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Whilst several gridshells have now been built using different technologies, none had until now been constructed to support a frameless glass roof. When we were approached by engineers Buro Happold to build a radical new roof for the orangery at Chiddingstone Castle, our inquisitive nature got the better of us!
Despite being a very traditional environment for a timber frame, the brief for this project meant that an entirely traditional solution was unlikely to fulfil it, but our Scottish timber framing and design team had an idea up their sleeve.
When the architect for this project design a curved sedum roof for the extension to this cottage he immediately assumed they would have to made from glue laminated beams. Our timber frame designers in Scotland had other ideas!
This £7.1m project, managed by Kier Southern, and completed in March 2006, provides the first re-homing centre for the Dogs Trust inside the M25.
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