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Blizzard single skin terracotta rainscreen façade system retrofits Manchester Tower Blocks
(19/05/2011)

City South Manchester Housing Trust had a dilemma: Faced with 11 aging and energy inefficient residential tower blocks in Hulme, should they demolish and re-build or refurbish and upgrade? Having made the decision to refurbish, the Trust decided to refurbish the existing towers using 7,500m2 of Terreal’s Blizzard terracotta rainscreen cladding for much of the external façade, which was specified and supplied by Lancashire Brick and Tile Ltd. The Trust’s two key aims for Phase One were to ... [more]

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