Customer description:Â Office Premises, Solihull.
Requirement:Â Replace existing Brise Soleil system
Overview:Â The client wished to replace the existing horizontally mounted canopies and replace them with a new system based on horizontal mullions and bird beak blade supports.
Solution:Â Aluminium Systems de-installed all of existing 300 mm wide elliptical louvre blades and horizontal mullions and removed them from site. A completely new system was then fabricated and installed, using a new 300 mm wide blade system, with GRP bird beak fixing brackets. The bird beak was designed specifically for the project, and integrated with Aluminium Systems proprietary mullion extrusion.
The challenges:Â The offices that the Brise Soleil shaded were fully operational, and had staff members using the premises on a daily basis. This meant that both the de-installation of the old system, and the installation of the new system had to be undertaken with members of the public nearby.
The project had to be carefully co-ordinated with the office staff to ensure their safety, whilst at the same time getting the project completed. This involved carefully planning all aspects of the work to be done, right down to the removal of mature shrubs and their subsequent safe replanting once the works were complete!
The project involved a considerable amount of weekend and evening work by installation and delivery staff, to minimise disruption to the everyday operation of the offices.
