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VISION MODULAR SYSTEMS/TIDE CONSTRUCTION APEX HOUSE WEMBLEY
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BEST USE OF VOLUMETRIC TECHNOLOGY
Apex House is a purpose-built student accommodation scheme with an eight-storey and ten-storey wing connected to a 29-storey landmark tower.
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It comprises 580 student bedrooms speed of a traditional build and the with state-of-the-art communal facilities fitted modules eliminate the need such as dining rooms, study areas, for wet trades such as plastering and common rooms and leisure facilities tiling onsite. External structural walls including a cinema room - all elegantly have insulation pre-fitted and with designed around an external courtyard their improved dimensional accuracy, INFRASTRUCTURE PRODUCT INNOVATION at basement level. The scheme has cladding progresses quicker. Post PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD been developed by Tide Construction completion acoustic and airtightness and Vision Modular Systems using their testing has demonstrated all rooms innovative, offsite modular system. meet or exceed requirements, The scheme was completed within demonstrating the improved quality a 12-month total construction control that can be achieved in a programme, with a total of 679 manufacturing environment modules installed in just 13 weeks, ensuring handover to the client in Once the RC core was complete, August 2017 for the new academic the modules were installed at a rate year. The development of the building equivalent to two floors of living caused minimum disruption and accommodation per week, over pollution to the area - given the offsite 29 storeys. This facilitated rapid construction methodology, waste was completion of the building sections significantly reduced, and the scheme to allow for follow on works to begin. received a BREEAM Excellent rating. The use of the VMS volumetric system results in excellent acoustic Apex House is acknowledged for not performance, achieving a minimum only being a technical leap forward for 5dB better than building regulations. modular volumetric offsite construction The concrete floor with the unique but also a catalyst in the dramatic party wall design consistently provides regeneration of Wembley. The two-hour fire resistance. volumetric solution was the only viable means of delivering Apex House in the The project achieved full compliance time available. The use of the Vision to regulations and a BREEAM Excellent system was the key means of ensuring rating and most importantly, no the design and delivery teams met reportable accidents from a total of these requirements. 977,691 man-hours worked on this site. The Vision modules are structural components comprising a concrete PROJECT TEAM floor tied to the module external walls Architect: HTA Design LLP which are formed from structural posts MJH Structural Engineers that carry the vertical loads. All are Sustainability Engineer: connected together and tied back to Vector Design the concrete cores for lateral stability. Tide Construction Ltd The structure is erected at twice the
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