Leicestershire Fire Service HQ at Birstall is a fascinating building with 'fins' clad in a multitude of colours.
The project to build Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service headquarters and the fire station involved a significant capital expense -£11million, managed as part of the Service Development Programme. Alongside the internal project team, Pick Everard worked to provide architectural expertise and ensure that the buildings met requirements. The building has a multitude of colours in its ‘fins’ that fascinatingly changes colour in different lighting and polarisation. The new headquarters has been designed to create an open environment to encourage team working and allow teams to interact more freely. The building includes break out areas for less formal discussions, and fully functional conference and meeting facilities. The design is fully Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) compliant including a lift. The building has also been designed to be environmentally efficient and so will have lower maintenance and running costs. Norman & Underwood were employed by B&K Services Ltd to install the stainless steel facade cladding and liaised with Pick Everard Architects to realise their conceptual design using specialist facade cladding techniques to enable the random seam and shingle cladding. It included the supply and fix of 320m2 Rimex granex m1a colourtex green stainless steel shingles to the fins on each building and 350m2 of Rimex granex m1a colourtex green stainless steel random flat lock horizontal panels with Rimex granex m1a coloured black stainless steel between windows. The Leicestershire Joint Consultative Committee for the Building Industry gave the LJCC MERIT AWARDS FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP 2013. The project to build the fire station cost around £11m and completed on schedule on the greenfield site. The brief called for a high quality design solution incorporating distinctive architecture with an energy efficient building which would bring together the Fire Services fragmented support and admin staff in a centralised location.
Size: 4000px × 6000px
Location: Fire HQ, Birstall, Leicestershire, Midlands, England, UK
Photo credit: © Philip Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
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