Trent Concrete and Carillion partner for sixth time
Trent Concrete is partnering with Carillion Building for the sixth time on a new office development at Farnborough Business Park in Hampshire.
Trent's £280,000 contract covers 1100 square metres of slate grey acid-etched cladding to a high-quality office building that has been designed to last 120 years. Trent was able to meet this lifetime requirement with its standard precast concrete specification as used on all projects.
The feature panels are typically 2.9 metres in length and 2.1 metres in height, and are used to clad shear walls to lift, stairway and service cores which form a predominant feature within the entrance and atrium of the building. Trent is using a special fixing mechanism, Halfen FPA, to fix the units to the in-situ concrete shear walls. Supports are drilled into the wall with their reinforcement stirrups hanging down ready to secure the panel from the back.
Trent is the first UK company to use this fixing method, originally used on the replacement cladding of the BT Tower podium. Trent starts on site in April for a 7 week installation period.
Architect: Foster & Partners
Contractor: Carillion Building
Engineer: Peter Brett Associates
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 using its own teams, 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 200 people.
Editorial contact: Mike Downing
Tel: 0115 987 9747
Email: mike@trentconcrete.ltd.uk
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