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Gleaming façade for Tameside College
centres’ open to students in 2016 following completion of Phase 1. Phase 2 has now also been completed, combining a new advanced skills centre for Tameside College with a Joint Services Centre for Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) and its partners, within a striking contemporary development. The striking V-shaped building adjoins a
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restored 19th century façade and combines glazed elevations with the Shackerley SureClad® ventilated façade system in a polished, highly-reflective white ceramic granite. Replacing the council’s former main
administration building, the development will also provide a 7,000 sqm Advanced Skills Centre for Tameside College, with high specification facilities for a wide range of vocational subjects including, hair and beauty, hospitality and catering, travel and tourism and business skills. The development is part of an asset
optimisation strategy for Tameside MBC that will help the council address the administrative needs of a 21st century community while supporting Tameside College’s ambitions for offering improved and broader provision for students. Ryder Architecture designed the
project with glazed elevations to create a feeling of openness at street level and for the front elevations at the top of
either side of the ‘V’. Solid elevations of polished white SureClad® ceramic granite were used for each diagonal elevation of the V, to reference the colour palette of local heritage buildings and manage the potential solar gain of the building. “We had used the Shackerley
SureClad® system on a number of previous projects, including the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, the Northumbria Police Headquarters and the Grimsby Institute,” Mark Clasper at Ryder Architecture explains, “so we knew it would deliver the high quality finish we needed for the building, while offering a durable installation.” Cladding specialist, FK Group, was
contracted to provide the design and installation expertise for the cladding elements of the project. Explains Mark Woodhouse, project designer at FK Group: “While the main
ventilated cladding elevations could be installed with standard 1200 x 600mm ceramic panels in high gloss artic white, the number of interfaces with windows, glazed lower elevations and the overhanging soffit that creates a narrow fin effect surrounding the glazed façade of each ‘V’-end demanded a high number of bespoke details. “The Shackerley team was really helpful
when it came to working with us to ensure each item was precision cut and pre-fabricated to meet our needs.” Mark Woodhouse continues: “For some
of the details, the exact gradient of the panel was absolutely critical and Shackerley’s in-house manufacturing capabilities at its ISO 9001 quality assured manufacturing facility in Lancashire played a vital role in ensuring every element of the façade fitted perfectly on site.” In addition to the overhanging soffits,
the façade design for the Vision Tameside Phase 2 project also had to take account of potential deflection due to the design of the building. “There are extended floor slab spans
between the support columns of the steel framed structure and we also had to factor in live loads from people and furniture following completion to calculate the potential deflection considerations for the cladding installation,” Mark Woodhouse continues. “Rather than an 8mm tolerance between panels, the deflection requirements called for a 14mm tolerance and the SureClad® system provided us with the flexibility we needed to achieve this whilst delivering a high end, seamless finish to the façades.”
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