Chichester College - UK
Chichester College (New Building 2007) www.chichester.ac.uk A Block has Classrooms and meeting rooms
Westgate Fields
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1SB
The Chichester campus has glorious views of the Cathedral and the front entrance has 200 metres of parkland and is used for picnics and outdoor sports. Chichester College is a great place to learn and 15,000 full and part-time students are currently enrolled there.
Designed by HMW Architects a local practice in Chichester www.hnw.co.uk
Aliva UK supplied 600sqm of Aliva Ceramic backing structure behind this Mirage Ceramic Granite Tile. The dimensions of the building were such that a standard 1200x600mm tile would not coordinate with the windows and bay sizes, this necessitated that every tile was trimmed in the factory to a smaller module. The Aliva Ceramic backing structure accommodated the new size with ease and it is in fact flexible enough to work with almost any size tile.
LSC Ltd did an excellent job in installing the facade and were very pleased with the flexibility of the Aliva Ceramic backing structure which they have used on many occasions since.
Aliva Ceramic Backing Structure has a built in tolerance to work within the building tolerances and allow a perpendicular facade no matter how imprecise the building structure is behind. L Shaped brackets are supplied from 40 to 260mm as standard in increments of 20mm, so almost any cladding zone can be achieved. Most brackets have a tolerance of +/- 20mm as standard when used with our 60x40x2.2mm L profile.
Our 6m horizontal rail is supplied pre slotted in the factory to allow for expansion and movement on site, meaning that site operatives don’t need to cut the rail down in length, nor create their own slots on site. The rail can be supplied in mill finish aluminium or black finish, as depending on joint size and tile colour you may or may not see the rail through the open 8mm joints.
Choosing an 8mm horizontal joint allows tiles to be replaced should there ever be the need.
Typically 4 undercut anchors are used per tile, Aliva provides the Kiel anchors to fit into these predrilled factory undercut holes. The anchors are secured to one of 2 different clamps, an adjustable or a fixed clamp. Adjustable clamps on the upper rail allow +/- 5mm vertical adjustment in the tile. On either side of one of the adjustable clamps blocks are installed either side to prevent the tile moving along the rail.
The college are delighted with the appearance of the facade; the Aliva Ceramic backing structure does an excellent job in perfectly aligning all the tiles and giving a clean crisp facade.
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