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Sapa Building Systems Ltd - SAPA window wall brings light to classrooms
An installation of Sapa Building Systems’
Dualframe Window Wall has transformed the classrooms of a South
Wales school.
A continuous run of storey height elevations for classrooms were
replaced with Sapa’s Window Wall in a project carried out by
Sapa fabricator Carreg Fawr after Newport City Council decided
to replace High Cross Primary School’s existing, poorly
insulated steel windows that were proving costly for the school
to maintain.
The specification of Window Wall offered several key benefits to
the School and the Council that all contributed to the success
of the project. The system’s concealed coupling detail ensured
that the sight lines of the new facade were kept to a minimum to
match the existing and therefore didn’t reduce the amount of
light entering the classrooms. The Window Wall frames completely
covered the space left by the existing timber subframes so that
‘making good’ of the surrounding walls was kept to a minimum,
thus reducing disruption and installation costs.
The classrooms face an exposed playground and so the commercial
doors that were integrated into the Window Wall all featured
drained, low threshold cills to provide high levels of weather
performance.
Both the School’s teaching staff and the council are delighted
at the improved outlook. Robert Law, Newport City Council’s
surveyor for the project, commented: We are delighted with this
project. All of the classrooms are now much brighter, far warmer
and drier and I know the school is equally delighted.”
Email: nicola.abbey@sapagroup.com