Award-winning manufacturer of Light Steel Framing Solutions, Fusion Steel Framing, has been brought on board as a contractor for a five-star housebuilder. The Hill Group and L&Q's car dealership in Kew Bridge Rise, Brentford.
Fusion will be fabricating 13,720sqm of its innovative TRAX™ product to form the steel frame system infill across five buildings of up to 18 storeys on the development.
TRAX™ is an economical non-loadbearing infill system and provides a custom design made with high-precision engineering, and exceptional thermal and acoustic insulation. This helps to create rapid dry-building envelopes on a range of building types using steel framing.
Kew Bridge Rise, located within the heart of the Brentford regeneration area, will deliver 441 new homes, of which 50 per cent will be affordable. Construction of the steel frame system has already begun on site, with the development expected to complete in 2026.
In 2022 Fusion was acquired by The Hill Group to advance the housebuilders' progress in offsite construction practises and more efficiently integrate light steel frames on developments such as Kew Bridge Rise.
The works at Kew Bridge Rise will involve Fusion forming the openings,applying RCM DensGlas external board, Kingspan K-Roc insulation and fitting of brick tie channels. It is expected that this stage of the development will take around 12 months. Fusion will manufacture TRAX™ at the company's 80,000sqft manufacturing facility in Northampton, which has the capacity to deliver over 30,000sqm of light steel each year. The company's engineers will then deliver and install the TRAX™ system at the Kew Bridge Rise site.
The development will have a concrete frame structure and TRAX™ will be used for the infill between floors, sitting on the floor slab up to the ceiling. In addition, Fusion will create the window apertures, providing a complete solution for the project.
The key advantage of using Fusions' TRAX™ system is the ability to rapidly accelerate construction projects while reducing risks during the process of installing a structural framework system. Hill and L&Q began on site in Brentford in September 2022. The project also includes a new public square, alongside significant investment in local infrastructure improvements.
The joint venture partnership will also provide a range of social benefits for the local area during construction, including investment in significant employment, training and community focussed opportunities.
Hounslow Council Leader, Shantanu Rajawat, commented: "Kew Bridge Rise forms a major part of our regeneration strategy for this area, revitalising a previous brownfield site to deliver vital new homes, improve the existing infrastructure and provide new amenities for the local community."It is exciting to see the rapid progress that Hill and L&Q are already making on site, alongside the training and employment benefits the project offers to local people."
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