"Durasteel® does the job, it’s approved, its great for fire integrity purposes and it’s a versatile product. We are happy with it and the high calibre service from Promat and Sharpfibre."
James Wraight, Design Manager Towns-Wadey
As part of the White City development, Wood Lane tube station will serve as key transport hub supporting the new £1.6 billion shopping and leisure centre. Wood Lane station, which is the first new station on an existing and un-extended Tube line for over 70 years, will be located between Shepherd's Bush Market and Latimer Road stations.
The project design team specified Promat DURASTEEL® as a solution for two elements of the station structure. These included two passenger lift shafts and both the east bound and west bound passenger escape staircases. Working for principle contractor Towns-Wadey, Sharpfibre carried out the design and installation of the lift shafts incorporating a twin skinned DURASTEEL® barrier fixed onto an arrangement of cold formed channels and angles. When completed, the two lift shafts incorporated in excess of 350m2 of Promat DURASTEEL® sheets and 16,000 specialist fixings.
The escape passenger staircases had a similar design structure based upon a twin skinned DURASTEEL® barrier which provide a safe means of escape for passengers in the event of a fire at platform level. Working this time for specialist façade contractor McGrath Group, Sharpfibre designed and installed a DURASTEEL® barrier solution consisting of 300m2 of DURASTEEL® sheets which needed to cope with being exposed to the environment.
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The newly constructed Wood Lane tube station.
