100% quality
Quality comes as standard with Corus steel. Our world class manufacturing facilities and philosophy ensure that every aspect of the process is tightly controlled to produce the highest possible standard of finished product. Off-site fabrication of structural steelwork means that what gets delivered to site is precisely what is expected. The quality is visible for all to see from the moment it arrives right through until the end of use by the client. Giving everyone 100% peace of mind.
Fact file
Name | The Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, London |
Architect | Hopkin Architects |
Structural Engineers | WSP Cantor Seinuk |
Steelwork Contractor | William Hare Ltd |
Main Contractors | Mace Ltd |
Client | The Wellcome Trust |
The Gibbs building stands next to the Wellcome Trust’s old head-quarters on London’s Euston Road. The 28,000 m2 glass and steel building is arranged in two internal blocks. The north one, facing Euston Road, rises to ten storeys; the rear, to be in scale with the surrounding streets, to five. Both are covered by a sweeping glass canopy and linked by a dramatic, full height internal ‘street’.
At this years' structural steel design awards (where it was an award winner) the judges commented that "The building has achieved a simple, clear design that is logical and sensitive in its master-planning, sophisticated in its detailing and uncompromising in its execution. The result is a classic of its type.
