QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL.
Mile End, London
A landmark canalside academic building for Queen Mary University of London, combining precision-engineered Schüco curtain walling, high-performance rainscreen cladding and meticulously installed windows and doors into a single coherent envelope.
Delta Facades is delivering the full external envelope to Queen Mary University of London's new Business School at Mile End — a canalside teaching and research building intended to sit at the heart of student life for decades. The scope covers Schüco stick curtain walling to the main teaching and lecture volumes, ventilated rainscreen cladding to the solid elements, and thermally-broken windows and doors throughout, all installed as a single coordinated package. Working within a live campus, the programme is sequenced around term dates, canal-side crane restrictions and continuous coordination with the M&E and internal fit-out trades.
The envelope is being installed floor-by-floor from a combination of mast climbers and mobile access to keep the canalside towpath clear. Schüco curtain walling is set out from a digital site survey and pre-checked against the structural frame before mullion delivery. Rainscreen brackets are installed as the frame progresses so the insulation and breather membrane can be closed early, giving the internal trades a weather-tight box as soon as possible.
- →Live university campus with continuous student and staff footfall to adjacent buildings
- →Restricted canalside logistics with limited crane and delivery windows
- →Multiple facade systems meeting at complex junctions requiring fully coordinated setting-out
- →Meeting current Part L thermal targets and Part B fire-safety requirements across every interface
- — Schüco stick curtain walling with high-performance double glazing
- — Ventilated aluminium rainscreen cladding on thermally-broken brackets
- — Thermally-broken aluminium windows and entrance doors
- — Mineral wool insulation and breather membrane behind rainscreen
