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- Pre-manufactured roofing system
- Rooflights
- External composite façade
- Rain screen cladding
With around 8,500 Sky staff working from several locations, the construction of a new campus at the company’s Isleworth site allowed the company to streamline operations and improve communications by condensing the number of staff buildings.
This was the UK’s largest glue laminated timber project and Prater was responsible for the design, testing and off site engineering of the complete external envelope package. The scope of works included a 15,000 sqm pre-manufactured roofing system, accommodating 417 roof lights, as well as 10,000 sqm of external composite façade with an external rain screen cladding system.
Our in-house team was responsible for the roof design, carrying out a comprehensive programme of testing in relation to fire, acoustics and impact. Mock-ups were created both for approval on site as well as testing at various specialist laboratories.
The size and scale of the project and necessary build timescales meant that off-site manufacturing played a vital role – with the large roofing cassettes brought to site and craned into position. Off-site construction enabled us to logistically plan and deliver a project that not only satisfied the difficult build schedule, but also contributed to overall health and safety, by limiting work on site.
The project also benefitted from 4D modelling to ensure effective communication of the access and logistics strategy as well as the on-site coordination of interface trades.
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