Eco Community Centre, Kilmacolm
The contract involved supplying SIPs roof panels that were to fit onto a glulam frame erected by the main contractor. Ogilvie approached two local suppliers who were not prepared to undertake the contract due to the complications involved in cutting the panels and ensuring that the cut panels fit accurately onto the glulam frame, this being practically important along the valleys. Working along side the timber engineers, Donalson & McConnell, who provided the glulam frame and three sets of CAD drawings later all parties were happy with the final dimensions. The painstaking work up front, double checking dimensions to confirm the glulam frame position coincided with the joints in the SIPs panels paid off and the erection, once underway, could not have proved simpler.
Development factfile
Client: Kilmacolm Community Centre Limited
Contractor: Ogilvie Construction Ltd., Pimhall Business Park, Scotland
Architect: Holmes Partnership, 89 Minerva Street, Glasgow
SIPS Started: 23.4.2010
SIPS Completed: 30.4.2010
Project Address: Lochwinnoch Road, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland
INTERESTING FACT: Roddy Morrison, the site manager, was impressed with how accurate the panels were cut and how simple the panels proved to erect. The panels were installed by Ogilvie's own site joiners and despite having no previous experience of SIPs, they had no problems erecting the roof - they simply followed the drawings we issued.
The materials
Walls and roof: Supply only of 142mm Kingspan TEK Building System (SIPs)
Roof Tiles: Natural Slate Tiles to match existing building.
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