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Jobsite: The Rivergreen Centre, Aykley Heads, Durham
Design Architect: Project Architects, Ruth Walters, Jane Derbyshire & David Kendall at Rivergreen Developments
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| Omega Contractor: Decke (Newcastle) Ltd |
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| Axiom Canopy |
| ENERGY SAVING: THERMAL MASS |
| The Rivergreen Centre has been designed as an eco-friendly building, using the thermal mass of the concrete to control the
temperature in the room instead of relying on air-conditioning and heating. Without the need to power these, the amount of
electricity being used is reduced significantly, lowering the building’s energy requirements.
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| The Concrete Centre (www.concretecentre.com) estimates that 90 per cent of environmental impact is from heating, cooling and lighting buildings. By installing Armstrong’s
Axiom Canopy clouds, it was possible to maintain the thermal mass while at the same time covering over the services and enhancing
the acoustic and light reflective properties.
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| Using BRE’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), The Rivergreen Centre was assessed on its environmental performance
in the following areas:
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| • Management: overall management policy, commissioning site management and procedural issues.
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| • Energy use: operational energy and carbon dioxide (CO²) issues.
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| • Health and well-being: indoor and external issues affecting health and well-being.
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| • Pollution: air and water pollution issues.
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| • Transport: transport-related CO² and location-related factors.
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| • Land use: Greenfield and Brownfield sites.
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| • Ecology: ecological value conservation and enhancement of the site.
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| • Materials: environmental implication of building materials, including life-cycle impacts.
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| • Water: consumption and water efficiency.
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Jobsite: CROUS University Cafeteria Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Shopfitter: S2A, in Issoire, M. Springer |
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| Design Architect: Mme Gay-Charpin |
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| Ultima Canopy |
| DESIGN & ACOUSTICS (UNIVERSITY / CAFETERIA) |
| Armstrong has renovated a university cafeteria with Infusions Panels and Ultima Canopies. The Instituts Français de Mécanique
Avancée (School for engineers) in Aubière near Clermont-Ferrand, France, needed a ceiling solution that would not only create
a fresh modern design in its American diner themed canteen but would also solve its acoustical problems.
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| SA2 Architects brought Armstrong in to create the space. With minimal acoustical treatments already in place, the canteen,
with a 350m high ceiling and rough concrete finish, suffered excess reverberance and noise build up, causing fatigue and stress
to staff and students. Voices and impact noises from tableware were most disturbing to the canteen users as they did not allow
for proper intelligibility conditions and comfortable conversation levels. Armstrong used Infusions panels and the Ultima
canopies range to provide a fast, clean and easy way to improve the acoustics and aesthetics of the space. Twelve Ultima canopies
(totalling 120 m²) were installed over the most noise criterial area, approximately 30 per cent of the ceiling area, ensuring
extra sound absorption. As the cafeteria is also regarded as a key social hub, S2A and Armstrong needed to increase its attractiveness.
Twelve Infusions panels were used in the design to add colour over a 60 m² adjacent space.
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| Armstrong Canopies were the perfect solution as they: |
| • Break the ceiling up visually.
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| • Reduce reverberation time and improve client well-being.
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| • Integrate a variety of materials (mineral, polycarbonate).
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| • Enhance modern design & end user comfort.
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| • Heighten the aesthetics using colour, translucency and light reflectance.
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| • Accentuate the ceiling space above the tables.
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Jobsite: Meeting Room, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
Design Architect: K_now |
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| Omega Contractor: CP2 and JTO |
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| Ultima & Orcal Canopy |
| LIGHT REFLECTANCE OPTIMISATION (MEETING ROOM) |
| A new conference room was designed with an acoustic challenge in mind. The meeting room had to meet excellent levels of intelligibility.
Design was critcial and a strong focus was placed on integrating services for the video, implementing an innovative lighting
setup and optimising energy consumption per m².
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| Due to the size of the room (4m x 7m), it was difficult to overcome intelligibility without amplified speech. On top of that,
the height of the ceiling at 3.50m created a large volume and a full glass wall partition introduced an acoustically reflective
surface that could also have a negative bearing on speech intelligibility.
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These constraints really were a creative challenge! To reach the required intelligibility, an Ultima ceiling was chosen to
ensure a good balance between sound absorption and sound attenuation. 4 Orcal canopies reduced the scale of the room and,
combined with low background noise levels, optimised speech intelligibility conditions. Not only do the Orcal canopies act
as acoustics baffles, but they also provide a large area for light reflectance with the Extra Microperforated surface enhancing
lighting efficiency.
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| The convex canopies were used to support the video projection system, therefore hiding the projector, associated wires and
maintaining the clean aesthetics of the room. An amplified sound panel, integrated in the 600 x 600 Ultima tile was installed
to relay audio from the video projector.
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Recycling programme (UK project)
Ceiling Contractor: RSD Systems Ltd
Specialist Contractor: SDD Exhibitions Ltd
Jobsite : Farnborough Air Show 2008 |
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| "Green Projects" (UK Recycling Programme) |
Armstrong has completed a successful recycling project at Farnborough Air Show 2008. Armstrong has recycled 2,600 m² (10 tonnes)
of Dune Supreme tiles from the show site to its UK manufacturing site in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The mineral fibre tiles
were specified by specialist contractors, SDD Exhibitions, for six temporary hospitality marquees.
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Armstrong has been using recycled raw materials and process waste to make its mineral fibre tiles for over a decade and has
now extended their ‘end of life’ recycling programme of 5 years to include most types of Armstrong mineral fibre tiles produced
after January 2000. These can be recycled using a process which involves breaking the old tiles down into a slurry and using
it as a raw material for making new Armstrong ceiling tiles.
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“The marquees at Farnborough become temporary headquarters for some of the biggest names in the aviation industry, so the
interiors have to be of a high quality and the ceilings are no exception,” explains David Humphreys, Project Controller at
SDD Exhibitions. “The Armstrong Dune Supreme tiles create an aesthetically pleasing ceiling while providing good acoustics
which is challenging in the noisy environment of the show. The Dune Supreme tile also met the higher levels of humidity expected
on the site. Additional confidence in the products performance was provided by the Armstrong Humiguard Lifetime Guarantee.
We are really pleased that Armstrong can provide both performance and environmental ceiling solutions”.
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Armstrong offers a free collection programme for loads of 1500 m² up to 3000 m² of used tiles
whenever it is environmentally and economically viable to do so.
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