Contract Riverside Museum, Scotland
Award Gold
Category Drywall Construction
Website www.clarkandfenn.skanska.co.uk/
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The new Transport Museum in Glasgow, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has already become one of the city's waterfront must see buildings with its iconic external profile which is said to replicate the path of the River Clyde. The distinctive external silhouette has been mirrored internally by the undulating nature of the ceiling profile. It was determined that GRG would be the best medium to replicate the contours of the external design of the building.

Computer generated software established how best the various profiles could be produced. Due to the constantly variable profile of the ceiling, the manufacturing would be, in the majority of situations, of one mould one cast. To ensure the logistical process of production could be properly managed a number of mould schedules were created namely constant straight, constant curved, variable straight and variable curved. These four schedules also allowed for the 'Ridge' and 'Valley' profiles, flatbed castings including a shadowgap feature that were to be part of the final design. Production of the individual casts was then scheduled to suit the site installation programme which consisted of five separate construction zones.

Prior to installation, site engineers set out numerous datum marks on the floor to determine the lines and levels of the contours of the ceilings 'Valleys' and 'Ridges'. Operatives then installed the lightweight support system, itself located back to structural steel frame, prior to teams fixing and completing the various GRG casts - their final position determined by the production schedule referred to above.