With the success of earlier projects with DS Smith, GatorDuct were asked to supply a separate system to serve an area with high heat gains from critical machinery. The machines were required to be kept at a constant temperature and humidity and required a bespoke, accurately coordinated cooling distribution system. GatorDuct with it’s lightweight and Read More
Architecture
Manser Saxon, Dubai (Commercial Environment)
Manser Saxon are a large multi national construction company offering a variety of services including an expert interior design consultancy. Their management team in Dubai had seen GatorDuct through our local distributor and requested an installation in their HQ. With their heritage of interior design, it was imperative that aesthetics were at the forefront of Read More
Cundall Offices, Birmingham (Commercial Environment)
Cundall Consulting Engineers underwent an expansion of their Birmingham office. Cundall are world renown consultants for their cutting edge development of projects involving sustainable technologies and they had analysed GatorDuct throughout a number of their UK branches. Birmingham decided to utilise rectangular GatorDuct throughout their open office areas and chose a ‘bark effect’ on the Read More
AG Barr Project (Food & Drink Industry)
Brief: AG Barr engaged with by paradigm group to provide a sustainable design & build solution to their overheating problem experienced in three of their sites located in the UK, Milton Keynes, Cumbernauld and Strathmore. All projects incorporated evaporative cooling units mounted at roof level with GatorDuct as the sustainable air transportation system from plant Read More
Are cardboard buildings the future?
Cheap, environmentally friendly and easy to manufacture, the temporary cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand is being built out of it. So is flatpack housing the way forward? Cardboard? Really? It’s the common reaction to the idea of making buildings out of thick paper, such as the temporary cardboard cathedral announced for Christchurch, New Zealand, whose Read More
Cardboard Centre for Culture
While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Garage will occupy the pavilion during the entire construction period, which will see a 1960s building in Stalinist-era Gorky Read More