Month: November 2022

IG Masonry Support is delighted to have produced bespoke masonry support and brickwork solutions to a number of the winners from the Brick Development Association (BDA) Brick Awards 2022.

The Awards, which took place on Thursday 10^th November at the Royal Lancaster, London, celebrate the very best examples of clay in the UK’s built environment.

A total of 15 projects shortlisted at the annual awards were supplied with IGMS products and six of these projects won their category or were highly commended including:

• Radley College Chapel Extension – Supreme Winner, Contractors Choice Category Winner and Craftsmanship Category Winner
• Good Luck Hope – Large Housing Development Category Winner
• Royal College of Art – Battersea Campus – Education Category Winner and Commended in Innovation Category
• Neptune Wharf – Urban Regeneration Category Winner
• 79 Fitzjohns Avenue and E20 (BBC Eastenders Site) by Lee Marley Brickwork – Brickwork Contractor of the Year Category Winner

Scott Denham, Sales Director at IG Masonry Support, said: “We are extremely proud to be associated with a number of the projects which were shortlisted and went on to become category winners and highly commended at this year’s Brick Awards. A particular mention goes to the

Supreme Winner, Radley College Chapel Extension. A very deserving winner featuring some of the most detailed arches ever produced by IG Masonry Support.”

Read more on the products supplied by IG Masonry Support to the Supreme Winner, Radley College Chapel Extension 

IG Masonry Support Specification Executive, Jemma Ison, will be presenting a host of free CPD webinars developed to educate architects, specifiers and engineers in achieving intricate brick features using masonry support and brick soffit systems and specifying sustainability.

The series will run every Monday from 7th November until 19th December at 12pm with each week focusing on alternative CPD topics.

Topic 1: Achieving Intricate Brick Features (60 mins)

Content includes:

Brick Slip Soffit Systems

• Comparing traditional methods of forming brick soffits with new technologies
• Bespoke brick slip solutions that comply with Document B: Fire Safety
• Brick slip feature arches
• Achieving deep brick soffit details which blend seamlessly with brickwork constructed on-site.

Support of Masonry Cladding on Framed Buildings

• Supporting masonry above horizontal movement that allows expansion and contraction between primary structure and external leaf
• Why material selection is limited to stainless steel for masonry support systems
• Levels of adjustability in the different systems to accommodate site tolerances
• Designing, selecting and specifying Windposts.

Topic 2: Specifying Sustainability: How off-site construction and conscious material selection promotes the circular economy (30 mins)

Content includes:

• An overview of the global challenge and the need to decarbonise our sector
• Awareness of the sustainable benefits of off-site construction solutions
• Awareness of sustainable materials selection to promote a circular economy
• How the Keystone Group is proactively delivering Net Zero applications.

Dates and information

• Monday 7th November, 12pm: Achieving Intricate Brick Features
• Monday 14th November, 12pm: Specifying Sustainability
• Monday 21st November, 12pm: Achieving Intricate Brick Features
• Monday 28th November, 12pm: Specifying Sustainability
• Monday 5th December, 12pm: Achieving Intricate Brick Features
• Monday 12th December, 12pm: Specifying Sustainability
• Monday 19th December, 12pm: Achieving Intricate Brick Features

Registration is required and a direct link to the webinar will be forwarded to the email recorded at registration. Attendees will receive a CPD certificate following the session which contributes towards their annual CPD points.

Register