interiors
Cambridge nursery benefits from beautiful brickwork
F
acing bricks from Wienerberger, leading supplier of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, were used to create beautiful façades on the award-winning Storey’s Field Community Centre and Nursery project in Cambridge’s new Eddington development. An £8.3m joint venture by the University of Cambridge and Cambridge City Council, Storey’s Field offers Eddington residents an important multi-use space, walled garden and a 100-place nursery. Designed by McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA), the municipal hub features Wienerberger’s Con Mosso facing bricks and special bricks, supplied by Taylor Maxwell. This cream, soft mud, creased multi brick has a soft and textured appearance which makes it ideal for both external and internal façades. Using facing bricks as a building material gave the architects the freedom to create individual façades by playing with laying patterns, detailing and eye-
catching features such as porthole and geometric shaped windows, installed around the building by contractors Anglian Brickwork.
The Eddington community now benefits from an architecturally impressive, versatile and practical space that can host weddings, memorial services, music concerts, art exhibitions, film screenings, parties, meetings, exercise classes and more. The local children also enjoy a private and secure nursery space where they can play and explore.
As well as several prestigious awards from RIBA and the Brick Development Association, the project is also set to achieve BREEAM Excellent and Outstanding ratings for its sustainability performance.
www.wienerberger.co.uk www.anglianbrickwork.co.uk
Door-closer problems solved at John Ferneley College in Leicestershire
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ELCROSS recommended LCN 4111 door closers to solve problems affecting three sets of double doors at the John Ferneley College in Leicestershire.
Standing impressively on a hillside above Melton Mowbray, the John Ferneley College is an 11-16 secondary academy and part of the Mowbray Education Trust. Named after local resident and the leading equine painter of the early 19th century, the college has performed extremely well in academic terms over the past few years, with GCSE results in the top 10% of schools nationally. The layout of the school is divided into separate learning zones with double doors leading through from the main corridor
rinto the Enterprise zone - for Business Studies, the Performance zone for Arts and P.E. and the Communication zone for Maths and English. These three sets of double doors provide access for a large volume of users on a daily basis, some perhaps more concerned with getting through quickly than ensuring the doors are treated gently. In other words the doors and closers are operating in one of the harshest environments in terms of usage. The closers originally fitted proved inadequate for the job and the excessive wear and tear resulted in the doors firstly opening too far causing damage to the structure of the doors and subsequently not closing properly which is a major problem for these fire doors. Estates
Manager Jeff Challis turned to door hardware specialist Relcross who recommended the LCN 4111. The bodies of these CE marked door closers are made from cast iron, the internal components are stainless steel and the units have been independently tested to 10 million cycles. The extra duty forged steel arms are standard as are the double heat treated steel pinions. They are also filled with an all weather fluid that eliminates the need for seasonal adjustments and, should any adjustments be needed at other times, the LCN® Fast™ Power Adjust system makes them quick and easy.
www.relcross.co.uk
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