Work has just begun
on the installation of architectural glazing systems by leading manufacturer
Kawneer on the second
of three buildings at Bournemouth University.
Approved
dealer Leay is installing Kawneer's AA®100 zone-drained capped curtain walling,
along with AA®541 fixed light windows and two types of doors on the 5,000m2 Fusion 2/Poole Gateway Building (pictured) designed by Atkins
architects.
Leay's team of up to
10 operatives, who are also installing AA®720 and series 190 heavy-duty
entrance doors, is expected to be on site until January while the overall
project is scheduled for completion by Willmott Dixon in September 2019.
The new £27 million
landmark building will target BREEAM "Excellent" and provide
specialist facilities for two of the university's internationally renowned
faculties - Media and Communication and Science and Technology.
The building will
house state-of-the-art facilities on a series of tiered floors. This will
include many multi-media areas, each with acoustically and visually sensitive
areas, including TV and film studios, audio editing, media production spaces,
green screen and motion capture suites, and animation studios.
Leay's business
development manager Mike Watts said: "The project is in essence large
triangular curtain wall screens to the front and rear elevations. These screens
are 25m wide and 15m high at the tallest point and are located within the
atrium.
"The client was
keen to see clean sightlines and minimal steelwork so we worked alongside the
structural engineer to ensure the intermediate steels to tie the screen back to
were kept to a minimum in quantity and also a minimum in size by calculating
the screen to transfer and deadload itself down on to the ground-bearing slab.
"We proposed
the use of Kawneer products to the architect and Willmott Dixon from day one on
this scheme as we knew they would provide the aesthetics the architect was
requiring and also the structural integrity required for the spans of curtain
wall."
Designed to form a
new visual gateway to the university's Talbot Campus and its parkland setting,
it forms part of a wider £100 million programme to expand the university's
facilities.
Work has also
started on installing Kawneer systems on a third building at the university
- a £40 million new home for the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.
Again designed by
Atkins but this time with main contractor Kier, the Fusion 3/Bournemouth
Gateway Building will feature Kawneer's AA®100 zone/mullion drained curtain
walling with feature face caps on tall atrium screens along with AA®720 window
vents and entrance doors and series 190 doors.
Kawneer approved
dealer Aluminium Sashes will have a team of up to eight operatives on site
until April 2019.
Kawneer systems were
also used in 2017 on the original £22 million Fusion building at the university
which fuses education, research and professional practice through a mix of
flexible informal study and social collaborative spaces including 27 seminar rooms,
three lecture theatres, research space and a 24-station PC laboratory.
Kawneer's AA®100
zone-drained curtain walling, AA®541 top-hung casement windows, AA®545
low/medium duty swing doors and series 190 doors were installed by approved
dealer AB Glass for Willmott Dixon to a BDP design.
This
5,800m2* BREEAM "Excellent" building is topped with
a glass dome, allowing maximum natural light into the building. Feature
cladding bands were fixed to the Kawneer curtain walling by aluminium fins.
