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 | | PALGRAVE BROWN IS QUICK ON THE DRAW IN THE DEEP SOUTH | | | Palgrave Brown | | 02/11/2007 | | | Palgrave Brown, the £66 million UK timber engineering company, has helped a Southampton developer achieve a build time of just 14 weeks for eight flats, using the Palgrave Brown SIPS building system.
The development stands on a brownfield site surrounded by gardens on all sides, close to Southampton Water. There were unsightly derelict warehouses and garages there previously, but developer Wheatshield Ltd has used the space to create a landscaped development of eight one-bedroom homes, cleverly designed to look like four houses.
Palgrave Brown worked closely with Wheatshield on the specification of materials, and supplied a comprehensive suite of products including roof trusses, spandrel panels, flooring and TJI joists, staircases, and all internal walls as well as the SIPS system for the first-time-buyer development.
Wheatshield director Scott Pinnick comments, “Even though first fix was delayed by the weather during the wettest summer on record, once the development was out of the ground, we were really pleased with the speed of the build. The weatherproof SIPS envelope meant that work could continue, no matter what.”
Garry Dyke, Palgrave Brown’s national product manager for the SIPS system, explains, “On this project the customer really received the benefit of the integrated building system offered by Palgrave Brown. We were able to deliver each precision-designed element of the SIPS system and other timber products at exactly the right time for the whole of the build, meaning that delays were minimised.”
What’s more, the exceptional air tightness and high thermal performance of the SIPS system means that the developer had no worries about Part L compliance. “We were particularly impressed with how easily the components slotted together,” comments Scott Pinnick. “The precision of the engineering made airtight installation really straightforward.”
In fact, Wheatshield is so pleased with the SIPS system that it has now placed an order to use the system for another 14 dwellings in a high-spec development overlooking Southampton Water. That’s real southern exposure! | |
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