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Building Systems UK products used for new Kohler Mira distribution centre


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ohler Mira Group wished to create a world-leading distribution centre, where the building envelope would support in three key areas. The first of these areas was to ensure a comfortable working environment for its employees. The second was to create a protected space for the complex systems and processes handling thousands of products every day for Mira’s customers all over the world. Finally, in line with the company aim


to become a carbon neutral company by 2035, the design needed to deliver an energy efficient, sustainable building envelope with the capacity to generate renewable energy to power both the facilities and return unused electricity to the grid.


The solution Building Systems UK (A Tata Steel


Enterprise), worked with UMC Architects and were able to offer them a wide range of responsibly sourced, sustainable walling and roofing products from one single source UK manufacturer. This enabled the creation of an optimum building envelope solution to meet structural, energy efficiency and air tightness requirements, as well as offering a wide choice of aesthetic colours and finishes to create the visual impact required. Building Systems UK’s Trisobuild®


site


assembled roofing and cladding system was chosen with over 19,000 linear metres used for the roof and nearly 5,800 linear metres to form the walls. The Trisobuild®


system can


be tailored to meet the specific requirements of a project by offering design flexibility of internal and external profiles ranging from 19 mm to 46 mm deep. For this project, R32 and C32 profiles were chosen for most of the roof and wall profiles respectively and


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came with Colorcoat®


prefinished steel in


a range of colours. By specifying wall and roof products from Building Systems UK with Colorcoat®


were reassured by the supply of the 40- year Confidex®


products, Mira Showers Guarantee covering the


long-term performance of the finish. As the roof was going to be housing 1,560 solar panels, Trisobuild® Ultra®


with Colorcoat HPS200


Colorcoat HPS200 Ultra® included a Galvalloy®


pre-finished steel was chosen. The pre-finished steel


ultimate corrosion resistance and cut edge performance and, as the Confidex®


metallic coating for the guarantee


covered its use under a PV array, it was the perfect choice for the project.


Walling solution In addition to Trisobuild®


UK’s 70 mm thick insulated Trimapanel®


, Building Systems was


also selected for around 3,000 linear metres of wall on the project. These insulated, secret- fix wall-cladding panels are manufactured in accordance with BS EN 14509 ‘Self- Supporting Double Skin Metal Faced Insulating Panels – factory made products’ and allow quick and easy installation for fast build times. The secret fix joint design of the Trimapanel®


product allows the primary


fixings to be hidden from view enhancing the external aesthetics of the building. Trisobuild®


also comes with Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) approval to LPS 1181 part 1 for fire performance, helps to lower insurance premiums.


Liner profiles from Building Systems UK were also used on the project to provide an attractive and clean internal finish to the walls and ceiling. Over 13,000 linear metres of RL32 liner was specified and this was able to offer the additional benefit of acting as


working platform during the construction stage of the project.


By specifying all the roof and cladding products through BSUK, the architect and client could be confident that the walls and roof of the distribution centre would work together seamlessly to provide a robust external envelope. Trimapanel®


Both Trisobuild® and are third party certified for


quality, fire safety, acoustic and thermal performance, as well as air tightness and water penetration.


In addition, due to


Tata Steels commitment to sustainable practices, both products are also certified to BRE’s framework standard BES 6001, allowing maximum credits to be obtained in the responsible sourcing of materials section in BREEAM.


The details


Building Systems UK could also offer a wide range of flashing, ancillary items and fabricated corners to add the finishing touches to the distribution centre to deliver the desired aesthetic look of the project. The correct installation of all panels and ancillary products is vital and Building Systems UK supplied a raft of standard junction details as a step-by-step guide to ensure that all interfaces were correctly constructed. In this way the wall and roof panels could be joined correctly to form a building envelope for the distribution centre with low air permeability to help enhance its energy efficiency and lower its CO2


For extra reassurance the Kohler Mira distribution centre is covered by a Platinum


Plus 25-year building system


envelope guarantee. 01244 892199 www.tatasteeleurope.com


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