T&T Facades’ latest remediation cladding project is the repurposing of a former student accommodation block to provide critical temporary accommodation for people across the city of Portsmouth.

Working with client Mountjoy and Portsmouth City Council, T&T is contracted to replace the existing combustible components and timber planks with aluminium wood effect PPC on the feature projecting panels, as well as replacement of spandrel panels and installation of new cavity barriers.

Located in the busy, commercial area of Elm Grove, the building will provide a vital service to the local community and is expected to be completed in late summer 2021.

Commenting on the project, joint company owner Tom Rutter said “we’re really pleased to be working with Mountjoy and to add another vital community project to our growing portfolio of remediation cladding projects“.

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T&T Facades is pleased to have been awarded a new cladding contract as part of the multi million pound redevelopment of the former Southwark Fire Station which is set to become a major mixed-use development branded Brigade Court.

Adjacent to Brigade Court will be the new “Grotto” site, where we will be delivering the cladding package for client Ardmore, on a 15,600 sq ft sports centre consisting of Arcelor Mittal composite panels and Rodeca Polycarbonate panels. The Grotto will have a multi-use games area and outdoor artificial pitch for use by both the new school and local community.

We have commenced the design and our installation team is expected to start on site early Spring 2021.

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, T&T Facades has been carefully adhering to the government guidelines and those of the Construction Leadership Council to ensure the safety of our staff, clients and suppliers.

As the virus has evolved and guidelines have been updated, we have needed to adapt our working practices. Below is an update of our initial statement.

Remote working

A significant part of our pre-lockdown preparation was extending the systems and processes we already had in place to enable our staff to work from home and remotely as required.  When working remotely, our teams have full access to all our IT systems – as though they were sat at their desk in our office. This technology served us very well during the first full national lockdown enabling the business to continue as ‘near normal’ as possible and continue to communicate effectively with clients and each other.

As the construction sector has been deemed essential by the government to keeping the country operating we will remain open and fully operational during this second lockdown period (November 5th – December 2nd) ensuring however we continue to follow all industry (CLC) and H&S guidelines. This will continue post December 2nd unless the government issues further mandates.

Health and well-being

We continue to send regular updates to our teams, following the guidelines issued by the Government and various health organisations. A small number of our vulnerable staff are still shielding with the full support of the business.

From the beginning of September we were able to ease the majority of our office workers back to our Fareham office having first put in the required safety measures which includes hand sanitisers and temperature checks on entry to the office, perspex screens between desks, re-positioning of desks to enable social distancing, regular deep cleaning, reducing face to face meetings and contact etc.

Phones and our switchboard

Our main office number (01329 889408) is manned during our standard office opening times (Mon-Fri, 8am-5.30pm). For enquiries outside of office hours please email [email protected] or speak to your usual contact directly.

Post

Where possible we encourage electronic communication, but we acknowledge that there are certain documents that can only be sent by post. Our office is fully open to accept post in accordance with our standard office opening times (Mon-Fri, 8am-5.30pm).

Our project sites

In accordance with the latest government mandate and guidelines, all our project sites are open, ensuring strict conformity with industry (CLC) and H&S guidelines, also adhering to the social distancing rules.

This of course is reviewed regularly in line with the regular government updates and the policies and decisions of our main contractor clients.

We are in close communication with our supply chain partners to keep them updated of our current situation.

Next steps

We are monitoring the fast-moving situation closely. We will ensure that we respond quickly, sensibly, and appropriately to any developments. We will update you all again if we have further substantial updates, but please do contact your main contact here if you have any concerns about your specific circumstances.

Tel: 01329 889408 / email: [email protected]

The Marriot group is increasing its portfolio of their Moxy brand ‘boutique’ hotels with a new establishment in Bristol. The new seven-storey, 214-room hotel, will be located at the foot of the M32 opposite the Cabot Circus car park.

The scheme has come from Dutch international hotel developer Vastint Hospitality and is reported to be one of just seven hotels of its kind in England.

Contracted by client Jehu Project Services, T&T Facades will design, supply and install the full façade on the project which includes a mix of Cement Rainscreen, Brick-Slip and Corten Cassette Rainscreen.

Commenting on the news, joint company owner Tom Rutter said, “we’re excited to be working with Jehu on this scheme, it’s a great looking project that plays to our strengths and one that we’ll be proud to include in our portfolio”.

T&T’s work will commence on site in October.

T&T Facades is pleased to announce winning a new facades contract.

Our team has been contracted by our client LST Projects to design, supply and install a full facades package consisting of SFS, Rainscreen Cladding and Glazing on a new Oncology department as an extension to Southampton General Hospital.

After an extremely rapid project pre-start we began on site this week.