Future Olympia Project
Location: Kensington, London, UK
Client: Deutsche Finance International and Yoo Capital
Project Type: Mixed Prestige Development of Commercial, Exhibition, Leisure, Arts, Residential and Transport infrastructure
Specifiers:
Architects: Heatherwick Studio in collaboration with SPPARC Studio and Adamson Associates.
Consulting Engineers: Burro Happold, Robert Bird Group
Main Contractor: Laing O’Rourke
Specialist Fire Protection Contractor: Kilnbridge Construction Services
Emseal Products: Emseal Emshield DFR/WFR
Future Olympia Project Selects Emshield-DFR/WFR Systems for Fire Resistant Structural Movement Joint Sealing Solutions
The Olympia redevelopment as Future Olympia is one of London’s most ambitious projects, creating a new destination district with a cultural hub, for Arts, Entertainment and Exhibitions. The £1.3bn redevelopment of this 133-year-old venue and its surrounding area in London, financed and managed by owners Deutsche Finance International and Yoo Capital, is well underway and on-track for reopening from 2025.
The original Olympia was designed by Sir Henry Edward Coe, and completed in 1886, the Future Olympia regeneration project is being co-designed by Heatherwick Studio in collaboration with SPPARC Studio and Adamson Associates. Overall, it will provide a wide range of commercial venues and activities, including two hotels, over 30 restaurants, bars and eateries, a 4,400-capacity live music hall, a theatre and performing arts school, in addition to over 2.5 acres of public spaces.
The Main Contractor is Laing O’Rourke who are also using their DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) methodology to make construction faster, more efficient, and more sustainable
When architects Adamson Associates needed a 'Pentathlete' of fire resistant, insulating movement joint sealing solutions to satisfy their 5 key performance parameters for locations around the new central £600m Olympia multi-use entertainment and exhibition venue, they specified Emshield WFR/DFR, the only solution that could tick all 5 boxes - And with an ETA-certified, CE marked product.
The key performance requirement of the specification included:
- Minimum 2-hours EI fire integrity & insulation rating to EN1366-4.
- 100% joint movement capability (joint width +/- 50%).
- 100% water-, air, and smoke-tight.
- 3-D joint movement capability (including vertical and longitudinal shear as well as joint width expansion/contraction.
- High acoustic insulation with sound attenuation performance.
The installation of Emseal Emshield-DFR/WFR by the specialist fire protection team at Kilnbridge Construction Services, shows great skill and attention to detail, whilst accommodating a wide range of joint widths and complex application demands, all through several phases of the works.
Applications for the Emseal WFR/DFR joint sealing systems, include the provision of fire resistant, watertight, airtight, and smoketight, movement joints in many different types of buildings and other structures. These unique Emseal systems allow cost effective, secure and reliable, CE-marked, ETA -certified fire resistant, structural expansion joint sealing solutions, which are ideal for sealing both wide and/or high movement capability joints.
If you are responsible for ensuring the movement joints in your structures are fire rated to maintain compartmentalisation and add vital time to extending structural integrity, Emseal gives you the whole solution in just one product, one application, and installation from one side only, which can be critically important to successfully complete many projects.
Specification details are available on the NBS Platform: Fire Resistant Floor & Wall Movement Joints - Emshield DFR / WFR CE | NCC – Emseal Movement Joints | NBS BIM Library
For more detailed information and assistance, please contact:
David Mackay
Tel: 01257 266696
Visit:
www.EmsealServies.co.uk
