Frankham was appointed to make the buildings’ cladding safe in compliance with the latest industry standards for high rise external wall systems.
- Hyde Housing
Our architects and structural engineers designed the new cladding system.
Frankham Risk Management Services was appointed to carry out the cladding investigation and samples were removed for testing. An initial report was submitted to Hyde, advising that the cladding system was highly likely to be non-compliant. Our Risk Management team provided observations on the test results and advice on possible remediation options.
Hyde decided that they would procure the remediation works by means of a design and build contract. Axis Europe approached Frankham to partner with them to provide the design.
Part of the brief was to substantially retain the aesthetics of the towers as this was a requirement of the local Town Planning Department. The works comprised removal of the existing external wall insulation system back to the original substrate.
Our architects have been monitoring the development of the industry approach to fire safety in higher risk buildings over 18 metres height both prior to and since Grenfell.
We have been honing our solutions to meet the latest informed opinion and this has been incorporated into this design.
Our fire technical advisory services support the design capability to provide an integrated approach in this niche expertise.
We have created a working team internally and with our clients. We will use this knowledge and experience in our approach for further re-cladding opportunities to come.
BSc (Arch) BArch (Hons) RIBA RIAS ARB
