High
performance glass and an excellent value engineering approach from
GLASSOLUTIONS has played a major part in the delivery of the St John Bosco
College and Wandsworth Residential Surrey Lane scheme, a sustainable college
and Code level 4 and 5 housing development in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Opened
in September 2015, St John Bosco College is a voluntary-aided school within the
trusteeship of the Salesian of Don Bosco and the Archdiocese of Southwark,
whose ethos is based on the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the
educational approach of Saint John Bosco – with the capacity to cater for over
1,300 students. Whilst its admissions
policy gives priority to children in Catholic primary schools, it welcomes
students from other faiths and backgrounds.
Its
new premises form part of a £50m mixed use development by Lendlease which also
provides a range of 100 new homes on the site.
Working
with London architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Lendlease committed to
delivering sustainable residential and educational buildings, designing in air
source heating, a range of water saving and sustainable transport measures as
well as building in ‘lean and clean’ design measures.
The
four-storey school complex comprises steel frame construction with primarily
brick and wooden clad finish and uses high performance glazing widely
throughout to maximise natural light whilst offering excellent thermal
performance and minimising solar gain.GLASSOLUTIONS worked with leading architectural aluminium systems
company Metal Technology to supply and install glazing in a contract valued at
around £2.5m.
A
stringent glazing specification saw standard glazing in the college buildings
featuring argon gas filled 16mm double glazed units with black warm edge spacer
between 6mm SGG SECURIT HST outer panes and 6.8mm SGG STADIP PLANITHERM ULTRA N
inner panes.Solar control glazing units
featured 6mm SGG SECURIT HST COOL-LITE SKN 174 II outer panes and 6.8mm SGG
STADIP inner panes whilst rooflights combined 8mm SGG SECURIT HST PLANITHERM
ULTRA N II and 8.8mm SGG STADIP glass.
Solar
glazing and standard glazing also featured in the residential buildings with
the Code level 5 town houses including triple glazed units with 6mm SGG SECURIT
HST PLANITHERM ULTRA N II and 4mm SGG SECURIT HST separating two 16mm argon gas
filled cavities.
Having
already established a good working relationship with GLASSOLUTIONS on the
Ministry of Justice Framework, Lendlease appointed the UK based glass supplier
in competitive tender on the basis of their value for money and technical
support in a project which required tight fiscal control and delivering within
tight timescales.
Says
Lendlease’s commercial manager, Wayne Pluck: “GLASSOLUTIONS demonstrated a
commitment to the project from tender through to final delivery and provided
excellent technical support throughout the challenging project.Their genuinely partnering approach reflects
our own business philosophy and they have played an integral part in the
success of this scheme.”
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