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Over 12,500m2 of Kingspan access flooring is being
installed in a new civic headquarters and customer service
centre for York Council on the site of a grade 2 listed
former railway station within the walls of the historic
city.
Northern Access Floors – a Kingspan partner contractor – is
installing 12,500m2 of particleboard and steel encapsulated
panels for the new-build element of the scheme and areas of
the former railway station which are being redeveloped.
About 25% of the flooring has been installed to date and the
remainder is due to be completed by Spring 2012. Miller
Construction are the main contractors for the project.
Northern Access Floors Director Steve Robson said: “The
access flooring in the areas being redeveloped had to be
installed over listed floorboards, so a low cost,
fit-for-purpose flooring system was required and Kingspan’s
particleboard panels met those needs perfectly. The new
build element of the project will have much more usage and
the panels will be installed on concrete, so
steel-encapsulated panels were specified there.”
The particleboard panels were installed with a finished
floor height ranging from 60mm to 150mm, and the FFH of the
steel encapsulated panels was 250mm.
The new civic headquarters and customer service centre will
enable York Council to rationalise its offices from 16 to
four, providing an estimated saving of £17 million over the
next 25 years.