Listed Building Projects
Quantal selected for 18th century stately home
Location: Wedding Centre, Surrey
Products: Aluminum roofing system
Quantal's aluminium roofing system has been selected for a 190 sq m conservatory
installation at a Grade II listed stately home.
Bijou Wedding Venues required a bespoke conservatory at Botleys Mansion, Surrey;
a paladin style mansion house which was originally built in 1765. In addition to
sheer scale, a number of technical challenges caused by the design and structure
of existing buildings had to be overcome.
The conservatory director said: "It's a big project and anything on that scale raises
challenges, especially considering the age of the building. "The design and long
bi-fold doors running along the lengths of the building raised particular challenges
because it meant that a number of our portals had to stop short of the ground and
be designed to slot directly into RSJs.
"This in itself meant that we had to do extensive and structural calculations to
ensure that the weight and forces generated by the roof didn't push the existing
buildings out. "The strength of the Quantal system is that not only does it have
the structural integrity to deliver larger and more complex projects but it can
also be adapted with comparative ease to create a bespoke solution."
The new conservatory is being used by the luxury wedding venue as a reception room.
The Quantal 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.
It 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.
Ian Cocken, general sales manager, Quantal, said: "The systems greatest strength
is the flexibility that it delivers. It features a number of design efficiencies
that make it easier to fit combined with huge structural strength for larger projects.
"This is paying dividends for our customers who work in the commercial sector because
it allows them to pitch for business, particularly in the commercial sector, that
simply isn't available to fabricators and installers using less highly engineered
systems."
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