Some Recent project completed by Darke Tech are :-
 | Atrium Birmingham for Six Continents |
| Holiday Inn - Canopy for Fitzpatrick |
Please Select the required link - left - for further pictures of the project.
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Atrium Birmingham - Developed the Design and Built by Darketech |
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| The elliptical main stair cores shown in the pictures are of a mild steel construction each weighing 7 tonnes. | |
| Balustrades are stainless steel with timber treads and hand rails. | Each completed stair cost approximately £100,000. |
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| Due to the complexity of the core shapes (illustrated in the drawings) and the need for extreme accuracy and a high standard of finish, the cores were prefabricated at the Stilton works. | They were then transported to Birmingham. As each core was approximately 12 Metres x 3.6 Metres and a "Notifiable Load", police designated a route into Birmingham City Centre. Fleet Street was closed for the operation. |
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Whilst "Developing the Design" the 7 tonne cores were superimposed onto the client’s CAD drawings to ensure that we could get them into the building in one piece. We agreed a route through a large window, but then had to design and build two temporary cranes inside the building to move the structures to their final position in the Atrium. |
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Design and Engineered by Tony Darke (MD) D & B Darke Group. |
Once the cores were upright, we then used the same cranes to winch the 2.5 tonne prefabricated landings into position. |
| Each Canopy cost approximately £20,000.The completed
canopy was prefabricated at our Stilton Works and transported for
erection to the Holiday Inn site - Cambridge. A large mobile crane
was hired to lift the sections and the large toughened glass panels into
position. Developed the Design and Engineered by Paul Newall Project manager of Darke Tech Ltd. |
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All slides are courtesy of Darke Tech Ltd and the relevant clients.