Trinity, Salford

CaseStudy

Trinity is a high-rise residential scheme made up of 380 apartments withcommunal facilities including a reception, a laundrette, a cinema room,fitness studio, bike storage and car parking space. The space betweenbuildings makes up an ‘urban orchard’ and provides residents with anenjoyable outdoor recreational area.

The scheme incorporates the grade II listed Black Friar pub, becomingthen main entrance and providing communal facilities such as a partyroom and management facilities.

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Client: Salboy

Contractor: Domis

Architect: 5plus Architects

Location: Salford, Manchester

Balconies: 290

A cast-in bracket was designed into the wall panels to allow the arms to be fixedwithout any connection back to the slab. By successfully casting the brackets intoprecast walls we avoided the need for costly thermal breaks and avoided penetratingfire barriers, therefore eliminating the need for fire stopping around balcony brackets.These custom designed brackets were shipped to the concrete wall panelmanufacturer’s factory in Dublin to be cast in before shipping to site in Manchester.This innovative solution resulted in some of the most rigid balconies installed to date(far exceeding our guaranteed L/360) and an average of almost 30 installed a day!The delivery schedule was also arranged primarily on weekends to coordinate with theuse of the crane during the week for the concrete panels, allowing the installprogramme to work harmoniously.

T r i n i t y ,Salford

? Challenge

Solution

The key challenge with this project was the use of concrete wall panels. The challengehere was finding a way to fix the balcony arms to the panels while ensuring the rigidityof the balcony met our Rigid.Ready.Right. brand promise.The other challenge on this project was working with the concrete wall panel installschedule which required the use of the site crane during the week while keeping theproject programme on track.

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An innovative bracket was designed to be cast-in to the MMC concrete wall panels.The brackets were then manufactured and cast-in prior to being transported toManchester for install.

Step 1

Cassette® balconies were prefinished offsite at our production facility inStaffordshire, including the balustrades, decking and soffits.

Step 2

Cassette® balconies were transported in coordination with other trades and craneavailability with balconies ‘nested’ onto each pallet making transport both costeffective and safe. Balconies were pre-slung offsite ready for installation uponarrival.

Step 3

Once lifted into position, the Cassettes® simply Glide-On™ to the pre-erectedsupport arms, before completing the simple mechanical fixings.

Step 4

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NBS SpecificationTrinity, Salford

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Glide-On™ aluminium Cassette® balconies with Crystal® frameless, structural glass.

Cast-in female anchors set into concrete wall panels negating the need for thermalbreaks and fire stopping.

15mm thick clear toughened structural glass panels with nominal radiused cornerswith all exposed edges polished to BS6206 Class A

Standard 400mm modular Glide-On™ Cassette® balconies

Polyester powder coated aluminium soffits controlled draining to the front of thebalcony.

Enjura WPC composite decking fixed with hidden clips.

22 x 22mm (nominal) ‘U’ shaped polyester powder coated aluminium capping totop of glass (RAL 7016m)

21.5mm clear toughened laminated structural glass panels with 1.5mm PVBinterlayer. Solid end boxes formed of polyester powder coated aluminium to thesides of some balconies.

Mechanically fixed to Cassette®

Polyester powder coated aluminium fascia trim to conceal glass fixings/edge ofbalcony frame.

Manufacturer

Reference

Balcony anchor

Arms

Cassette®

structure

Soffits

Deck finish

Toprail

Guarding

Base fixing

Fascias

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