Winners of the Sustainability Award in the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) recently held its own inaugural Trust Sustainability Awards to celebrate achievements of its staff in delivering sustainability improvements across the Trust. Having successfully delivered the large, complex external refurbishment of Aintree Hospital, design build
Cliff Woodhouse, Business Development Director, recently joined Keegans and ECD Architects as a guest at their summer reception at the Building Centre, London, which included a private viewing of the Retrofit exhibition. design build facades has worked successfully with both companies across a range of refurbishment projects in the residential and HE/FE sectors.
Overcladding occupied buildings is highly complex and specialist. The project’s success is dependent upon getting the design right from the outset. At design build facades we take a holistic approach, considering the many inter-related facets to develop a bespoke solution. These include developing the right access methodology to enable smooth project delivery. The tower block
design build facades is pleased to announce that it has been appointed to Lot 8, External Wall Works, of the Generation 2 Hyde Building and Fire Safety Framework. Lot 8 is for the design, manufacture, installation, and ongoing maintenance and testing of cladding systems and includes buildings which exceed 18m in height. The scope covers
design build facades impressive portfolio of fire safety works continues to grow following the award of a contract to upgrade the cladding at Constable House and Bridport House for the London Borough of Enfield. The Council determined that the existing cladding system required upgrading to meet the criteria for protection against fire spread of the
Already firmly established as leaders in external refurbishment of the HE estate, design build facades enjoyed a busy AUDE Conference held recently at the University of Liverpool with many delegates interested in the fabric first approach to helping them achieve their carbon reduction commitments. Cliff Woodhouse, Business Development Director, commented “we are seeing growing recognition
Building relationships with clients is core to our ethos at design build facades. We strive to be flexible in our approach to meet their needs, so when Wiltshire College & University Centre needed to phase their refurbishment programme of the Avon and Wylye buildings at the Salisbury Campus in line with funding we were pleased
Overcladding of the iconic Hexagon Tower is progressing as planned. We have successfully delivered some of the most technically challenging and complex overcladding projects ever undertaken in the UK applying our unrivalled industry CV of skills, knowledge and experience. This brutal masterpiece is another on this long list of achievements. One of the major technical
With a busy start to the new year, design build facades is pleased to announce that they will shortly be commencing work at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Building envelope works to the 11-storey Tower Block at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital comprises upgrades to the external facade using our insulated aluminium rainscreen
The Sentinels comprising Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers are two 90-metre-tall residential tower blocks on Holloway Head in Birmingham. Owned by Citizen Housing , the 32 storey blocks were built in 1972. Until recently The Sentinels were the tallest purely residential tower blocks in the city. design build facades has been appointed by Citizen Housing to