Adam Architecture specified top performing steel windows and doors for its new Levine Building development at Trinity College, Oxford
A new building in the grounds of Trinity College, Oxford illustrates how top environmental performance can be achieved alongside a traditional aesthetic.
The Levine Building is, in fact, a cluster of four new buildings. It was designed by Adam Architecture in what it calls a 'restrained classical manner' to harmonise with the surrounding conservation area, which includes listed structures.
It is the first major building project to have taken place at Trinity College for more than 50 years.
A theatre seating 200 people, study bedrooms for students, teaching rooms, kitchens and ancillary space have been created in the new three-storey building.
Stone-faced elevations have been finished in honey-coloured ashlar limestone to complement the heritage setting. The building also features a pitched, slate-covered roof.
Steel window specification at the Levine Building
The architects specified thermally broken T60 steel windows from iconic manufacturer Crittall and they have made a major contribution to the building’s sustainability credentials.
This was the first time Niall Kelor of main contractors Gilbert-Ash had worked with Crittall. He was pleased with the experience and the result.
'It all worked very well. The installation team of just two guys were great,' he says. As to the end result: 'There is a good colour contrast between the windows and the ashlar. The client is very happy.'
The T60 windows are set within stone surrounds and finished in a bronze-coloured Duralife polyester powder coating. Many are fitted with trickle ventilation.
Triple glazing is installed in the windows of the theatre auditorium for improved sound attenuation. T60 features an advanced high-density polyurethane isolator as a thermal barrier that, together with double or triple glazing, surpasses the requirements of current regulations.
The cold-formed steel profiles retain Crittall’s hallmark slender sightlines to ensure maximum light ingress.
The Levine Building project also features Crittall cold-formed doors and internal fire screens on ground and first floors.
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