Forth Valley College, Falkirk
4th February 2020

CMS WINDOW SYSTEMS has completed the £3million manufacture and installation of aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling for the new £78m Forth Valley College in Falkirk for main contractor Balfour Beatty.

The 20,709 sq. m campus, which received funding of £65m from the Scottish Government for its construction, represents one of the largest publicly funded building projects in Scotland. The extensive facilities accommodate 450 members of staff and 2,000 full-time students focused on science and technology, engineering, sport and healthcare, with spaces designed in a way that allows for a flexible learning environment.

CMS made and installed than 5,400 square metres of curtain walling and 1,100 square metres of windows and doors for the three blocks – teaching, sports and workshop – which are predominantly two storey.

The new building is designed around a steel frame structure supporting precast flooring with masonry external walls including curtain walling and cladding. Metal Technology aluminium systems were specified, including its System 17 capped and silicone pointed curtain walling, System 5-20D doors and System 4-35 windows. Three surface finishes: RAL 7016 anthracite grey, AA25 silver natural anodised, and RAL 9002 grey white were specified.

Working on a solution developed by CMS, Metal Technology also extruded two new bespoke aluminium profiles for use within the courtyard areas: a “bird mouth” feature external face cap to the curtain walling and a vertical cladding profile to strips of glazing between the windows.

CMS Façade Director Stephen Anderson said: “Forth Valley College’s Falkirk campus is an outstanding educational facility and we are delighted to have been appointed to handle the glazing package. Our design, manufacturing and installation capabilities and resources are ideally suited to large scale new build public projects of this kind, and as a long term supply chain partner to many major contractors and local authorities, we are highly experienced in the successful delivery of such schemes.”

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