TECHNAL has adapted its FY65 aluminium window specification to meet the narrower than normal opening vent dimensions at a £52 million student village in Coventry.
Some 3,500sqm of TECHNAL FY65 aluminium windows together with the company’s MX52 curtain wall and STII high traffic entrance doors were fitted at the 893-home development for AXO Student Living.
This is the second Coventry-based student residential project Technal has worked on recently with façade contractor CASU Consulto and main contractor Galliford Try, after the first at nearby Godiva Place.
Designed by FBM Architects, Paradise Street is said to be inspired architecturally by the original medieval city of Coventry. The scheme’s homes are arranged in a ‘wall’ and three towers to address the ring road, with a gatehouse opening into a 2,000sqm piazza.
Every window in the development is floor-to-ceiling with each student’s desk located across the window so they can take full advantage of the views of the city.
Daniel Holden, Managing Director at Leeds-based façade contractor, CASU Consulto said: “One of the key challenges we faced with the design specification was how narrow the opening vents had to be to maximise the size of the adjacent fixed light within the aperture. Technal was tasked with ensuring we could achieve an opening vent that was some 53mm narrower than the minimum recommended size, whilst still achieving PAS 24 compliance.”
The windows, which in the tower situations are 1.2m wide x 2.1m high, had to meet a high thermal performance with a U-value of 1.4 W/m2K. Because of the smaller window size, alongside a specially coated double glazed unit that achieved a centre pane U-Value of 1.0W/m2K, CASU and TECHNAL specified thermal foam inserts for the profiles, ensuring compliance with the thermal requirements.
Other TECHNAL systems installed include 500sqm of MX52 Visible Grid Curtain Wall. This has been installed into an angled brickwork detail, creating an interesting wedge shape design to the common room spaces.
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