Glass ventilated facade MANCHESTER CIVIL JUSTICE CENTRE

aluminum

This 16-story courthouse - situated in the “Spinningfields” area in the Manchester city center - is approximately 81 m high, 30 m wide and 130 m long (266 ft high, 98 ft wide and 426 ft long). The building is clad with 5 different types of curtain wall covering over 31,000 sqm (333,700 sq ft). The unitized spine wall façade has been externally clad with Alpolic® panels (aluminum compound material). The atrium wall is designed as a suspended double-skin all-glass face. The finger wall is a double-skin façade. Sheets and profiles are powder coated in different colors. The east wall is a unitized façade with perforated sheet units attached from the outside. The ground floor has a recessed unitized façade with powder-coated aluminum sheets. The windows are executed as operable top-hung, open out and drop windows. Scope of Work 31,800 sqm (342,300 sq ft) of curtain wall.