New safety certificate for Sorba UK
Sorba UK is proud to announce that it is now compliant with the Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS). CHAS was created to ensure health and safety standards across the United Kingdom.
With the CHAS Certificate, Sorba UK is now a SSIP registered (Safety Scheme in Procurement) company. The SSIP forum is committed to the reduction of assessment costs by making cross recognition between member schemes possible. With Sorba being SSIP registered, the company can now work with less bureaucracy and therefore be more cost effective.
Sorba has been involved in several Elizabeth Line projects across London and is in the final stage of completing many of the stations fit-out contracts awarded to it by Crossrail and its contractual partners.
These schemes have used many different types of bespoke materials, all designed and supplied by Sorba. The company’s in-house design teams have faced many challenges, especially with the development of the innovations. The engineers however have used their experience throughout the whole process with excellent results.
Sorba then engineered, tested, manufactured and finally installed various components on site. During this process Sorba’s different project teams were always thinking of new ways to help take these prestigious stations schemes through to reality.
Cladding materials used include Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GFRC), bronze, brass, copper, glass, aluminium and steel. Sorba developed several bespoke systems for the new stations; glazing, louvres, security doors and gates, specialist GFRC cladding, and sand cast bronze cladding.
At Farringdon station, Sorba created a modern concrete version of a vaulted tunnel, using over 7000 m² of GFRC panels. At the junctions and above the escalators, the panels are double curved and perforated to enhance the acoustics.
The exterior of the station is clad with Sorba anodised aluminium sandwich cladding. All copings and flashings are cladded with coated aluminium panels and all ventilation openings are clad with stainless steel mesh from GKD.
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Sorba UK
Tel: 01206 766 320
Web: https://www.sorba.com
More station project images here