Stonecutter Court – Last Unitised Panel
Celebrating the last unitised panel going up on Stonecutter Court! A significant milestone and a fantastic achievement, congratulations to all involved! FMDC Ltd | Focchi Group | Mace | tp bennett | CO-RE London | Ivanhoé Cambridge hashtag#facadeengineering hashtag#facadedesign hashtag#londonconstruction hashtag#londonprojects
Matt Williams Joins FMDC
We are delighted to welcome Matt Williams to FMDC Ltd. Matt joins as an Associate Director, after spending 18 years leading and delivering globally significant façade engineering projects for the global engineering firm Arup. With a particular focus on commercial office, corporate headquarter, life science and higher education, and historic building renovation projects, Matt has […]
Belgrove House Testing
FMDC Ltd’s André Ramalhinho recently visited SCHINDLER façade solutions‘ factory, to witness a performance test for the timber unitised curtain wall system, as well an impact test for the glass louvre system forming part of the cladding of Belgrove House, a life sciences building by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris architects for developer Precis Advisory Ltd. […]
105 Victoria Street Testing
FMDC Ltd’s Irene Mantovani recently visited Josef Gartner GmbH’s factory to attend a resilience test for the parallel opening vents part of the unitised curtain of 105 Victoria Street, an office building by KPF Architects for Client BGO. FMDC Ltd are currently working in an advisory role to Main Contractor Skanska, assisting with the delivery […]
Arding & Hobbs Visit
FMDC Ltd recently visited the brilliant, recently revamped Arding & Hobbs building in Clapham Junction, at the kind invitation of Stiff + Trevillion Architects. Many thanks again to Stiff + Trevillion Architects for this great opportunity and a very special thanks to Lance Routh for his time and his detailed and very informative tour of […]
Arding & Hobbs
The Arding & Hobbs building in Clapham Junction is an early 19th century department store and a much-loved example of retail architecture of that era. Stiff + Trevillion Architects were tasked with the refurbishment of this former local landmark for developers W.RE. Their careful intervention restores the tired original building to its former glory, preserving […]
Visit to Delft University of Technology
FMDC Ltd’s Lefteris Siamopoulos recently visited the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to help the students with their MEGA design project, a part of the MSc Building Technology, a project through which multidisciplinary teams are formed by students to design a high-rise building. Lefteris gave a presentation showcasing some […]
The Fitzrovia
The installation of the terracotta, brick and stone-faced precast panels manufactured by DECOMO with pre-glazed infills by VGV Façades is now complete on The Fitzrovia, a new office and residential building by Stiff + Trevillion Architects. FMDC Ltd‘s involvement started at design stages and is currently ongoing in a novated capacity to Kier Group, the […]
2-3 Finsbury Avenue
Exciting, busy period for 2-3 Finsbury Avenue, a major high-rise project by 3XN/GXN Architects for British Land, with Performance Mock-Up testing and a Visual Mock-Up inspection both recently taking place. The unitised curtain wall with intricate cladding nodes will be supplied by cladding contractor Focchi Group and Sir Robert McAlpine are the Main Contractor delivering […]
AJ Article
Interesting article in the Architectsjournal on the reuse of stone on 81 Newgate Street by KPF architects. FMDC Ltd‘s contribution in our capacity both as façade engineers and geologists was key to make stone reuse happen on this project. The stone reuse journey started with FMDC Ltd carrying out surveys of the existing facades, determining the existing stone sizes and matching […]
