Haymarket Buildings 4 & 5, Edinburgh
The Project
From working alongside Sir Robert McAlpine, Foster & Partners & QMile at the very early stages of the project right up to concluding the supply, design and installation of the seven storey, glazed atrium, Haymarket has seen Indeglas build strong relationships and provide significant input into the success of the wider site team.
Haymarket Square provides world class accommodation with unrivalled panaromic views around Edinburgh but, for Indeglas, it’s true success lies in the building’s ambitious design – with delicately thought out and superbly executed detailing sitting seamlessly within a large-scale atrium.
Indeglas, our manufacturing partners, Fosters and Sir Robert McAlpine proved that working together achieves exceptional standards with samples, mock-ups and site visits providing real impetus to go the extra mile for each other.
This was demonstrated, none more so, with the construction of fully bespoke, imposing but subtle mild steel, glazed screens at the atrium’s scenic lifts and the integration of glazed doorsets that push the bounds of manufacturing technology without ever losing sight of the importance of combining performance, quality and exceptional workmanship.
Haymarket is undoubtedly a finished product that everyone involved across all trades can be proud.
Scope of Works
- Glazed Atrium
- Fire Screens
- Automatic Sliding Doors
- Acoustic Glazed Doors & Ironmongery
- Freestanding, Steel Glazed Barrier Screens
The project was designed to meet the highest environmental standards utilising systems designed by our supply partner, Deko. They hold an EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) for the FG & FG2 systems utilised throughout the building.
Sustainability was at the centre of the project’s logistics plan and we utilised our own, custom made steel stillages throughout the works to ensure that even the handling and packaging of materials left as little impact as possible.
With the construction of any seven storey atrium there is much to be considered in terms of structural design, sequence, access and logistics. In this case, the co-ordination of all trades works dovetailed with changes in programme and various design events that provided obstacles to progress but were overcome successfully due to our strong relationships with the main contractor