£40 Million, a Car Door handle & ThermConX??

The answer is the all new North Liverpool Academy . The recently completed, cold bridge free super school, - built on former playing fields within earshot of both Goodison Park and Anfield football grounds – took its’ design inspiration from a Jaguar car door handle.   The academy - which specialises in business, enterprise, mathematics and computing - is comprised of two teaching blocks, separated by the imposing 140m long, 15m wide, car-door-handle inspired steel structure.   Over 100 ThermConX A11-P75-200x200x80 thermal break connections were included in the development to provide cold bridge free support for the schools extensive roof pearlings.    Billington structures, the steel contractor for the development, faced an un-enviable task… The central steel structure alone took over 6 months to design and required a collossal 350 tonnes of structural steelwork.   "The forces passing through the handle structure are hugely complex", says Paul Hayes, Billington’s project manager. Tony Foster, project manager for Wates went on to explain how: “The design work needed for the handle was so involved that the two outer blocks were erected first, while the handle’s design was still being finalised.”   The thermal break connections required for the development not only had to remove all risk of cold bridging, but also had to be able to withstand huge shear, tensile and moment capacity loadings.   Enter ThermConX . A single ThermConX A11-P75-200x200x80 thermal break connection unit has a moment capacity of 13knm, shear capacities of 850kn & 475kn and a tensile capacity of 337kn.   The extreme loading capacities and cold bridge free support of ThermConX thermal break connections meant that they were the ideal (and only) choice to be used in order to support the buildings' roof structure.   The academy welcomed its first students earlier this year and looks set to continue the long tradition of nurturing and developing up and coming talent from the Liverpool area for many years to come.  

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