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Figure 3 top: Cast stone
detailing successfully
replicates the grandeur
of a Victorian façade.
Figure 4 above right:
The impressively
detailed entrance to
the Somerset Legion
House.
Figure 5 above: The
design has created an
imposing appearance in
a prominent location.
Figure 6 far right:
Intricate window and
balcony details are a
feature throughout the
project.
The benefits of integrated teamwork
Close collaboration between Forticrete, factor Taylor
Maxwell, Armstrong Burton Architects, and contractor
ROK Group enabled the complex design, production,
delivery and construction of the cast stone components to
be optimised over a two-year period, ensuring that the programme
was completed to schedule.
Continuous liaison between Forticrete’s dedicated
project manager with the architect and the supply chain
ensured that the thousands of individual cast-stone components
were designed, produced and scheduled to site in the
optimum manner, to create efficiencies in cost, supply and
build. Specifically, Forticrete’s close working partnership
with Taylor Maxwell ensured that the complexities of production
and logistics issues of just-in-time deliveries to site
were handled effectively.
The success of the project has been recognised by all
parties and has led to Forticrete, via Taylor Maxwell,
becoming Pegasus’ preferred supplier of cast stone for all
future projects.
Pegasus Lodge, a building with 14 two-bedroom apartments,
was the first to be completed and used as a marketing
suite. Pegasus Court, with 54 one- and two-bedroom apartments,
and the British Legion Hostel, a short-stay welfare
break facility, were both completed in late September
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Reproduced f ro m CONCRETE December 2008/January 2009 © The Concrete So c i e t y, 2008