Trent wins further work at The Trafford Centre
Following on from its previous extensive and successful work at the Trafford Centre Trent Concrete has secured the contract for the design, detailing, manufacture and installation of the reconstructed stone cladding and features on the Barton Square Development, part of the new expansion programme at the Trafford Centre.
The development is comprised of four "L" shaped blocks arranged to form a central square, mall and colonnade.
Trent's £6.4m contract includes a variety of unique precast elements, some weighing up to 24 tonnes.
On the external elevations there are storey height pilasters typically 8m high x 1m wide, cornice units typically 8.8m long x 1.4 m high, a band course and plinth 10.8 long x 445 high.
The external corner towers comprise large raking ashlar 8m high x 10m girth overall with brick faced units above typically 2.2m wide x 6m high and cornice units.
Tapered circular columns 900mm diameter x 7.2 m high with beam and hollow core flooring above form the colonnade and a central coliseum feature 23m radius x 10 m high is constructed from 500 square columns 7.2 m high faced with granite and a curved cornice 8 long x 1.4 m high arranged in a double line.
The units are cast in a buff - coloured reconstructed stone mix with an acid- etched finish.
Trent started the design and detailing process in late summer 2006 and manufacture in November which will continue through 2007.Site works are planned to start on 26 March.
Trent Concrete is a specialist precast concrete contractor, producing high quality bespoke architectural cladding and structures. Providing a complete solution from detailed design development through skills-based manufacture to on-site erection, Trent Concrete partners with leading developers and specifiers to ensure that their projects gain maximum benefit from prefabrication.
Trent Concrete's precast solutions make a major contribution to improved quality, certainty, sustainability, safety and efficiency in the UK construction industry today.
The company has worked on some of the most prestigious projects of recent years, including The Scottish Office and the Toyota GB Plc and Thames Water headquarters buildings, and the quality of its work is consistently recognised in the form of industry awards. Trent Concrete was founded in 1917 and is based in Nottingham, where it employs more than 200 people.
Principle Contractor: Bovis Lendlease Ltd
Concept Architect : Chapman Taylor
Architect: Leach Rhodes Walker
Structural Engineer: Connell Mott MacDonald