Notable Features |
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Prefabricated modular residential construction |
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Steel panels for the floors, walls and ceilings |
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Light gauge steel structure |
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Basic Information |
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Location
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Lillie Road, Fulham, West London, UK |
Building Type : |
Residential |
Contract
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January 2002 - April
2003 |
Contract Sum
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£7.4 m |
Client
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Peabody Trust |
Architect : |
Feilden Clegg Bradley |
Structural
Engineer : |
Michael Barclay Partnership |
E&M Engineer : |
Max Fordham and Partners |
Main Contractor :
(modules/steel panels) |
Forge Llewellyn/Ayrshire Metal Products |
Cost Consultant : |
Walker Management |
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Overview |
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The project
includes 65 homes, a mix of apartments, maisonettes and 3 to 4 bedroom houses
arranged in 3 blocks, the largest of which rises to 6-storeys. |
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Awards |
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2001 RIBA Project Award in the Housing Design
category |
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Contractor's
Contract |
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Forge Llewellyn |
http://www.forge-llewellyn.co.uk |
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Unit 13.3.2 The Leathermarket
Weston Street, London SE1 3ER, UK
Phone: 00 44(0)207 357 7323
Fax: 00 44(0) 207 3578157
Email:
contactus@forge-llewellyn.co.uk |
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Ayrshire Metal Products
http://www.ayrshire.co.uk |
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Sources |
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Steeling Times, Summer 2002, Forge Llewellyn Ltd. |
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Smith J., Prefabs with a difference, Homes, July
2002 |
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Prefabricated Modules and
Structure |
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Innovative
system: The semi-modular scheme in which the bathroom and part of the hallway
were made as modules in the factory, whereas the rest of the house was assembled
on-site from steel, load bearing panels. |
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The structure
was in light gauge steel. The building facades included terracotta cladding
system which was supported by prefabricated aluminum frames, expressed hot
rolled structural steel sections and cantilevering balconies. |
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The houses,
maisonettes and apartments were fitted with 7 basic types of pods, each spanning
from party wall to party wall, at a width of around 4.2 m and more than 2 m in
length. Each pod weighed just over a ton. The contractor provided 1500
prefabricated steel frames and 56 innovative structural bathroom modules. |
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Construction Phases |
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The building
time was estimated to be 25% faster than traditional construction. |
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Cost |
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Cost
consultant Walker Management carried out a value-for-money analysis of
traditional, volumetric and light-gauge steel-build methods for the project and
all three emerged with similar results. |
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