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School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Over £1m of PERI equipment
used to construct ‘jewel in the crown‘ project
PERI formwork and falsework has been instrumental in the transformation of a city centre car park into a £40 million centre for the study and teaching of information technology.
The Potterow development in Edinburgh, planned for completion in 2007, will provide a new Informatics Forum for the School of Informatics at the site on the current Crichton Street car park. Work on Phase 1, to the south of the site, began in September 2005 and consisted of the concrete framed structure of the linked buildings – which have an angular ‘S’ shape floorplan – with structural steel infill forming the internal atrium.
The structure comprises contiguous piled wall basement construction, eight insitu concrete cores (stairwells and lift shafts) with flat 300 mm soffit slabs in reinforced concrete supported by various sized pre-cast columns.
Principle contractors, Balfour Beatty Construction, hired PERI equipment including large volumes of TRIO (1,000 m²), VARIO (1,600 m²), SKYDECK (3,000 m² and 150 SDB edge platforms) and MULTIPROP (3,000) to assist in construction of the £4 million concrete frame.
PERI’s fabrication team was also called into action with the off-site fabrication of 1,600 m² of pre-assembled VARIO wall formwork panels. In areas where quality of finish was important the VARIO panels were fabricated with the face ply fixed from the rear thus producing a blemish free ‘as struck’ surface.
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VARIO GT 24 Girder Wall Formwork
TRIO
SKYDECK Aluminium Panel Slab Formwork
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Douglas Hanley
Construction Manager
“This is the third major project I have used PERI systems on and we have found them to be safe, fast and efficient, PERI‘s ability to supply the right solution for all our formwork and falsework has been a key factor to the success of all these projects, PERI systems have certainly lived up to our expectations in relation to square metre erection rates, I know there are other systems on the market that may be a bit cheaper, but quality is not cheap.”
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The supply of pre-assembled formwork greatly reduced on-site make time for the featured finished areas. An average of 400 cubic metres of concrete was poured each week throughout casting of the frame. External treatment includes pre-cast concrete panels with a variety of finishes including stonework cladding. The building provides an area of 12,000 m² over four and six floors. Phase 2, situated at the north-west of the site has a basement, is nine storeys high and connects to Phase 1 on four levels, providing 4,000 m² of accommodation. |
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The Edinburgh School of Informatics, home to a multinational group of researchers and senior academics, is the only five-star, A-rated school of computing in the UK. It is regarded as the most important such department in the world outside the United States. Not surprisingly, it is seen as one of the ‘jewels in the crown’ of the University of Edinburgh, making a significant contribution economically both to the University and to Edinburgh itself with research income alone of £5 million per year. |
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Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd, Edinburgh |
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PERI UK, Glasgow Office |
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PERI Ltd., Großbritannien
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PERI scope 01.2007 GB
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