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By exploring the many exciting images within our Public Buildings Project Gallery you will be presented with a remarkable and inspirational selection of our aluminium materials, products and surface finishes successfully combining and performing within a variety of contemporary spaces.
Full credit for these inspirational applications must however be attributed to the architects and designers responsible for the often innovative and creative ways in which GA’s aluminium products have been incorporated within the overall conceptual plan.
You may concur that many of the featured projects represent excellent examples of imaginative design and will serve to help you access and utilise the creative process.
If you have been searching for suppliers of aluminium products for use in public buildings, look no further!
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Gooding Aluminium are a national and international supplier of a wide range of high quality aluminium products including aluminium angle, aluminium channels and aluminium stair nosings. Gooding Aluminium’s products are available in a variety of finishes.
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Here at Gooding Aluminium we know our acute angles from our perforated sheet, we thought it would be really helpful to our customers, to give a concise definition of all things aluminium. So please read our GA Glossary of Terms and let us know what you think! Have we missed anything? If so, do tell us by leaving your comments below!
Read: The Gooding Guide to Aluminium
Most of us will be familiar with the 19th century architect and engineer Issambard Kingdom Brunel and at least some of his awe inspiring designs for bridges, railways, tunnels and ships. However, there is another less well known, but no less accomplished engineer and architect from the same period and his name is Henry Robinson Palmer. Apart from founding the Institute of Civil Engineers, Henry Palmer also patented the first Monorail design in 1821 and is credited with inventing corrugated iron and the galvanising process.
Gatecrasher Nightclub - Corrugated Aluminium
The principle advantage of corrugating materials is that although it doesn’t make them any stronger as such, it does increase their rigidity by virtue of spreading any applied load along the length of the corrugations.
Combining Henry Palmer’s brilliant corrugating idea and applying this to a modern day corrosion resistant and lightweight material such as aluminium sheet produces an outstanding multi functional product.
As with all claims for improved product performance, some clear cut evidence is required to demonstrate just how much of a difference the corrugating process makes to the rigidity of an aluminium sheet.
Ceram Research therefore recently carried out deflection testing on our range of wavy Anolight aluminium sheets and compared the results with a control sample of flat aluminium sheet. The test results exceeded my expectations and will be shortly uploaded onto our website. In the meantime here are the essentials.
Gatecrasher Nightclub
A synopsis of the test conditions reads as follows. Load was applied by means of dead weights placed centrally on the aluminium sheets. Deflections were measured at each load increment until either the sample collapsed or the maximum load was achieved.
Dorman Museum, Middlesborough
The test results showed that, compared with the control sample of flat aluminium sheet, the wavy Anolight material had an impressively increased resistance to deflection of between 8 & 15 times (depending on the sheet patterns tested).
Corrugating sheet material is a great example of innovation. Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best. We have a lot to thank Henry Robinson Palmer for!
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There have been many technological advances in the mining and production of aluminium over the past 50 years. Significantly reduced power input, lowering of PFC emissions, increased re-cycling, and the development of new industry specific aluminium alloys to name a few.
The basics of making aluminium however remain the same. Bauxite, the main ore of aluminium, is open cast mined, converted into aluminium oxide (alumina) and passes through an electrolytic reduction process that converts into metallic form.
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