Parke-Davis Plant
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A large chemical plant comprising of sophisticated manufacturing and warehouse space on the edge of a national park in Pontypool
The Parke-Davis building has a deceptive air of simplicity, but within the plain brick envelopes of the building there is a wide range of highly specialised facilities with differing functional and environmental requirements.
The program comprises of several individual buildings that are positioned to suit their functional relationships; those concerned with the manufacturing processes being located in the centre of the site.
These manufacturing units are steel framed and windowless. In contrast the research and administrative buildings are of reinforced concrete and fully glazed. To achieve overall unity both types of building are clad in grey brickwork with the structural steel tresses expressed externally by pressed metal fascia.
Data
- Completed: Aug 1971
- Floor area: 37,100m2
- Sectors: Education, Industrial
- Total cost: £2.5M
- Tender date: Jun 1969
- Procurement: RIBA Clause 31a deleted
- Address: Pontypool, Torfaen , NP4 OYH, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: PTP Architects
- Client: Parke-Davis
- Structural engineer: Veryard & Partners
- Civil engineer: Veryard & Partners
- Mechanical engineer: Andrews Weatherfield Limited
- Electrical engineer : Andrews Weatherfield Limited
- Quantity surveyor: I.E. Symmonds & Partners