The complete range
of architectural glazing systems from leading UK manufacturer Kawneer feature
on a flagship
building for the University of Warwick.
Kawneer's AA®100
curtain walling, AA®541 windows, AA®720 doors and AA®100 slope glazing have
been used on the Mathematical
Sciences Building on the university's main central campus on the outskirts
of Coventry.
The zone-drained
curtain walling with 50mm sightlines, top and side-hung casement windows and
thermally superior doors feature throughout the lecture rooms while the series
190 heavy-duty doors have been used at the entrances and the zone-drained slope
glazing in the atrium.
They were installed
over five months by a team of six from approved dealer APiC UK for main
contractor Morgan Sindall and included extended vertical caps to the curtain
walling on the south-west elevation.
The
68,490ft2 building is a key strategic development for the
university, part of the Russell Group of Universities, which will enable closer
collaboration between its globally-recognised Computer Science, Mathematics and
Statistics departments.
The six-storey
building is structured around the main central atrium and caters for both
under-graduate and post-graduate students as well as providing a base for a
number of notable academic researchers including some working as part of the
high-profile national institute for data science, the Alan Turing Institute.
Located next to the
existing Maths and Stats building (Zeeman Building) and the Computer Science
building and primarily brick faced, it features superb lecture rooms and
student work areas, well-equipped computer labs, state-of-the-art technology
and a strong focus on sustainability.
Professor Colin
Sparrow, Professor of Mathematics and head of Warwick's Mathematics Institute,
said: "The University of Warwick's mathematical scientists have
substantial world-renowned reputations for pure and applied research,
developing new research programmes that make a difference globally.
"This new
facility will enable our three departments to grow and to work even more
closely together. In particular, it will allow us to exploit Warwick's position
as one of the five UK universities recently chosen as partners in the creation
of the Turing Institute, including interdisciplinary space for both research
and teaching in data science.
"It will also
allow us to bring our graduate training programmes closer together in a new
Mathematical Sciences Graduate School."
The Mathematical
Sciences Building was made possible thanks to a grant from The Wolfson
Foundation and donations by alumni and friends of Computer Science, Mathematics
and Statistics at Warwick.
The University of
Warwick has more development planned or underway at its campus in Coventry.
