Morven and Grampian Courts, and the sheltered housing scheme Brimmond Court, which were built in 1969/70 in the Balnagask area of the city, had been identified for a thermal upgrade under the city council’s housing capital programme which provides the catalyst to deliver many of the objectives in the housing business plan.
Over-cladding the three towers comprising 156 rented and privately-owned flats with external solid wall insulation and a mixture of a total almost 8,000m2 rainscreen panels was carried out by Highrise Solutions for main contractor Lovell.
Some 6,865m2 of panels were used on the majority of the elevations of the 13-storey blocks. Nature panels feature a surface of aggregated natural stones from Europe and are available in 17 different natural stone colours and up to five grades in many of these colours.