Pressing Matters
Manufacturing expertise is being pressed into action to help fulfil an expanding order book. Gilberts Blackpool, Britain’s leading independent air movement specialist, has further expanded its fabrication capacity with the installation of a new press brake. The new machinery doubles Gilberts’ capability to bend sheet metal at its 90,000 sq ft headquarters, and compliments the […]
Innovation Extends to Balancing Safety and Wellbeing in New Hospital
A new hospital is using materials and design innovation to deliver a quality experience for patients- even to the detail of smoke protection. The GRAHAM-Bam Healthcare Partnership (GBHP) has handed over the new £85million, 30,000m2 Inpatient Ward Block, completing the second phase of the £261million redevelopment of Ulster Hospital for South Eastern Health & Social Care […]
‘Outside The Box’ Thinking Helps Deliver Premier Development
The challenge of satisfying a “challenging” planning regime to minimise a new build’s impact has in part been met by out of the box thinking by supply partners. One of the issues facing developer Quora (Lewes) with its 3,600m2, three-storey, mixed use development in the heart of Lewes’ historic town centre was to balance airflow […]
Helping Make A Positive Contribution To Environment
The Combined College Boathouse on the banks of the River Cam is now contributing towards its environment- including its use of sustainable strategies. The new facility, for the Combined Cambridge Colleges of King’s, Selwyn and Churchill, together with Leys School, has been designed by RHP, to simultaneously deliver a building that met- or exceeded- the […]
Filtering The Options Extends Flexibility And Ensures Indoor Quality (IAQ)
Specifiers can tailor-make their internal environments using an innovative approach to ventilation devised by Gilberts (Blackpool) Limited. The UK’s leading independent air movement specialist has developed a range of modular ‘accessory’ boxes to integrate with its innovative hybrid Mistrale Fusion System (MFS) stand-alone ventilation. The concept enables easy addition of various filtration options, to the […]
Gilberts Helps Create The Right Atmosphere For Liverpool Fans
Football fans enjoying hospitality in Liverpool FC’s new Main Stand at Anfield are enjoying the atmosphere within, thanks to Gilberts’ engineering expertise. Consultant Jacobs Engineering recommended Gilberts’ grilles and diffusers, for M&E contractor Imtech to install as part of the design & build project for Carillion, under Phase 1 of the club’s stadium expansion programme. […]
Gilberts Helps Breathe Life Into Olympic Stadium
Corporate visitors to the former Olympic Stadium, now the home of West Ham United and UK Athletics, will enjoy a comfortable internal environment, thanks to British engineering expertise. Main contractor Balfour Beatty has spent two years transforming the iconic building to enable it to double up as home ground for the Premier League club, and […]
Technical Director conducts air performance demonstration
Gilberts Blackpool have again orchestrated some innovative grille and diffuser demonstrations for the benefit of their customers, this time with their Northern Ireland agent, WJ Hogg & Company. Roy Jones, Gilberts (Blackpool) Technical Director personally took up the baton to ensure a virtuoso performance. Accompanying Roger Hogg the Managing Director of WJ Hogg, were a […]
Blackpool Engineering ‘Enhances’ the Lake District
Blackpool engineering is helping Britain’s most remote theatre expand its revenue streams. For Theatre by the Lake in Keswick’s new £700,000 café, architect Aedas focused on a design that was sympathetic to the building’s location, by the foreshore of Derwentwater: wood, natural light and natural ventilation prevail in the monopitch structure which reaches 35ft at […]
Design On Learning About The Natural Environment
Connectivity between internal and external environments is going beyond the curriculum at a new school on the Isle of Sheppey: it is reflected even in the architectural design. Literally central to the ethos, at least as far as the building construction is concerned, is the utilisation of natural resources solutions from Gilberts Blackpool. The company […]