the cast iron drainage for the renovation of the Bolshoi Theatre (home, amongst others, of the Bolshoi Ballet) and this project is finished.
MD MICHAEL HINCHLIFFE SAID: “Cast iron was recognised as a superior building product for the significant benefits it offers in terms of greater strength and durability; low maintenance; cost effectiveness; low noise in operation and fire resistance. But all too often it was seen as a prestige material for heritage projects. We wanted to offer an adaptable alternative that could bring the benefits of cast iron into modern buildings.”
Now, cast iron is now scoring architects, specifiers and project managers much coveted ‘green building’ points. One hundred per cent recyclable at the end of their useful life and with a lifespan of at least 100 years, cast iron is becoming the preferred option in many buildings where sustainability features high on the list of client priorities.
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