19-British Gypsum Plaster Plasterboard and Drylining Systems News 150508

Subscribe to newsletter

Editor's Note: British Gypsum provide:-

Plaster Plasterboard and Drylining Systems

Request Information

Home
Include Article
Advertise

Links
Request Information
Terms of use
Contact

Request Facilities / Interiors product information

Request Architectural product information A-J

Request Architectural product information K-Z

Request Mechanical HVAC product information

Request Electrical product information

FireCase goes to the high court

Almost 37,000m2 of British Gypsum’s Glasroc FireCase s board has been used to provide fire protection to the 80 metre-high structural steel frame of Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre.

Designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, the new 16-storey north-west headquarters for the Department of Constitutional Affairs, with its distinctive cantilever ‘fingers’ jutting into mid-air like a gigantic open filing cabinet, is the biggest court complex to be built in the UK for over a century.

Fire protection engineers, R & S Driwall, installed the Glasroc board in the FireCase system to provide up to 120-minutes fire protection to the structural frame, much of which remained on view behind huge areas of clear glazing and in the building’s spectacular 10-storey high atrium.

Ideal for this application, the Glasroc FireCase s board is fixed directly around the steel columns and beams, without the need for a time consuming internal metal support framework, and provides a smooth white surface finish which can be either jointed and decorated or left exposed to achieve the specified levels of fire protection.

Dominating the city’s newly redeveloped Springfields business district, the new £160 million building, which has been awarded the highest available BREEAM rating for environmental impact, will provide 47 courtrooms, as well as tribunal and hearing rooms, offices and judges’ quarters.

Other British Gypsum products for the project include horizontal ShaftWall, used to create air extract ducts for the building’s natural ventilation system, and Rigitone 10/23 perforated acoustic ceiling boards, which are reducing reverberation sound to ensure a subdued acoustic environment in courtrooms and meeting areas.

Bovis Lend Lease is main contractor for the project, which is being developed by Allied London Properties for Her Majesty’s Court Service.

Email: bgtechnical.enquiries@bpb.com

Knauf Drywall Plasterboards Plasters Drylining Wall Linings News 070508

Calorex Heat pumps and dehumidifiers News 070508

Cube Interior Solutions Commercial interior contracting specialists News 070508

Jackson Building Centre Comprehensive builders merchants News 070508

Clos-O-Mat Disabled adult changing facility News 070508

British Woodworking Federation Timber Training Programme News 070508

Stride Treglown Architectual practice News 070508

SSQ Roofing Slates Tiles News 070508

Cembrit Roofing Cladding and Boards News 070508

EncapSulite Industrial Lighting News 070508

Icopal Roofs Finishes roofing materials membranes News 070508

JC Wilkens Acoustic solutions specialist News 070508