Grants Precast

Aug 02

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St James Square – Uncovered

St James Square is a new era in precast excellence. To the eye it appears to all intense and purpose as though it is a hand set Portland Stone facade built traditionally. In reality it is Portland Stone cast onto high quality precast panels. To achieve this high level of quality without any of the normal large panel to panel joints associated with precast units, we have specially designed and detailed our system panels which have been cast to extremely high tolerances. The result of the time and care taken in our new precast factory is that the facade was built quickly on site and as you can see the finished product looks every inch as though traditional stone masons installed each and every stone. Quality by distinction.

Sep 04

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New Finishing Hall

Grants Precast are proud to unveil our latest development at our precast factory in Cadeby a brand new finishing hall. The new finishing Hall has been installed so that all our precast units may be finished to a high standard inside this new quality controlled environment. The demands of our production have necessitated this planned expansion to our factory. This new facility will benefit our clients in ensuring they receive panels finished to the highest standards possible.

Apr 04

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New Goliath Crane

Grants Precast continues to go from strength to strength and the next exciting stage of our development is already well underway with the installation of a 20 ton Goliath Crane in our newly formed storage compound.

Feb 04

by Grants Precast in News 0 comments tags: babmaes street, commercial offices, london, portland stone, precast concrete, st james square

St James Square – London

The project comprises the redevelopment of number 6 St James’s Square and 10-11 Babmaes Street to provide 112,000 sq ft of commercial offices, 13 residential units and a small art gallery. The new St James’s Square elevation of number 6 will be sympathetic to its neighbours and very much in keeping with the overall style of the square. It is being constructed using high quality Portland Stone on precast concrete panels specially designed to give a monolithic handset appearance. Grants Precast have manufactured the Portland stone and the Precast Panels at our new state of the art factories in Cadeby. It is the attention to detail which makes this high quality facade become the new bench-mark in stone on precast panels.

Aug 04

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Natural Portland Stone Structural Precast Columns

Another first for the Grants Group – August 2012. We have started the manufacture of 5m high precast structural precast columns, which are clad in solid Portland Stone. The Portland Stone rings are placed into our specially designed moulds and the structural precast concrete is cast inside. We have separated the stone and concrete so that although the Portland Stone columns look solid the stone is purely aesthetic and the engineered reinforced precast concrete is doing all the work. Grants Precast have been selected to produce these columns for a prestigious project at De Vere Gardens in Kensington, central London for their attention to detail and masonry skills in precast concrete. These columns are designed and constructed by Grants and are believed to be the first ever of this type of construction.

Aug 03

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Buchanan Quarter Glasgow

Branded as the Buchanan Quarter the scheme sits on a prime pitch on Buchanan Street, Britain’s second biggest shopping thoroughfare outside Oxford Street, and includes a pedestrian connection through to a secondary frontage on West Nile Street. Grants Precast are designing, manufacturing and installing the bespoke architectural precast facade to the flagship store Forever 21.

Jul 03

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Recruitment Drive

Due to the early success of Grants Precast we currently have vacancies at our factory in Cadeby for experienced precast professionals, in the fields of mould makers, reinforcement foremen and concreting foremen. So why not come and join a new successful team and give your career the boost you want? For further details see the careers section on this website.

Mar 03

by Grants Precast in News 0 comments tags: eco build, energy efficient, excel arena, lafarge, london, ludwig mies van der rohe

Grants Precast At Eco Build 2012

Grants Precast is producing the precast concrete panels and columns for the Lafarge Eco House being displayed at this years Eco Build 2012 Exhibition at London’s Excel. The event runs from Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd March – so why not come and have a look. From a sustainable construction perspective, there is no “ideal” building. The characteristics of an energy-efficient home can vary according to the climate, the building’s size, and its function or spatial organization for example. Lafarge have developed 20 simple rules for sustainable construction, which will be put into practice at next years biggest and best Ecobuild, these rules look at passive design measures to reduce energy demand, active renewable energies and other aspects of sustainable construction, including: 1. Select a compact building shape to minimize envelope surface area. 2. Opt for a building orientation and openings to reduce loses and increase energy gains. 3. Use high thermal insulation to reduce energy demand for heating and cooling. 4. Avoid thermal bridges to reduce energy losses. 5. Ensure superior air tightness of the envelope to reduce energy losses. 6. Integrate exterior solar shading devices to avoid excessive solar gains. 7. Select reflective roofs or green roofs to […]