Dales Fabrications Ltd - Aluminium Eaves Products

Using two different finishes on the aluminium eaves cladding on this new restaurant for star chef; Tom Sellars, Dales achieved a clever distinction between the raw edges of the building and its ends with large, anodized panels on the raking soffit a noticeable contrast to the vertical matt finished polyester powder coated gable end panels. Matt Flannery: Spacecraft Architects: “Dales were a good team to work with, and were a critical part of the design workshop…Despite the complexity of the canopy, I think everyone would be in agreement that it is definitely one of the highlights of the finished scheme.”

Project type: Commercial Offices Development cost: £11m Product: Anodised Aluminium Raking Fascia & Secret Fix Soffit Panels, Modulated Finish: Anodised to UA-150-0 Blue colour Shade Client: Aviva Architect: Scott Brownrigg Architects Main Contractor: Gilbert Ash-NI Ltd Sub Contractor: Alufix

Location: Barnet, London Project Type: Housing Development Cost: £26m Product: Balcony Soffit Cladding Finish: RAL 7022 Matt Client: Redrow Homes Architect: Fourpoints Architects Main Contractor: Barratt Developments Plc Sub Contractor: Balguard Engineering Ltd

Meridian Coping Curved to 2-Radii: Aluminium Fascia soffit: Monocoque Support : Hidden Gutter & Contempoary Diameter Rainwater Pipe. Location: Bingham, Nottinghamshire Project Type: Eccleasiastical Development Cost: £1.6m Product: Meridian Coping Curved to 2-Radii: Aluminium Fascia Soffit; Monocoque Support System: Hidden Gutter & Contemporay Diameter rainwater Pipe Finish: RAL 7043 Matt Client: Bingham Methodist Church Architect: Allan Joyce Architects Main Contractor

Dales designed & manufactured curved aluminium solar shading units installed above digital advertising screens positioned over each side of the Hyde Park Corner underpass near Knightsbridge. The 260mm Shadex elliptical aluminium blade extrusions were rotated 45° and then curved to multiple radii horizontally before being manufactured into cassettes. The complete structure covers an area 15 by 13 metres with the cassettes bolted into cantilevered structural steels. Gary Newton, Director for Outdoor Plus, providers of the digital screens commented that the curved solar shades: “..certainly do finish it off to a very high specification adding to the overall high-quality aesthetic appearance”

Location: Acton, London Project Type: Housing Development Cost: £160m Product: Balcony Soffit Cladding, Meridian Copings, 101.6 Dia & 76.2 Dia Contemporary Rainwater Finish: Interpon YW255F Golden Beach (Balcony Soffits), RAL 7016 Matt (Meridian Copings & Rainwater Pipes) Client: Countryside Properties Plc Architects: A&Q Partnership (London) Limited Main Contractor: Countryside Properties Plc Sub Contractor: Roweaver Developments Ltd

A stunning multi-storey development of one and two bedroom contemporary apartments at Empress Heights in Southampton for Crest Nicholson, designed by HNW Architects boasts bespoke aluminium bullnose fascia soffits, with integral gutter and monocoque support, as well as aluminium rainwater pipes, all designed and manufactured by Dales Fabrications - the UK's leading manufacturers of aluminium eaves products - and expertly fitted to a high quality standard by Dales' Preferred Fixers: Roweaver Developments Limited.

Location: Solihull, West Midlands Project Type: Hotel, Leisure Product: Spalding-Micropanel Material: Solid Sheet Aluminium 1050 AlloyFinish: Syntha Pulvin Architectural Polyester Powder Coating System in RAL 8002 Matt, RAL 8004 Matt, RAL 8012 Matt and RAL 8016 Matt Other products: System Flashings, Weatherstruck Coping, Window Surround System (inc. Jamb, Head flashing & Cill flashing inc. ventilation) in Syntha Pulvin RAL 7016 Matt, Column-Casings Syntha Pulvin RAL 7001 Matt Support system: Helping Hand Bracket & Rails Architects: Nixon Development Consultants Contractor: T. N. V. Construction Ltd Sub Contractor: G. F. S. Supplies Ltd

The steel beams are 1000mm deep: The elliptical aluminium solar shade blades are 400mm and the blades span up to 5700mm. The exit door on the bottom left illustrates the scale of the installation. Replacement solar shade system designed and manufactured by Dales Fabrications Limited and installed by Roweaver Developments Ltd

Project Type: Cinema Location: St Catherine's Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire Product:Shadex 150 Brise Soleil Finish: RAL 7046 Matt Support method : First Fix Brackets & Isol8 Chucks: Curtain-Walling Mullions Architect : N.B.D.A Contractor: Optimus Architectural Ltd

A £1.1 million renovation at Beths Grammar School in Bexley, Greater London included a new ultra-modern reception with full height glazing. Ingleton Wood LLP architects specified aluminium solar shading by Dales Fabrications with the Shadex 260 elliptical blade to reduce solar gain and solar glare. The Shadex 260 blade because it is self supporting up to 5m centres, making it ideal for the apex of the very large over-hanging canopy above the new main entrance. It was specified in combination with a low maintenance curved Aluminium Fascia Soffit and Meridian wall coping system, both manufactured by Dales.

Architects Cassidy & Ashton specified Dales Fabrications Limited to supply 260mm elliptical aluminium solar shades, elliptical aluminium fascia & secret fix soffits and rainwater pipes. Cassidy + Ashton said: “Cassidy + Ashton Group Ltd has worked successfully with Dales on many projects. The Refectory building at the historic Stonyhurst College site presented many challenges in delivering a modern building; surrounded by listed buildings, however the use of sympathetic materials in the design, along with implementation of Dales solar shades, and elliptical fascia with secret fix soffit systems, to create clean roof line profiles, all helped to achieve this successfully”.