The Anchorage Gateway, Salford Quays

The Anchorage Gateway in Salford Quays is a new multi-storey building in the centre of Salford. The main wing is 29 storeys high whilst the lower tower tops out at 19 storeys. The ground floor contains almost 400m² of commercial space and the upper floors contain 290 residential units and 800m² of amenity space.

The building is reputed to be one of the highest brick clad buildings in Europe, Kinlan Brickwork being specialist sub-contractor.

Domis Construction is the main contractor on this scheme. URSA UK Ltd was chosen as the preferred insulation manufacturer. We supplied over 11,500m² of 100mm URSAPAN BLACK - a unique glass mineral wool rainscreen cladding insulation slab;

·      Euroclass A1 fire rating (non-combustible).

·      Thermal conductivity of 0.035 W/mK.

·      BBA Certified.

Kate Fox, Area Sales Manager for the Midlands stated, ‘Following the success of this initial partnership URSA are now the preferred supplier of rainscreen insulation and our products have been used on Fifty5ive Queen Street in Salford with others in the pipeline including Derwent Street’.