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26 www.thefis.org Events Members Meeting Manchester 9 November 2022, 13:30 – 17:30 FIS Working Group Ceiling and Absorbers Working Group, Coventry 16 November FIS Working Group Heritage and Fibrous Plastering Working Group, London 22 November Training Awards Lunch Plaisterers’ Hall, London 22 November 2022, 12:00 – 15:30 FIS Working Group SFSWorking Group, Birmingham, 30 November Members Meeting Glasgow 1 December 2022, 15:00 – 17:00 FIS Conference Business Design Centre, London 27 – 28 February 2023 Workspace Design Show Business Design Centre, London 27 - 28 February 2023 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY FIS Scottish Awards The James McCune Smith learning and teaching hub at the Glasgow University FIS SCOTTISH AWARDS THEWINNERS Comments from judges Phil Taylor and James Parlour: “As we now come out of the pandemic and the turmoil of the last couple of years, we would like to acknowledge the pleasure and enthusiasm you have demonstrated in showcasing your work to us, with many of the projects judged either being completed, or worked on during this difficult period”. After a two-year hiatus, the FIS Scottish Awards were back to showcase the quality of work and range of projects carried out in Scotland. Project of the Year – Over £1m Winner - Linear Projects The Learning and Teaching Hub is a world-leading facility with a variety of interactive lecture theatres, small group rooms, break-out and study areas. This was the first new build of a £1 billion investment programme that Glasgow University have undertaken. Linear Projects installed a vast array of visually stunning multi-coloured ceilings, rafts, baffles and wall panels including Hunter Douglas timber slatted ceilings, Knauf AMF baffles and rafts - trapezoidal, circular, triangular, square and rectangular, bespoke Heradesign rafts and wall panels, Ecophon solo baffles, SAS black open Mesh 200/330 ceilings and bulkheads as well as plasterboard ceilings, margins and bulkheads and Zerodec GRG Column Encasements fromGillespie UK. The main challenges lay with setting out of shaped rafts and baffles to a variety of designs with differing layouts and levels throughout the building. Each individual fixing point to the entirety of the panels had to be specifically measured, set out and transferred to the soffit. Standard modular Heradesign products were used to create bespoke largescale rafts. Great care had to be taken whilst cutting and joining quite a fragile product. SAS Mesh 22/330 was a hybrid system to meet the specific needs of the project, integrating this system and interfacing with curved bronzed bulkheads showcased the skills of the workforce. The judges said: “Linear Projects delivered this very large scope of works for the award-winning Glasgow University expansion that included SFS, drylining, MF ceilings and bulkheads, metal ceilings, multiple types of Ecophon baffles and rafts, GRG column encasements, doorsets, washrooms and more”.