Metsec’s SFS steel framing system has helped to create a seamless finish to the façade of a new state-of-the-art custody centre and strategic policing hub for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

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A requirement in Corstorphine Wright’s design brief was to avoid horizontal movement joints in the finished façade, which would have been the result had a traditional SFS Infill to concrete frame approach been taken. Working with Willmott Dixon at the early design stages of the contract, Metsec’s in-house design team proposed a continuous walling solution formed from SFS to support glazing and rendered elements that would form the external skin of the façade. Metsec’s solution included the use of fixing cleats to connect the SFS continuous walling to the structure’s concrete frame.

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Metsec SFS infill wall with RCM Y-Wall sheathing board, Knauf plasterboard, Rockwool Duoslab insulation

Metsec SFS infill wall with RCM Y-Wall sheathing board, British Gypsum Gyproc plasterboard, and Rockwool Duoslab insulation

Metsec SFS infill wall with Siniat Weather Defence sheathing board, British Gypsum Gyproc plasterboard, Rockwool Duoslab insulation

Metsec SFS infill wall with OBEX CORTEX 0270FR sheathing board, British Gypsum Gyproc plasterboard

Metsec SFS infill wall with RCM Y-Wall sheathing board, and Knauf plasterboard

Metsec SFS infill wall with Klasse G-Board sheathing board, British Gypsum Gyproc plasterboard

Metsec SFS infill wall with Siniat Weather Defence sheathing board, British Gypsum Gyproc plasterboard, Knauf Rocksilk RainScreen insulation

Metsec SFS infill wall with Knauf Windliner sheathing board, Knauf plasterboard, and Knauf Rocksilk RainScreen insulation

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