Trent Concrete wins Kings Place cladding contract
Trent Concrete has secured a £1.9m cladding contract for Kings Place, a new arts and office development on York Way in London's Kings Cross/St Pancras area.
Trent's contract covers 4000 square metres of Jura limestone faced precast units to all external elevations, with an additional 300 square metres of handset Jura limestone at the lower levels. The spandrel and mullion cladding scheme includes 300 individual units, with typical spandrel panels measuring 8m long by 1.2m high and typical mullion panels measuring 2m wide by 3m high. The panel arrangement forms double height apertures with curtain walling infill panels in glazed and solid sections.
This large panel scheme, incorporating stone cast onto a precast panel in lieu of traditional masonry, will ensure a fast programme time and early enclosure of a dry weatherproof envelope. Precast units also avoid the need for scaffolding, which would have been difficult to erect as the Regents Canal bounds the building on two sides.
Kings Place will incorporate office space, retail units and a concert hall that will become home to the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Trent is due to start on site in January 2007, with a further visit in the Spring to undertake the handset stonework.
Design and Build Main Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine
Architect: Dixon Jones
Engineer: ARUP
Notes
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 employs more than 160 people.
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Email: lmason@trentconcrete.co.uk
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