Acheson & Glover - Leisure Development - Blackburn, Bowlplex Family Entertainments Centre

Date: 10 Feb 2006

Irish construction products specialists, Acheson & Glover [A&G], has supplied their top of the range, TerraPave Natural Aggregate paving flags to the new Vue Cinemas & Bowlplex Family Entertainments Centre, built for Peel Investment North Ltd in Blackburn, Lancashire.

220 sq m of TerraPave, Natural Aggregate Flags in Milano colour were installed in the shared, ground floor, foyer area of this prestigious leisure complex, which provides cinema, ten-pin bowling and retail facilities for the local area.

Designers of the £8m building, Ratcliffe Groves Partnership of Bury, Lancashire, anticipated high levels of concentrated foot over the paved area. The paving forms an indoor, reception foyer adjacent to the main bowling arena. It also provides access to the upper level cinema complex.

With over half a million visitors a year expected, durability, low maintenance and exceptional aesthetic qualities were essential requirements and the 400x400mm, 50mm thick TerraPave Flags met all these criteria.

Commenting on the choice of TerraPave Flags, Nick Ratcliffe, Associate Director for Ratcliffe Groves said" This particular paving surprised me. We were struggling to find a floor finish that suited the criteria of good value, hard-wearing characteristics and luxury appearance. TerraPave flags gave us the semi-terrazzo finish we wanted. They really fitted the bill"

Ratcliffe Groves specified a traditional installation method of wet-mortar bedding the flags onto the concrete substrate, with all joints mortar pointed. The paving was installed by Irwins Construction of Leeds.

TerraPave Flags are part of a wide range of high quality landscape products from the Acheson & Glover Group. They are made incorporating a 20mm thick surface layer of high quality granite aggregates. This gives them an attractive, natural stone surface finish but without the usual high cost associated with stone flags. No pigments are used in the manufacture so the pavings also claim outstanding colour retention qualities.

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