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Stunning solar powered Park & Ride goes green


on the outskirts of Leeds in West Yorkshire. Designed by Mott Macdonald in partnership with main contractor BAM Nuttall, the brand new Stourton Park & Ride heralds in a new era of clean, green public transport. The Park & Ride will help towards a


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net-zero carbon economy for the city by lowering carbon emissions, improving air quality, and reducing congestion. A photovoltaic solar canopy covers a third


of the site, which powers the terminal building, street lighting and vehicle charging points, and feeds excess electricity back into the local grid.The site provides 1,200 parking spaces along with 26 fast electric vehicle charging ports and four rapid chargers. Carewas taken to reduce the visual impact


of the site from all directions, and over 11,000 trees have been planted in and around the park & ride site with an impressive


reen-tech has made a significant contribution to the UK’s first fully solar powered Park & Ride facility


54:1 replacement ratio.Themain central area includes raised Corten steel planters, shrubs, hedges, specimen and evergreen trees to provide year-round coverage, creating a soft, open and welcoming environment.


Green-tech involvement: Green-tech has a good working relationship with both Mott MacDonald and BAM Nuttall, and supplied all the stakes and crossbars, canes, tree belting and blocks to support the trees in the central area. All Green-tech square-sawn softwood and machine round stakes are FSC Certified and available from stock. To protect the new perimeter planting


from browsing animals and the elements Green-tech supplied 6,000 recyclable tree and shrub shelters, 450 m2


of 100% recycled


jute Ecomatt mulch matting, as well as 275,000 litres of ornamental bark for the planters and beds. The Ecomatt allows air and water to pass through the layers while


suppressing weed growth and acting as valuable insulation around the root area. To ensure the best chance of successful


establishment, Green-tech supplied 200,000 litres of soil improver to help optimise the structure and fertility of the soil, as well as over 300 sets of irrigation pipes with Aria inlets andMona reservoir tanks.On themore exposed trees, Green-tech DropMan anchor systems were used, holding the tree stable without the risk of soil contamination from sleepers or kerb stones. Finally, 1,000 m2


of impermeable gtRootBarrier® 325was usedwhere therewas


a need to deter roots from spreading too far. 01423 332100 www.green-tech.co.uk


LISTEN HERE ADF11_Sureset_Project Report - Tall Buildings_PR_Layout 1 18/10/2021 Resin bound paving installed for hotel garden


Resin bound paving from Sureset has been installed for a hotel rooftop garden at Deansgate Square, Manchester. A luxury rounded marble, 10 mm Astro Peake, laid to a recommended 30 mm depth onto a honeycomb grid structure


known as SureCell; this type of base structure is light, easy to transport and equally as strong and sound as more traditional bases.


01985 841 180 www.sureset.co.uk/case-studies/swanky-rooftop-garden-manchester


LISTEN HERE Magply partners with Prokol ADF12_West Fraser_Structural Elements - Structural Flooring_Edit_Layou From neglected bungalow to forever home


WhenMark and Jayne Holdsworth bought a neglected 1960’s bungalow, they could already envisage a fantastic forever home. With the building situated on a steep slope, the floors needed to be installed to take the levels of the house up before making the building


watertight. The Holdsworths’ builders’ merchant recommended West Fraser’s CaberDek and the results spoke for themselves! “We needed a hard-wearing heavy-duty product that provided protection from the elements.With CaberDek that’s exactly what we got!” said MrHoldsworth. Samples of CaberDek can be ordered on thewebsite.


uk.westfraser.com LISTEN HERE WWW.BUILDINGCONSTRUCTIONDESIGN.CO.UK


A Dutchmanufacturer of fireproof flat roof coatings is recommending IPP Limited’sMagply boards as the ideal substrate on which to install its liquid applied treatments: based not only on their fire rating and stability, but also because of thematerial’s flatness.Amajor installation is currently underway in Essex, on an industrial building known as ‘The Gloucester’s, where a long established local building company Davis Bros is overlaying the old ‘northlight’ roof over its own premises and that of its neighbours with a Prokol specification that includes 6 mm Magply. The roof structure is formed from concrete planks over steel trusses and has an existing felt waterproofing system nearing the end of its life. This is being overlaid with Soudal Foam and 100 mm of Xtratherm foil-faced insulation, onto which the 6 mmMagply boards are bonded using a polyurethane adhesive. The joints are sealed with Prokol’s special high elongation tape before theMonoSeal top layer is applied.MagplyMOS boards present a fire-safe and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional plywood or OSB products.


01621 776252 www.magply.co.uk LISTEN HERE ADF01_Magply_Structural Elements - Roofing_DPR VERT_Layout 1 05/01/202


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