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| 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 | |
| Location : | |
| Lillie Road, Fulham, West London, UK | |
| Building Type : | |
| Residential | |
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January 2002 - April 2003 |
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| Contract Sum : | |
| £7.4 m | |
| Client : | |
| Peabody Trust | |
| Architect : | |
| Feilden Clegg Bradley | |
| Structural Engineer : | |
| Michael Barclay Partnership | |
| E&M Engineer : | |
| Max Fordham and Partners | |
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Main Contractor : (modules/steel panels) |
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| 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 | |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| The building time was estimated to be 25% faster than traditional construction. |
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| Cost |
| 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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