35 Bennetts Associates Mint Hotel Tower of London City of London, UK

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Horizontal Section
Wall Detail
1:20
1 Natural stone (Jura,
cross cut, bed 11),
panels bonded /
pinned to
prefabricated cladding
panel. Thickness: 40
mm (1 3/5 inch) to 140
mm (5 1/2 inch)
2 Vertical silver-
anodized facade
drainage channel with
removable cover panel
fixed behind stone by 3 mm (1/10 inch) 8 89 mm (3 1/2 inch) inch) marine ply. Edges 12 15 mm (3/5 inch)
panels galvanized steel angle thick prefabricated of ply full sealed with Gyproc Sound Bloc
3 60 mm (2 2/5 inch) top and bottom Panablock walls EPDM with Tyvec board, fully silicone
Kooltherm thermal 6 180 mm (7 1/10 comprising rigid vapour barrier over sealed
insulation boards with inch) prefabricated insulation with 18 mm 10 50 x 12 mm (2 x 1/2 13 Powerlon Vapour
vapour barrier, bonded structural concrete (7/10 inch) moisture- inch) marine ply Barrier
to back of twin-wall system resistant MDF bonded battens fixed to
prefabricated cladding between rooms with both sides, fixed to backboard overlapped
panel. All joints foil nominal 3 mm (1/10 structural frame on with EPDM and fully
taped inch) spray-plaster three sides with sealed around edges
4 Backing rod and finish on both sides proprietary channel 11 100 mm (3 9/10
mastic seal 7 12.5 mm (1/2 inch) system inch) Rocksilk
5 90 mm (3 1/2 inch) plasterboard internal 9 VM zinc clip-on RainScreen slab
thick firestop / lining fixed to panels on 25 mm (1 insulation fitted
acoustic insulation at proprietary framing inch) carrier system between ply and
slab level, contained behind fixed to 12 mm (1/2 Sound Bloc

35.08 thick Kooltherm

Horizontal Section thermal insulation
Wall / Window Detail boards with vapour
1:20 barrier, bonded to
1 18 mm (7/10 inch) back of prefabricated
pre-finished MDF cladding panel. All
window board fixed to joints foil taped
softwood battens 7 Cavity closer and
9 behind sound barrier
2 12.5 mm (1/2 inch) 8 3 mm (1/10 inch)
plasterboard lining full-height galvanized
forming internal steel angle
window head / jambs 9 180 mm (7 1/10
to fixed proprietary inch) prefabricated
framing behind structural concrete
3 Coloured precast twin-wall system
1 2 concrete spandrel as between rooms with
part of prefabricated nominal 3 mm (1/10
cladding panel with inch) spray-plaster
8 formed gutter to top finish on both sides
7 side and compression 10 Coloured precast
seals between concrete vertical fin as
6 prefabricated frames part of prefabricated
4 PPC black cladding panel
aluminium bar with
mastic seal on both
5 sides
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5 Prefabricated
Kawneer AA100 fully
sealed system with
integral opening vent,
full-height low-
emissivity double SSG
3 glazing unit comprising
9.5 mm (2/5 inch)
10 laminated inner and 3
mm (1/5 inch)
heat-soaked outer with
black warm edge
spacers
6 60 mm (2 2/5 inch)

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