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Latest News
June 2006 - "Finally PFI Approved"
The Chalcots Estate, Camden, designed by Dennis Lennon and Partners and built in 1965-70 has recently been granted PFI approval after almost seven years of consultation with Government. With an injection of £65 million from central Government this £100 million plus well documented PFI renovation project, was one of the first to be put forward under the new PFI scheme back in 1999. Included in the new scheme will be a complete overcladding of the five tower blocks which will be supplied by UK overcladding specialist CEP Architectural Facades. Designed by HTA Architects, the revised and now approved PFI scheme, will compliment the original architects designs which graces the North London skyline.
The existing roofs, cladding and windows have failed after 30 years and this overcladding element of the renovation will be first to be completed before internal finishes and services can be installed.
The overcladding sub-contract awarded to CEP, will be the largest single project entered into by CEP Architectural Facades. Materials supplied by CEP Facades include 4 300 dual colour, top hung, Schuco composite windows, which is equivalent to 17 870 square metres of glazing and 28 000 square meters of rainscreen overcladding. CEP's direct Fixed 'Etalbond ACM' has been specified for the rainscreen panel which is fixed onto CEP's aluminium support system and includes integrated horizontal and vertical fire barriers.
The main contract has been awarded to Rydon Construction. The scheme will begin on site later this year and will prove to be one of the largest overcladding projects of its kind in the UK.
January 2006 - CEP "Flying High"
CEP have been awarded the contract to provide replacement aluminium windows to R.A.F. St Dunstans Home for the Blind. Due to the exposed seafront location the new windows, in addition to having an anodised finish, will also incorporate high performance double glazed units.
The contract, worth circa £500,000, will commence in March and be completed by September 2006
November 2005
CEP along with their partners Dew Construction have been awarded a prestigous contract by Countryside properties to provide a new external envelope to the former Morris House building in Swainson Rd London. The contract circa £3.8 million is due to commence in January 2006 and will incorporate approx 4000m2 of glazing, and approx 5000m2 of cladding including Strata Nature and ACM panels
April 2005CEP are proud to announce the installation of a new CNC machine at the headquarters and fabrication facility at St. Helens. The new machine which is capable of accurately machining aluminium profiles of up to 7 metres in length.
The CNC machine which is installed on the shop floor is linked to the computer network which allows machining preparations to be designed in the drawing office and transmitted to the machine over the network which both speeds up the machining process and reduces possible errors over traditional machining methods.
The new machine is expected to improve output and has not been installed at the cost of any jobs at CEP, quite the opposite, as the speed of machining increases more staff are required in order to keep up with production.
