Fylde View, Blackpool

Fylde View, the new seven-storey Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Office Block is the third phase of Blackpool’s Talbot Gateway Development, creating a central business district providing educational and traditional work placements and community engagement as part of the town’s regeneration programme.

Kawneer’s AA^®110 Curtain Wall Zone-Drained System was chosen – a 65mm wide system and with a fully developed and tested enhanced movement/expansion joint. Using its Increased Weight Capacity Console, Kawneer undertook a stringent process of interrogating the structural model to refine the deflections that resulted in the conclusion that bespoke brackets had to be incorporated into the assembly, allowing the curtain wall to be ‘jacked’ during installation. As the facetted, curved-effect curtain wall was loaded, the structure and curtain wall would theoretically deflect, so the brackets would allow the glazing system to be lined and levelled.

A terracotta precast concrete off-site solution, including Kawneer AA^®720 Hi Reflex Plus windows, simplified and sped up window installation, greatly reducing site assembly requirements.

Kawneer’s AA^®190 TB all-purpose door with Kawneer 451PT framing was selected for front and rear entrance doors.