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EXTERNAL ENVELOPE


Crittall’s T60 windows meet Oxford challenge A


College, Oxford, illustrates how 21st Century environmental performance can be married seamlessly with traditional aesthetic requirements. Crittall’s


T60 thermally broken steel


windows make a major contribution to the Levine Building’s sustainability credentials. The new buildings have been designed


by ADAM Architecture in what is described as a restrained classical manner to augment the distinctive character of the surrounding conservation


area that includes listed structures. It is the first major building


project to have taken place at Trinity College for more than 50 years.


A theatre seating 200 people, study bedrooms


for students, teaching rooms,


kitchens and ancillary space have been created in the new three-storey building whose stone- faced elevations have been finished in honey coloured ashlar limestone to complement its heritage setting. The building also features a pitched, slate covered roof. The T60 windows are set within stone surrounds and finished in an attractive bronze coloured Duralife polyester powder coating. Many are fitted with trickle ventilation.


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new building in the grounds of historic Trinity


Triple glass is installed in the windows of the theatre auditorium for improved sound attenuation. T60 features an advanced high- density polyurethane isolator as a thermal barrier that together with double or triple glazing surpasses the requirements of current regulations. The cold formed steel profiles nevertheless retain Crittall’s hallmark slender sightlines that ensure maximum light ingress. The Levine Building project also features cold form doors and internal fire screens on ground and first floors.


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