Gilberts leads way in creating right hospitality environment

Gilberts Blackpool is continuing its pioneering reputation at the original outlet for one of the UK’s fastest-growing coffee brands.

Black Sheep Coffee, with its strapline of ‘leaving the herd behind’, opened 30 stores in 2022, with a focus on speciality coffee and customer service.

The brand already has 40 outlets nationwide, including at the iconic, once-derelict Grade II* Battersea Power Station.

The chain’s owner Group Metropolitan has turned to Gilberts to create a discreet means of balancing adequate ventilation for the Battersea outlet’s kitchen without impacting on customers’ ability to relax and enjoy a coffee al fresco in the outside seating area.

The specification

A floor-mounted screen of 12 AP50 acoustic panels, enclosed behind a bank of 12 WGF38 factory-built flanged louvres, minimises noise whilst directing the extract air (and associated odours from the kitchen) upwards away from guests and surrounding residents. 

To accommodate the architecture of the external façade, the compact bank graduates from 1.5m to 2m along its 10.4m length. This provides 50% free ventilation with noise modulation.

Karolis Vigelis, Group Metropolitan Contracts Manager, comments: “The design of the Battersea Power Station outlet’s exterior meant that although the concept was comparatively simple, getting the design right, to make it effective yet as discreet as possible, was more complex. The end result shows how it pays to think outside the box, not follow the herd!”

The WG38 is the smallest profile available in Gilberts’ louvre product range. Its development over the years sees it provide a comprehensive package to keep pace with the evolution of building design and structural interfaces.

It includes standard, high performance, site assembled and acoustic louvres, available in a range of ratings for weight, ventilation, weather, insects and even bird ingress. Even fixings can often be tailored to individual site preferences.

Innovatively, with its in-house design expertise, Gilberts has the capability to create bespoke configurations which can be both CFD modelled, and tested within its own laboratory to give customers complete ‘fit for purpose’ peace of mind. 

Gilberts also offers a comprehensive range of PPC, PVF and PVF2 coatings across its louvres, available in any RAL colour, applied to louvres of almost any size.

Contact:

Gilberts of Blackpool,
Gilair Works,
Clifton Road,
Blackpool,
FY4 40T

Phone: 01253 766911
Fax: 01253 767941

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