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Decomo - One Coleman Street, London     
No 1 Coleman Street, a 20,000m2 commercial development in the City of London, has an exterior appearance that exploits the unique characteristics of the building’s form. The scheme uses polished precast concrete cladding panels configured in a geometric arrangement derived from the curvature of the building’s floor plate but expressed through a series of interlocking and alternating triangulated surfaces. In the design and construction of the façade, the complex geometric structure posed many significant challenges to Decomo, the precast concrete manufacturers, and led to many variations in the cladding details.

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Thorp Precast - 5 Piccadilly Place, Manchester     

Manchester’s Five Piccadilly Place is an entirely precast structure incorporating shear walls, twinwall, precast staircases, solid wall lift shafts and fair-faced architectural sandwich cladding panels. The structure and precast cladding was completed on a floor-by-floor basis, allowing tradesmen to progress with their work underneath. White Portland reconstituted stone vertical panels including curved horizontal fascias and sparkly black granite mix creates a visually striking building that forms an important landmark in Argent’s Piccadilly Place development.

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Thorp Precast - Kent Police Station     

Visually striking white precast concrete panels, fins and columns were designed and specified as a main feature of this new £30m state-of-the-art police headquarters in Gravesend, Kent. The elegant framework and cladding, contrasting with the dark curtain walling system, creates a landmark building for the nearby residents of Gravesham and for the Home Office under the Government’s campaign for Better Public Buildings. The 11,500m2 ‘super station’, which achieves BREEAM Excellent rating, is heated and cooled using a ground source heat pump system, one of the largest such installations in the UK.

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Trent Concrete - Barton Square     
Stunning state-of-the-art precast concrete has been used in an architecturally unique style to dramatic effect at the 19,000m2 extension to the Trafford Centre, Manchester. Barton Square comprises four L-shaped blocks arranged to form a central square, mall and colonnade. The architecture, based on an Italian square, includes a central coliseum with a large fountain and campanile tower. Faced in granite with a curved cornice top, it creates a special feature in the mall. Buff reconstructed stone precast cladding, structures and features were used throughout.

Forticrete - The Nova Building

The use of a combination of some 745 bespoke and thousands of standard cast stone products has given the Nova Building in Bournemouth the impact and visual appeal necessary for a prime site in the town at an affordable cost. The mixed-use building, erected on the former C&A site, utilises almost every available metre, resulting in a complex and challenging shape. The focal point is a tower above the main entrance with a rebated ‘panel’ at parapet level, which provides decorative appeal in an art deco style to match nearby existing buildings, such as the 1930’s Maples building.

Structherm - Park Central, Birmingham

Park Central is a mixed use, mixed tenure development located in central Birmingham in an area that was once a no-go housing estate where properties were impossible to let. Now, a 13-year regeneration is set to provide the local community with a highly desirable area that contributes significantly to the local economy. Structherm has built five apartment blocks on the site using its Fastbuild system, which has a proven record of offering benefits such as quality, flexibility, speed of construction, value for money and sustainability. This project is considered to exemplify the Egan principles of partnering.