Saint Gobain at Wolseley Pipe

Pre-Assembly from Saint Gobain can help customers save time and money

PAM from Saint Gobain now offers a new pre-assembly service for the Ensign cast iron above ground drainage system.

This service requires close collaboration between the complete supply chain. PAM’s team are focused on all the elements to make your project a success. Working closely to ensure the management of the process from product selection, bespoke stack design, manufacture, distribution and on-site assistance is the very best. The results will provide a reduction of time on-site with the added assurance of consistent product assembly.

The Pre-Assembled stack solution for the Ensign BS EN 877 cast iron above ground drainage system will enable you to unlock added value as recent projects have seen up to 60% onsite time saving on installation. The service, however, offers so much more than just pre-assembled products:

The PAM commercial team invite engagement with specifiers and contractors at the very early stages of a project to evaluate the possibilities and benefits of using the pre-assembly install system. Through collaboration, the team can identify any unique requirements to maximise the number of Pre-Assembled components and then provide a full take-off estimation service from the PAM technical team.

PAM will provide detailed CAD drawings of the stack arrangements for site approval and all Pre-Assembly stacks are included in the latest version 3.0 BIM library. The stacks are fully compliant with BS EN 12056 Part 2 ensuring all soil stack discharge branches are swept radius in accordance with the guidelines.

Each stack is fully assembled at PAM’s Telford site and air tested to 0.5 bar pressure for 5 minutes exceeding the requirements of BS EN 12056 part 2. These can then be delivered on bespoke stillages with timed delivery’s, ready for quick installation. PAM’s pre-assembled stacks are designed to be manageable by one operative, so averaging around 20kg, well under the health and safety guidelines.

One of the main issues with pre-assembly and off-site manufacturing is finding variations on site that can render the supplied pre-assembly useless if it cannot be adjusted. The benefit of cast iron pre-assembled soil stacks is the flexibility it affords to the installer, as each stack can easily be adjusted to suit unforeseen issues. Each stack configuration is designed to be around 1.75m in length and fits through the slab and normally above the access point. This enables flexibility as the straight pipe above this can be cut on-site to take up any site height differences between floors.

Cast Iron Pre-Assembly specification simplicity equals high performance

In this ever more complicated world, it is often the simplest of solutions that can give the best results. All too often we see the focus on cost as a key focus without truly understanding the knock-on impact to other issues such as linked product specification, time on site, installation risks, ultimately end-user comfort and the environmental impact of not picking a material that is made from 99% recycled content and 100% recyclable.

Therefore, PAM’s Ensign Pre-assembly system enables us all to be effective throughout a projects entire life enabling us to deliver a safe and sustainable solution to make the world a better home.

For more information, please contact our National Projects Team;

Phone 01268 246993

Email?[email protected]