PRATER Highbury Lives On Playing Host To New Fans
On Arsenal Football Club’s former 4 hectare Highbury Stadium site,
Prater has completed the building envelope roofs for a highly
desirable new £170 million residential development, Highbury Square.
Preserving the old, and introducing the new, the development will
attract many more admirers to this legendary home of football.
Highbury Square includes full height glazed facades and raking steel
canopy roofs. To retain the atmosphere of the spectator terraces
around the landscaped former pitch, ‘green’ engineering and very
highly specified interiors are incorporated. The development already
has two MIPIM (international property investment) design awards and
has also achieved a BREEAM EcoHomes ‘Very Good’ rating.
Specialist building envelope contractor, Prater, completed their
roofing work to the East, West and North blocks of the development
within the time-critical programme, ensuring that the interior work
could start on schedule for the successful final hand-over of the
project in mid 2009. During Prater’s 50 weeks on-site, the company
supplied and installed Kalzip roofing on the East and West blocks,
the rooflights, gable end cladding, parapet cladding, louvres and
brise soleil. On the new North block, Prater installed the
mono-pitch ‘lean-to’ roof, and mansard cladding.
“The 724 apartment Highbury Square project, which commenced in 2006,
has been carefully located within the exact footprint of existing
stadium,” commented Maher Muhyeddeen, Project Manager for Sir Robert
McAlpine. “Ensuring the exterior construction was completed to time
was critical to starting the interior work and project completion.”
The new design has retained the Art Deco facades of the listed
(Grade II) East and historic West Stands while demolishing and
replacing the North and South Stands. The pitch is retained as 2
acres of modernist landscaped garden over car parking, a gym and
power plant, while the new North and South blocks surround private
courtyard gardens.
“Working on such a prestigious project, in an iconic setting like
Highbury, was very exciting,” commented Prater Project Manager Phil
Longley. “To provide natural light to the interiors, we installed 18
Schuco 2m by 4m rooflights. 600 sq.m of aluminum brise soleil was
also incorporated to ensure shading from direct sunlight for the
upper windows of the blocks.”
The roof construction comprised 3000 sq.m. of Kalzip 50/429 aluminum
standing seam roofing (800sq.m. of which was curved), 0.8mm stucco
embossed over 1.0mm KD70 structural decking and 200mm Plus 35
mineral wool insulation.
Sustainability features of the development include a combined heat
and power plant, 240 solar panels (one of the largest private arrays
in Europe) and rainwater harvesting throughout, all contributing to
its BREEAM Ecohomes ‘Very Good’ rating.
This project follows the completion of the integrated roofing system
on the new Emirates Stadium in March 2006 where Prater installed
over 27,200 m2 of roofing, demonstrating their ability to help to
deliver a world class stadium.
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