Project: Gunpowder Mill, Waltham Abbey
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Architect: Pollard Thomas Edwards
Product: Bespoke Western Red Cedar timber fin Eco Fin
Continuous timber solar shading to all four sides of the extending platform of the regional head office of construction Company Hill Partnerships.
A bespoke Trapezoidal Western Red Cedar fin was developed for this project and secured to steels via our discreet insert pin assembly.
Project: Heston School
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Architect: Ellis Williams
Product: 300F Contrafin/100c Contrafin/150F Eco Fin
New D&B School built by Apollo Education, with Solar Shading to South and West Elevations by Contrasol. One of the key design criteria was the minimalisation of aircraft noise through enhanced acoustic performance, as the school is located close to Heathrow Airport. The structural concrete frame and flat slab provides a high thermal mass and good noise seperation, as well as good flexibility for future changes to internal layouts.
With an eye on sustainability, this school's heating and cooling strategy involves the use of ground source heat pumps which will assist in the fulfilment of a 20% on-site renewable target. Heston School will be one of the largest installations of ground source heat pumps in the UK, reducing energy requirements of the building by 30% from the Governments target figures and reducing carbon emissions by 28%.
Project: Heartlands High School
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Architect: HMY
Product: 300F Eco Fin
The design for this brand new secondary school is to be a local flagship for the government's Building Schools for the future programme. The school will accomodate over 1000 pupils within a building that is both sustainable and inclusive.
Sustainability was fundamental to the project, which is set to achieve an "excellent" BREEAM rating. Constructed on brownfield land, the school employs a variety of on-site renewable energy saving strategies and minimises consumption through careful orientation and solar shading.
Numerous bays totaling close to 1000 sq meters of our stacked Western Red Cedar Eco fin were installed onto four elevations of the building, across two blocks. The design not only provides a sustainable solution to solar gain, but the system also creates a striking visual aesthetic between the stainless steel structure and the timber fins.
