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Over the past forty years pre-finished steel has become the most popular choice for both roofs and walls in industrial buildings enabling speedy and precise construction. The latest generation of Colorcoat® products help to continue this trend, incorporating advanced coatings into established cost effective cladding solutions. | |
| |  Baglan Bay Energy Park in Port Talbot, is the UK’s largest single investment site, boasting over 650 acres of prime manufacturing land. One of the most prominent buildings on the site is Astral Court, a 4645 m2 industrial unit comprising a production unit and ancillary office accommodation.
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| |  Simon Conder Associates' workshop for textile firm Georgina von Etzdorf, is sited amongst a coppice of young ash trees. The building is seen to belong to its site in Wiltshire and is as comfortable in its rural surroundings as any mediaeval tithe barn.
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| |  Loseley Dairy Ice Cream is the UK’s largest premium ice-cream manufacturer and has developed one of Europe’s most advanced facilities, based in South Wales. Originally constructed to house an electronics assembly line, the building needed significant refurbishment to make it suitable for food processing. This included re-cladding the interior walls and lifting the ceiling on the cold store to increase the height of the building and accommodate production equipment.
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| |  When Lyons Seafoods needed to expand its chilled food
production base in Warminster it had two options: buy up an
adjacent builder’s yard and extend or move to a completely
new site away from the area.
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| |  Noon Products Ltd completed the construction of a new facility at Southall in February 2003, which incorporated Corus Assure® pre-finished steel with Microban® anti-bacterial protection.
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| |  Three years ago, the original Powerhouse on the remote Scottish island of St. Kilda was nearing the end of its life. In order to ensure the integrety of the installationinto the future, it was decided to refurbish the building, rather than demolish and replace it.
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| |  From the early 1970s techniques have been developed to improve the energy efficiency of factory buildings in the UK. These developments in theoretical studies and eventually in built form have mainly focused on improvements in the thermal efficiency of the building envelope.
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| |  A challenge faced the architects in the design and regeneration of an industrial building on the Junction Six Industrial and Business Park in Witton, Birmingham. The brief comprised the refurbishment of the former headquarters of the GEC organisation, a building originally designed by Wallis Gilbert & Partners.
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