APPOINTMENTS & NEWS; PROJECT REPORT: HEALTHCARE BUILD & DESIGN
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Heritage tiling expertise gives Pontcanna Tiling a TTA Award win
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ontcanna (Victorian) Tiling & Restoration of Cardiff have had their expertise in heritage tiling
recognized at the recent Tile Association Awards, where they won the top Award for Best Heritage Project. The company has worked on many
heritage projects, a sector in which it has established a reputation extending far beyond its local area. The TTA Award relates to the company’s work on the Chancel and Altar of St Dingat’s Church in New Tredegar, 20 miles North of Cardiff. This has been a renowned conservation project, and Pontcanna was called in by the main conservation company Taliesin Conservation Ltd to provides specialist assistance on the tiling elements of the job. Pontcanna were asked to put together a
plan for restoring the geometric floors in the church, which comprises a chancel and single-aisled navel under a continuous ridge, built in 1892/3 to designs of Seddon &
the cost of replacing the encaustic tiles would have been prohibitive, so Pontcanna’s plan was to salvage and remachine all the tiles on an individual basis, a painstaking process, requiring great patience to avoid the tiles blistering. Despite the poor base quality and the fact that many of the tiles had become stuck to the neighbouring ones, they salvaged 99 per cent intact. The whole project was delivered seven
Carter, with the south aisle added by them in 1899. The Six levels of the Altar and Chancel comprised 229 Ruabon glazed encaustic 4in and 3in square tiles in six different patterns. The base on which they and 3,000 plain tiles were originally laid, had been eroded by salts after being buried beneath carpet for decades. Although the intention of the project was to restore the floors to their original design,
Metal Technology facade for a ‘diamond’ finish
The former Thales site in the Gatwick Diamond area of Crawley has been transformed into a £19 million office development. The offices, which have been let by South East Coast Ambulance Service, feature Metal Technology’s System 17 capped high-rise curtain walling in conjunction with System 5-20D Hi+ thermal doors. SEC Ambulance Chief Executive Daren Mochrie said: “We’re delighted staff are now working in the new HQ and EOC. The building provides the Trust with modern, fit-for-purpose premises.” System 17 offers a diverse range of profiles engineered to provide not only impressive ascetics but full structural integrity with high levels of weather performance and thermal enhancement, delivering design flexibility to any application. System 5-20D Hi+ doors are designed to integrate perfectly into the facade design and feature bespoke polyamide thermal break technology for superior thermal performance while maintaining high levels of weather performance and security enhancement. Client, Surrey County Council, has heralded the project as an exemplar for developing revenue streams from brownfield development.
028 9448 7777
www.metaltechnology.com Design a Brighter Future
VELUX is holding a series of Design a Brighter Future Breakfast Events for construction professionals. Attendees will gain an insight into how VELUX is championing the potential of daylight and ventilation and how it can transform healthcare outcomes. Each event will include keynote speakers
who will be sharing their vision of how natural light and ventilation can transform lives in the built environment. The events are taking place at Belfast (11 Sep), London (18 Sep), Birmingham (23 Oct), Glasgow (7 Nov) and Edinburgh (21 Nov). Tickets are free. Please visit
Eventbrite.co.uk and search for “VELUX”.
www.velux.co.uk Leighton Hospital receives a facelift
Leighton Hospital is being updated with 104 new windows from PVC-U manufacturer Profile 22. David Jackson, Managing Director of Bolton based Astra Windows said: “We’ve been using Profile 22 products since 1989 because they’re great to install and our clients are always happy with the way they look and perform.” Dominic Gregory, Contracts Manager at
Truline, said: “The new windows not only provide better functionality, but will also greatly enhance the thermal performance of the building, saving the client money on its heating bills, as well as providing improved aesthetics for many years to come.”
01952 290 910
www.profile22.co.uk
days ahead of schedule to a vastly reduced budget and to an extremely high quality. This enabled the conservation contractors to complete their programme of works and to hand the Church back in time for its festivity calendar. Pontcanna’s other work has included a
large number of commercial and domestic projects in and around Cardiff, and also the rest of the UK and even the occasional job overseas.
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