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The world’s largest Audi Centre, a £15 million, five-acre landscaped development in Braehead, Glasgow, incorporates AshFab powder-coated bullnose and standard flashings supplied by Ash & Lacy Building Systems.

The three-storey, 6,000 m2 development, the new home of Glasgow Audi (formerly Lomond Audi), was designed by SDA Jackson Calvert, part of the International SDA Group, one of Europe’s foremost automotive architects. The centre was constructed by national contractors, Rok, previously local builder, John Dickie Construction, with the roofing sub-contracted to Glasgow based McKay Roofing.

Mike Hudson, architect with SDA Jackson Calvert, says : “ Large bullnose transition trims were selected to enhance the aesthetics of the building; the Audi Centre has a technologically advance design and forms a landmark development at Junction 26 on the M8 motorway, gateway to the Braehead shopping centre.”

Some 200 metres of AshFab bullnoses, each 1250mm high by 3m long, were fixed to the eaves where the roof and wall cladding systems meet, with some faceted into curved runs. The standard flashings, mostly aluminium, were fitted around the doors and windows.

The new, state-of-the-art Audi centre is much more than a car showroom. Five times bigger than the previous premises, it includes motor servicing facilities, a parts department that delivers across Scotland and Northern England and of course massive new car and used car forecourts. It also houses an employee canteen, a 160-seater conference and event centre, a training academy, an art gallery, kindergarten, internet bar, Le Mans Bistro Café, an outdoor, off-road course, as well as a regularly changing innovative display of Audi cars in their own museum.