50-60 Station Road

Client: Brookgate Property
Main contractor: Galliford Try
Installer: Dane Architectural
Engineer: Mott MacDonald
Architects: Grimshaw
Scope of work: Grade 18P GRC

50-60 Station Road offers state-of-the-art office accommodation in a building that could best be described as a hybrid of modern design that sympathetically identifies with the architectural heritage of its environment.

The well-established annual Schüco Excellence Awards for Design and Innovation which recognises outstanding contemporary architecture throughout the UK and Ireland, awarded this landmark project, winner in the 2020 Commercial Building category

Buildable

Working in collaboration with façade specialist Dane Architectural enabled the design to be developed towards a light weight facade solution that combines GRC fin shaped columns and feature beams fixed directly over areas of the curtain wall grid system at locations where insulated panels were present.

This strategy had several advantages, in the first instance a weather tight structure was provided early on in the programme, whilst the GRC facade option provided a much lighter solution that provided significant savings in both cost and time. The access strategy, based on mast climber platforms adapted to include lifting beams, enabled glazing and GRC panels to be hoisted swiftly into position.

Designable

Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete was chosen for its durability and sustainability attributes in addition to it providing the perfect material that would replicate the tonality and look of soft stone and at the same time allow precise sculptural form.

Further considerations to the GRC design included the decision to only use three different types of fin profile. This enabled both quality and consistency associated with maximising efficiencies with high repetition in the manufacturing process.

Sustainable

Despite the numerous challenges identified and remedied during the lengthy time-scale from inception to completion, the building managed to achieve a BREEAM “Excellent” rating.

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