Cladding & Sheeting

On Arsenal Football Club’s former Highbury Stadium site, Prater has completed the building envelope roofs for a new £170m residential development, Highbury Square. Highbury Square includes full-height glazed facades and raking steel canopy roofs. Green engineering and highly specified interiors have been incorporated. The development has two MIPIM (international property investment) design awards and has achieved a BREEAM EcoHomes ‘Very Good’ rating.

Prater completed its roofing work to the East, West and North blocks of the development within the time-critical programme, ensuring the interior work could start on time for the final hand-over of the project in mid-2009.

During Prater’s 50 weeks on-site, it supplied and installed Kalzip roofing, the rooflights, gable end cladding, parapet cladding, louvres and brise soleil, as well as a ‘lean-to’ roof, and mansard cladding.

Maher Muhyeddeen, project manager, Sir Robert McAlpine, said: “Ensuring the exterior construction was completed to time was critical to starting the interior work and project completion.

Phil Longley, project manager, Prater, said: “Working on such a prestigious project, in an iconic setting like Highbury, was very exciting. To provide natural light to the interiors, we installed 18 Schuco 2m by 4m rooflights. 600m² of aluminum brise soleil was also incorporated to ensure shading from direct sunlight for the upper windows of the blocks.”

Sustainability features 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.

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