Clearview Midlands October 2013 - Issue 143 | Page 7

DOORS&WINDOWS

Helping
university
business school
to the next level
Curtain walling, windows and doors by
leading architectural aluminium supplier
Kawneer are to feature on Cardiff
University’s new Business School.

Designed by Boyes Rees
Architects to achieve a
BREEAM “Excellent” rating,
the £10million Postgraduate
Centre is proposed as a modern
and contemporary landmark
building that pays due respect
to the local existing materials
and reflects these throughout.
The two wings of the building,
being of different heights, will
also be treated in different
fashions to reduce the mass and
break up the elevations.
Materials include Kawneer’s
AA®100 zone-drained capped
curtain walling linking two
curved terracotta-clad elevations
and Structurally Silicone Glazed
curtain walling to an external
twin-wall façade with internal
walkway.

‘a modern and
contemporary
landmark building’
In addition, Kawneer’s
AA®541 top-hung casement
windows feature as insert
vents in the curtain walling,
complemented by AA®605 low/
medium-duty swing doors,
AA®3720 folding/sliding doors
to the rear of the link atrium
and series 190 heavy-duty
commercial entrance doors.
These will be installed by
Kawneer-approved specialist
sub-contractor Dudleys
Architectural Aluminium
for main contractor ISG
Construction with completion
due in August 2014.

To read more, visit www.clearview-uk.com

OCT 2013

7