Lucideon Supports Design Decisions for Winterton House Winterton House was built in the 1960s as a steel frame building clad in glass reinforced plastic panels. The steelwork design led to awards for its efficiency but unfortunately towards the end of the century the cladding began to fail; as a result plans were made to refurbish to modern standards. The Challenge The decision to regenerate the building posed a problem for structural engineer Bryn Bird of Whitby Bird as the original steel frame could not support the extra load of concrete to be cast for the floors to improve the acoustic isolation between apartments. The concept was to build a freestanding ‘sleeve’ of brickwork about the frame for its complete 26 storey height. A steel frame would then be erected above the roof and sit up

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