Bishopsgate House's landscaped courtyard, brick and pale grey cladding around three storeys of glazed homes

Bishopsgate House. SFS, insulation and rainscreen package. Hounslow West, London TW4.

SFS, sheathing, Kingspan Kooltherm insulation and silver-grey rainscreen, with the interfaces at the windows and doors. Shown here in our own site photographs.

The raised courtyard, brick below and silver-grey panels above.

The SFS, insulation and rainscreen package.

Package: SFS, sheathing, Kooltherm insulation, rainscreen, interfaces
Rainscreen: RAL 9006 silver-grey metal panels
Housing provider: Sage Housing
Facade on site: October 2019
Scale: 67 homes, four and five storeys
Location: Staines Road, Hounslow TW4

Bishopsgate House is 67 one- and two-bedroom homes at 527 to 529 Staines Road, opposite Hounslow Heath, built for Sage Housing on former industrial land. The team behind Dmitro Development installed the SFS, sheathing, Kingspan Kooltherm insulation, rainscreen brackets, carrier rails and RAL 9006 panels, and the interfaces around the windows and doors.

Part of: cladding and facade packages

Photographed on site on 22 October 2019, with the facade part-way through.

Sheathing and Kooltherm insulation.

Light-gauge steel framing to the structure, faced in purple sheathing board, then Kingspan Kooltherm rigid insulation with foil-faced, sealed junctions.

Purple sheathing board on a column beside foil-faced Kingspan Kooltherm insulation around a glazed door, silver-grey panels fixed behind the scaffold — 01Sheathing, Kooltherm and the first panels at a corner.
An upper-floor corner from the scaffold: purple sheathing board on the framing, foil-faced Kingspan Kooltherm around a door opening, and the first silver-grey panels fixed beyond.

RAL 9006 rainscreen panels.

Silver-grey metal rainscreen panels in RAL 9006 on the upper storeys, lighter than the brick below them, and carried round the set-back top floor.

Set-back top floor clad in silver-grey panels, seen across a wet roof deck with edge protection and stacked insulation boards — 02The set-back top floor, seen from the roof.
From the wet roof deck behind edge protection: the set-back top floor already in silver-grey panels, insulation boards stacked on the roof and scaffold still up at the far end.

Silver-grey rainscreen panels fixed between tall windows, seen through scaffold tubes from the scaffold boards — 03Panels fixed between the windows.
Silver-grey rainscreen panels fixed between the window openings, seen from the scaffold boards, with Kooltherm still showing at the far end of the run.

Window and door interfaces.

The openings detailed through the build-up, where the panels meet the brickwork and the glazing.

Dark window frame in an opening lined with purple sheathing board, metal brackets at its head and foil-faced insulation on the column beside it — 04Window opening detailed within the build-up.
A window frame set into its opening, purple sheathing board either side and brackets fixed at its head, with foil-faced Kooltherm wrapping the next column.

Brackets, carrier rails and panels.

Rainscreen support brackets and carrier rails fixed over the insulation, and the panels hung on them.

Set-back top floor clad in silver-grey panels seen across a roof deck into low sun, scaffold against brickwork on the right — 05The top floor across the roof, panels on.
Looking across the roof deck into low sun: the set-back top floor clad in silver-grey panels, insulation stacked on the roof and scaffold standing against the brick below.

Scaffold walkway beside an elevation with silver-grey panels fixed further along and Kingspan Kooltherm insulation with metal rails around a glazed door in front — 06Panels on one bay, Kooltherm and rails on the next.
Along the scaffold walkway: silver-grey panels fixed across the bays behind, and in front, Kingspan Kooltherm with brackets and rails around a glazed door, above the brickwork.

Metal brackets and rails over foil-faced insulation beside a window, silver-grey panels leaning against the scaffold — 07Brackets and rails over Kooltherm, panels stacked ready.
Brackets and rails fixed over foil-faced Kooltherm beside a window, and the silver-grey panels stacked on the scaffold boards ready to hang.

Four- and five-storey brick building with a set-back top floor in silver-grey panels, seen across a wide lawn beside a car park

Delivered in 2020.

A crescent of part four and part five storeys, the upper floors set back, around a raised landscaped courtyard, with a shared roof terrace overlooking Hounslow Heath.

Bishopsgate House from across the lawn, the top floor in silver-grey panels.