Metsec provides design and walling services to regeneration project
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February 18
Light steel walling systems from Metsec
have been used for the construction of
new residential blocks at Nine Elms Point
in south London.
The site is a former Sainsbury’s site in
London’s Vauxhall district that is being
redeveloped to house a new Sainsbury’s
store and a combination of three high
rise and four low rise residential blocks,
providing 647 apartments.
Approximately 10,000m2 of external
façade works have been completed on the
residential blocks.
Specified on the project, voestalpine
Metsec’s steel framing systems (SFS) infill
walling is said to have been selected for
both its flexibility in terms of sizing, and
the additional design services that Metsec
is able to provide to projects.
The design services were utilised in
the early stages of the project to provide
the structural calculations and system
requirements for the SFS walling in order
to adequately support the various external
wall cladding systems.
Metsec said it was also able to provide
solutions and installation details for areas
where non-standard Metsec product
would be required.
This allowed Metsec to use its standard
sections, but in a bespoke arrangement,
to form the soffits and downstands. In
addition to the design, Metsec was able
to provide the structural calculations and
loading of the solution to demonstrate
that the bespoke solution is able to
sufficiently support the cladding on the
project.
In total the regeneration of the site in
Vauxhall is scheduled to take five years,
with Nine Elms Point due for completion
in Spring 2020. In addition to the
supermarket and residential housing, the
area will see the development of the new
Nine Elms underground station which will
form part of the extended Northern Line.
Phase three for Stockport Exchange announced
Developer Muse has submitted plans for a further phase
of the £145m Stockport Exchange development, following
the success of the first two phases.
The regeneration specialist is delivering the mixeduse
regeneration scheme in partnership with Stockport
Council.
The next phase, Two Stockport Exchange, will see an
18,200m2 six-storey office built next to the existing steelframed
One Stockport Exchange, erected by Billington
Structures and Eric Wright Group a year ago.
Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21
February 2018
Design of Portal Frame
Elements (Part 1) Webinar
This 1 hour webinar will
establish the principles and
veritifcation of Portal frame
columns.
Outline planning approval is already in place for the
Aedas designed scheme, with Hannan Associates on board
as building services consultant.
Work is expected to start on site this summer, with
completion of phase three anticipated in Spring 2020.
The overall scheme will ultimately deliver up to
114,000m2 of office space and 8,500m2 of commercial
floor space. The first phase of the scheme – a 1,000 space
multi-storey car park operated by NCP – was completed
in 2014.
Thursday 22 February 2018
Portal Frame Design course
The course aims to provide indepth
coverage of the major
issues surrounding the
analysis, design and
(crucially) the detailing of
portal frames. Swindon.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Light Gauge Steel Design
Course
The 1 day course introduces
the uses and applications of
light gauge steel in
construction
London.
Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14
March 2018
Design of Portal Frame
Elements (Part 2) Webinar
This 1 hour webinar follows
the principles established in
Part 1.
Located in Tunbridge Wells town centre,
the three-storey Heathervale House is
being refurbished and extended with the
aid of steel construction.
The building has been stripped back to
its original concrete frame and the
structure is being re-clad with a stone
finish using a lightweight steel framing
system.
The design also includes a large steelframed
rear extension and two additional
steel floors, accessible via a new entrance
and circulation core.
The additional fourth and fifth storeys
will be largely glazed and set in from the
existing footprint behind a bronze clad
louvre screen.
Working on behalf of main contractor
Grays Thurrock Properties, Gorge
Fabrications is fabricating, erecting and
supplying 102t of structural steelwork for
the project.
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Steel refit for
Tunbridge Wells offices
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