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Northpoint Health Centre, Bransholme
This £14m development in Goodhart Road, North Hull, will provide a base for modern primary care and community-based services, and will be the eleventh scheme to be developed as part of Hull's NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme. Speedclad will be providing the SFS, Kingspan composite cladding & PPC Aluminium Rainscreen Cladding.
The project developer Citycare is a public private partnership between Hull's primary care trust NHS Hull and local construction company Sewell Group. The site for the new facility, near Northpoint Shopping Centre, is within a shopping area with the highest footfall outside of the city centre. It is a major focus for retail and community activity.
Richard Rose Morton Academy Secured
Speedclad are proud to be part of the £26 million pound development of the Richard Rose Morton Academy in Carlisle.
The Innovative building is based on a two-wing design linked by a large glazed main atrium and clad in cedar. 18 metres tall at its highest point, it will also have a rooftop classroom giving panoramic views across the city & Lake District.
Contractor of the month (Dec 2010)- Havelock Academy, Grimsby
In our first month onsite at Havelock Academy our site team gained Kiers “Contractor Of The Month Award” a good start to the scheme. This was awarded after a Health & Safety Assessment and for creating safe systems of work.
Kendal College- Civic Building of the year 2009
Kendal College Cumbria beat stiff competition from 143 public buildings to claim “Civic Building of the Year 2009”. Principal of Kendal College, Graham Wilkinson, said: “We were really pleased with the result, particularly as we faced competition from right across the country”.
The Marley Eternit Textura panels were fitted by Speedclad Ltd using a structural adhesive system involving bonding the panels onto a combination of timber battens and aluminium support framework. Textura has a beautiful aesthetic, highly glazed granular finish that provides a low maintenance, robust facade to the buildings.
Kendal College’s Milnthorpe Road build was designed by architects Taylor Young and features cutting edge environmental technology, such as green screens to improve air quality, solar shading, solar heating linked to the college’s hot water systems and a “living” sedum roof to improve the thermal performance of its heritage construction building.