CATEGORY WINNER
Summit Place , joint winner in the MiTek Light Steel Frame Building Category
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36 ANNUAL STEEL AWARDS
ummit Place is the first South African high rise office building where façade walls were constructed of LSF with ETICS external cladding . The 11 story office building incorporates 0.8mm LSF steel frames manufactured with window apertures , 60mm and 90mm thick EPS panels were used to form horizontal lines between windows and on the high upstand walls on the roof patio .
Several 2 and 3 storey office buildings at Summit Place , Garsfontein and Pretoria , had been successfully clad with LSF façade walls , with ETICS external cladding . It was no surprise when the architect , Boogertman & Partners , decided to use the same solution on the 11 storey office block , ' Building E ', in the same development .
In most of the earlier buildings , the architect specified slanting , ' gravity defying ' façade walls . With Building E , he decided to introduce curved façade walls , made possible by LSF . Saint-Gobains ' ETICS was used for the external cladding , as it is suited to curves , provides a durable external finish as well as insulating the office building to reduce the energy required for heating and cooling over the lifetime of the building .
EXCELLENCE IN LSFB LSFB is quick to install and carries precision . All of the 700 premade external windows fi ed into the allowed opening in the wall panels . The low mass of the LSF ETICS cladding eased logistics , and made handling on site a lot easier , requiring only a small team of artisans to do the installation . Due to the low waste factor , it has a small footprint in the building , allowing other trades to work in tandem .
This project uniquely captures all the benefits of LSFB , and hence it was selected to be a joint winner in the LSF Category of Steel Awards 2017 .
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