Aggregate Industries’ revolutionary LytaScreed has once
again proved its outstanding credentials during the
renovation of one of the UK’s most prestigious educational
institutions, University College London.
As part of UCL’s £1.2 billion In keeping with the architectural
refurbishment programme, main heritage of the Wilkins Building,
contractor Balfour Beatty was the terrace included a Portland
tasked with building a terrace next stone floor, with a new external
to the 19th Century Grade 1 listed staircase leading to the refectory at
Wilkins Building, providing a vital lower ground floor level.
passage through the university’s
Bloomsbury Campus while also As such, the project required a
serving as an outdoor events space. lightweight podium screed suitable
to carry natural stone paviours
Located close to Regent Park that could also provide a superior
in London, the £10m revamp drainage system.
incorporates a complete
modernisation programme, Cue Aggregate Industries and its
including the construction of a pioneering LytaScreed – one of the
new single storey building below fastest drying and most versatile
the terrace to house a full range floor screed ranges available to the
of catering kitchen facilities to UK market.
provide food for the new refectory.
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