Hygienic Coating For Highgate School Balustrade

First established in 1565, the prestigious Highgate School is a leading independent educational facility situated in one of the most attractive and sought after areas of North London.

The school has an extensive estate, comprising buildings of various age and styles, including Victorian buildings with listed building status and an outdoor centre located in Snowdonia.

The latest addition to the campus is the Charter Building which was designed by Orms architects as the new main entrance to the school.

With 1,460 pupils and approximately 400 teaching and support staff at the school, the designer/architect needed a robust, high performance coating system to be used on the vertical balustrade surfaces of a highly trafficked staircase – the staircase balustrade being the centre-point of the lobby design.

The Solution

With many years experience of applying the Sikagard® products and systems, we delivered a hygienic coating solution that combined fast application, high performance and long term reliability.

The programme for completion was very tight, and involved working in close proximity to other trades but the low odour nature of the Sikagard® coatings, coupled with careful planning by Vinci (the main contractor) and us, enabled multiple trades to work in close proximity within the area under construction, whilst the works were going on.

The Benefits

With the staircase balustrade fully coated with the bright products, a stunning centre-point was created at the very heart of the building.

A complete solution from us and Sika has given the architects peace of mind that their aesthetic vision has been realised whilst making the new facilities accessible to those pupils, staff and visitors with reduced mobility.