Alcoa’s Kawneer Architectural Aluminum Products Enhance Learning in an Environmentally Friendly Way

The Hot Springs Intermediate School, located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, may appear to be an everyday, two-story school. But in taking a closer look at the aluminum, glass and brick building it is apparent that there is much more to the building than meets the eye. Sustainability was a key factor in creating the new school. It was important that the Intermediate School incorporate solutions that help provide a healthy, productive learning environment,... 

Kawneer’s heavy traffic door system

The doors have a heavy-duty aluminium construction and a variety of locking and threshold options. At Barnsley, where two bus stations and a railway station were consolidated, the subcontractor was SG Aluminium. Barnsley’s new transport interchange, designed by architect Jefferson Sheard as part of the Remaking Barnsley regeneration project, features Kawneer’s 350 heavy traffic door system on the east elevation of the 150m-long main concourse,...