Large Scale Projects
Quantal selected for 3,347 sq m equatorial installation
Location: Equatorial Guinea
Products: Conservatory, Luminatrium and Orangery
Quantal, together with one of its authorised installers has completed a massive
3,347 sq m luminatrium installation in Equatorial Guinea, Africa using their aluminium
roofing system.
Featuring three octagonal and two extensive square sections linked by glass corridors,
Quantal was specified for the project through the Italian architectural practice,
Makinen Venture Corporation, which created the design.
One of the largest installations of its type anywhere in the world, sheer scale,
logistics and climate posed the greatest challenges.
The conservatory director said: "The location of the site presented us with the
single biggest challenge, along with differences in technologies and very different
working practices.
"The scale of the project meant that the use of an engineered system critical. The
other main element was the extremity of the climate, which made an aluminium system
the only suitable choice."
Offering a specialist conservatory, luminatrium and orangery export operation, to
areas as far flung as America, Australia, Cyprus and Africa; the system was pre-manufactured
before being exported to Equatorial Guinea where it was installed by a local workforce.
The project will provide a substantial extension to the living quarters of the original
property including banqueting hall and botanical garden which will house a collection
of unusual and exotic flora.
Ian Cocken, general sales manager, Quantal, said: "The Quantal system is a comprehensive
roofing system and because it's a comprehensive system it is far more versatile
and suitable for a greater range of designs, for example variable pitches and a
valley detail design fully geared to bespoke structures – it's a complete glass
roofing system with the structural integrity to deliver large scale projects."
The system features a number of innovations among them, the patented RotaFit twist-and-lock
allowing Quantal's new hip bars to be fitted without the need for nuts or bolts;
a Jack Rafter system, delivering improved weather tightness through precise factory-fabricated
sections, speeding up installation time by creating positive location for all fixings;
and Twin fast, a simple fixing system allows installers to slide glazing bars into
place while Twinfast's in built spacer to create the perfect glazing plane.
The system also features a structural box gutter eaves beam that supports pitches
of up to 40 degrees on gables and lean-tos without the need for mechanical fixings;
UniRidge, designed to address a range of design problems and which can be used on
pitches between 22 and 30 degrees, accepting 24mm DGSU; and a Valley Detail, designed
to speed up glazing and increases design flexibility through a new glazing stop
that eliminates glazing slip.
For further information or to discuss a project please contact us.