Apartments
Modular Build System
Apartment construction has become increasingly popular as a modular build alternative to traditional steel and insitu concrete frame methods. The system adopted uses cross-wall construction in a similar method to the hotel construction system, but differs in that the variability of room layouts and external elevations require differing techniques and innovative thinking to produce fast-build economical solutions.
The options for apartments are both extensive and flexible providing key criteria in design are met. Precast Structures Ltd has broad experience in developing solutions for alternative construction, particularly suited to the Design & Build market.
Benefits include:
- Direct decorative finish to walls with only minor pre-decoration treatment, negating the requirements for wet plaster.
- Optional methods of floor construction, allowing flexibility for individual client requirements, including:
- Traditional hollow-core.
- Wide slab composite flooring.
- Pre-finished solid slabs.
- Direct soffit finishing in replacement of suspended ceilings, significantly reducing construction build costs
- Reduced structural zone without downstands.
- Construction of common stairs and lift cores as the erection progresses, permitting early access for subsequent trades.
- Pre-fitted windows.
- External pre-finished cladding panels, grey concrete inner leaf only, or curtain-walling / metal stud permitting total flexibility in elevational treatment.
Apartment construction is usually designed with traditional building solutions which are subsequently modified during the design process to obtain a competitive edge in Design & Build solutions. The benefits of early consultation with Precast Structures will result in significant savings in both cost and time, resulting from economical manufacture solutions and reduced erection periods.
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