Gilberts featuring alongside the musical greats in London

17 Sep 2018

Gilberts Blackpool has joined the likes of The Beatles and Adele in featuring at the new home of Universal Music.

In the heart of London, BAM Construction has constructed the Grade A office building on behalf of Argent LLP, Four Pancras Square.

The building uses state-of-the-art technology to achieve a BREEAM outstanding rating across its ten floors, spanning 170,000 square feet over ten floors; apart from the retail units at ground level, the whole building is let to Universal Music.

As part of its BREEAM target, the building includes passive ventilation. Gilberts provided a bespoke special grille solution to meet the aesthetic and functional requirements.

Roughly 250 metres of 755mm and 680mm linear grilles have been externally fitted around the full building perimeter, with a similar quantity of 215mm wide grilles providing ventilation on the inside

Innovatively, the ventilation grilles have been bespoke-engineered to deliver multi-purpose usage.

Gilberts has mitred the corners of the grilles to acute, obtuse and right-angle requirements to fit the form of the building.

The grilles have also been provided with special notches (where required) to fit the building structure and services, along with having specially placed plates within the grilles with holes to accept CCTV, footfall and landlord cameras, along with Wi-Fi bracketry to enable discreet housing of these additional ancillaries.

Gilberts’ Technical Director, Roy Jones, commented: “Four Pancras Square was a challenging prospect as the key was the aesthetic appearance and combined services, along with the scale of the required functional grilles.

“We worked closely with BAM to develop solutions that helped them incorporate all the building services required, as seamlessly as possible.

“Uniquely, we have the capability, in-house, to design, manufacture, and test, our products, therefore we were able to design and fabricate a solution that integrated into the façade, and could further accommodate additional equipment with minimal visual evidence.”

Contact:

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

Phone: 01253 766911
Fax: 01253 767941

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