ADVERTORIAL POLYPIPE
Custom Drainage System Clicks Perfectly on Former Kodak Site
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Eastman Village is an ambitious, multi-phased project built on the old Kodak factory site in Harrow, with Polypipe Building Services (PBS) currently providing drainage systems for 474 flats, across four towers – working with M&E Contractor, Millharbour on behalf of Barratt London.
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Images 1-3: Terrain FUZE is made of HDPE, incorporates an extensive range of fittings and is very customisable
THE PROJECT will deliver a complete new
very customisable. Terrain FUZE is also
conventional systems. One person can carry
urban neighbourhood of over 2,000 homes
lightweight and highly resistant to impact
an entire stack section compared to cast-
together with workspace, retail and leisure
and abrasion making it the perfect system
iron which would require a team in itself.”
facilities. The new homes include 40%
for the high-level pipework in the basement.
affordable housing and a new healthcare
This meant that a single system could be
at Millharbour, adds: “Polypipe
facility.
used seamlessly for the whole building,
Building Services have such a complete
while providing a tailored solution that
understanding of the different techniques
could be installed rapidly.
available for jointing drainage stacks
The project is highly specified and carefully designed and incorporates many community amenities. The building layout
The Polypipe Advantage Prefabrication
Andy Stylianou, Company Director
which, together with their prefabrication
is therefore quite complex, requiring a
Team created a design that combined butt-
capability, meant that we were able to
considered approach to how the M&E
welds and expansion joints. The complex
design a system that made quite a complex
elements deliver all the facilities. The
stack design could therefore be installed
installation completely straightforward.
drainage system brief was therefore
with just a single Electrofusion coupling on
Because the amount of on-site jointing work
challenging in that the bathrooms were
the ground floor to connect the stacks to the
was minimised and the system was robust
highly specified, but the build schedule was
high-level pipework in the basement.
but lightweight, we could use the available
Robert Bruce, Technical Sales
manpower very efficiently. A smart solution,
also very ambitious.
Manager for Polypipe Building Services
and we’re very proud that it was Highly
to use a prefabricated approach to the
in London explained: “Prefabrication and
Commended at this year’s Offsite Awards.”
installation to hit project deadlines, with a
careful design really helped deliver the
highly customised system that would fit the
customisation and streamlined installation
bathroom design specification.
that the project demanded. After the
The Client, Millharbour Group, decided
Following an initial analysis, Millharbour
high-level was installed with the single EF
worked closely with PBS to create a bespoke
coupling at the bottom of each stack, the
solution. It was decided that Terrain FUZE
guys could just drop each floor section of
would be the ideal system for the project.
stack down into the expansion joint below.
Terrain FUZE is made of HDPE, incorporates
And being so lightweight, Terrain FUZE is
an extensive range of fittings and is
also very manpower-efficient compared to
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