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£40 Million, a Car Door handle & ThermConX??

by Simon Peacock on Sep 9, 2009

The answer is the all new North Liverpool Academy . The recently completed, cold bridge free super school, - built on former playing fields within earshot of both Goodison Park and Anfield football grounds – took its’ design inspiration from a Jaguar car door handle.   The academy - which specialises in business, enterprise, mathematics and computing - is comprised of two teaching blocks, separated by the imposing 140m long, 15m wide, car-door-handle inspired steel structure.   Over 100 ThermConX A11-P75-200x200x80 thermal break connections were included in the development to provide cold bridge free support for the schools extensive roof pearlings.    Billington structures, the steel contractor for the development, faced an un-enviable task… The central steel structure alone took over 6 months to design and required a collossal 350 tonnes of structural steelwork.   "The...Read More >>