Colorcoat® Projects on Google Street View

My Dutch collegue has just sent across two links to Google Street View which show two projects featuring Colorcoat® products…

The first is Het Strijkijzer. Modelled on the famous Flat Iron building in New York, this building makes full use of Colorcoat® products in various profile configurations:

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The second is Waterwongingin Blaue Hart:

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Finally, i’ve had a quick look on street view and found the Ikea Store in Coventry, which uses Colorcoat Prisma® – go ahead, have a look around…

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Have you spotted any of your own projects in Street View that use Colorcoat? If so, show them off by posting a comment below…

Corus Colors wins at BEMA

Corus Colors has won the award for best campaign under £25k at this years BEMA awards. The Education campaign, focussing on pre-finished steel solutions for Educational buildings incorporated a series of print ads, a comprehensive brochure and a dedicated mini-site. To view the Education mini-site, click here.

About BEMA

The Built Environment Marketing Awards are an opportunity to compete against the best in the construction industry. The awards recognise creativity, innovation and effectiveness for marketing and business development in the built environment. For more information, click here

Education, Education, Education…

Its always nice to see ambitious colour schemes used on the building envelope, and the Niekee School in the Netherlands is certainly a great example of this. This school has recently won an award from the Dutch Ministry of Education. The school was visited and assessed on various aspects of sustainability, flexibility and physical durability of building use. The Jury also looked at how well the learning experience is translated through the building itself.

The Jury found that the Niekee school had a natural relationship between building and environment, with a striking colour scheme on the exterior, a beautifully designed entrance and a large atrium inside creating a vibrant and open area with balanced daylighting. A mixture of Colour, large open areas and good sustainability credentials meant that the Niekee school was a natural choice as one of the winners of the “Scholenbouwprijzen 2008″ …or School Construction Prize 2008.

The outside of the building uses all 27 standard colours in the Colorcoat HPS200® range (now superseeded by Colorcoat HPS200® Ultra, with a maintenence free Confidex® Guarantee of up 30 years (Now up to 40 years with Colorcoat HPS200® Ultra)

Do you think the UK (or indeed wherever you are) should have schools more like this? What are your thoughts on both the exterior and the interior of the school? Colorcoat HPS200® Ultra now has 40 standard Colours with many tonal shades in the range .

Take a look at our case study here with a focus on the exterior of the school, and an article on the whole building (including interior images) here. Any comments? Why not post your thoughts  - i’d be interested to hear them.

Some other useful links:

LIAG Architects (The Architects behind Niekee. The site is in dutch but theres some great images of the school on there).

www.niekee.nl The schools own website.

Case study and images on the colorcoat-online UK site.

Case study and images on the colorcoat-online NL site.

Education project case studies

I’ve added three new education project case studies featuring Colorcoat® Products to the website…

The first, Failsworth School in Manchester features Colorcoat HPS200 (now superceded by Colorcoat HPS200® Ultra) in conjunction with Corus panels and profiles Guardian® composite panel system. The second, Niekele Scool in the Netherlands, home to 600 students, features 27 standard colours on the building envelope from the Colorcoat HPS200® range. The third new project is Christelijke Basisschool De Kamperschouw, again in the Netherlands. This school makes use of Colorcoat HPS200® colours Poppy Red, Aztec Yellow and Solent Blue to create a vibrant environment for learning.

All Project case studies can be viewed by clicking here.

CE Marking, BREEAM and BS476 info updated..

I’ve just updated the colorcoat-online site with new info:

CE Marking

New updated info on CE Marking for self supporting metal profiled sheets

Breeam information

New section on BREEAM (Buildings Research Establishment’s (BRE) Environmental Assessment Method) – the UK’s leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.

BS476 information

This section has been brought back from the old site, as BS476 (fire info) was popular on the old site.