News: Horbury Building Systems in prestigious trade award hatrick

Rotherham construction specialist, Horbury Building Systems has been honoured with a prestigious industry award for complex partitions and drylining work for the third year running.

The subsidiary of The Horbury Group has received a Federation of Plastering and Drywall Contractors (FPDC) award in the Drylining Contract Over £1 million category on an innovative education project in Walsall.

This year's award follows Horbury's win in 2008 in the Drylining – Residential Category for their work on the Gateway development in the centre of Leeds. The previous year they received the Drylining Over £750k accolade for the £113m Manchester Civil Justice Centre.

Ian Syddall, contracts director of Horbury Building Systems, said: "We are thrilled to have won this prestigious award. The FPDC Plaisterers Trophy is one of the oldest industry awards, rewarding the highest standards of skill and excellence in plastering and drywall design and installation.

"This win is a real testament to the continued hard work and dedication of the whole team, who continually strive to deliver an exceptionally high quality service on major UK developments."

At the new Business and Learning Campus at Walsall College, Horbury Building Systems was employed as a specialist subcontractor to complete the installation of approximately 9000Lm of partitions and linings, 4000 sq m of ceilings along with associated building work, firestopping and patressing.

The centrepiece of the development is the atrium, which spans some 20 metres in height and provides a futuristic entrance to the five storey building. HBS installed all the partitions, linings and ceilings and ensured that the sound reverberation is minimised within the large open space.

The judges said in their citation: "On entering the atrium of this job you're met with huge curved ceilings abutting curved walls, exposed deflection heads, curved wall linings in perforated plasterboard abutting unfinished concrete – all very complex.

"The abutment of the two curved elements was critical and the job is first class. They've achieved the desired acoustic performance with a perforated ceiling the size of a football pitch."

The Horbury Group website
Rotherham

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