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Construction Screens
Rhino Building Screens offer temporary weather protection and dust containment for concrete or steel frame buildings during construction.
Versatile
Building screens provide a secure, professional barrier that withstands wind, rain, and debris. They’re available in plain white for a clean look, or can be digitally printed with your logo or messaging for added brand visibility.
Customisable
By using Rhino Shrink Wrap® building screens, internal fit-out work can begin immediately — even before the permanent cladding is in place.
Ease of Removal
When your project is complete, Rhino Shrink Wrap® building screens are quick and easy to remove and are 100% recyclable, providing a practical and sustainable temporary enclosure solution.
Rhino Construction Screens: Key Advantages
Tough & Tight
Heat shrunk shrink wrap is ‘drum tight’ – it does not flap or ‘self destruct’ in high winds.
Smart Appearance
Smart & professional appearance – Clean, white, drum tight finish.
Easy Branding
Shrink wrap is easy to brand with your company logo using large self advesive vinyl labels.
Flame Retardant
Flame retardant options – Covers available as ‘standard’ or ‘flame retardant’.
Zipped Access
Provides access through the cover for personnel or lifting points.
Versatile
Cut and welded ‘in situ’ – No restriction on size and shape of the scaffolding structure.
UV Resistant
UV inhibitors protect surfaces from damage and ensures Rhino Shrink Wrap stays strong and intact during long-term outdoor use.
Continuous run / set back
Screens are set back from the edge of the concrete slab and run continuously along each floor, creating a space for permanent cladding installers to work while the Rhino Building Screens remain in place. This design enables faster installation with less drilling and fixing of battens required.
Bay by bay / slab edge
Screens are installed close to the edge of the concrete slab and columns, maximizing the internal area for fit-out works. However, additional battening and fixings are required for columns, and working at the slab edge may necessitate temporary removal of edge protection.
Shrink wrap vs traditional partitions
Building Wrap Case Studies
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Covid 19 Partition Barrier – Manchester
CATEGORY Shrink Wrap Partitions TAGS Covid 19 Barrier, Covid 19 Partition, Shrink Wrap Screen ABOUT THIS PROJECT Covid 19 Partition For Canteen ‘Corridor’ Current government advice (May 2020), as the UK deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, is for everyone to work from home wherever possible and limit contact with other people. However, for jobs where working from home is not possible, employers have a ‘duty of care’ for staff and customers visiting the workplace. This means employers must do all they reasonably can to support health, safety and wellbeing. As employers around the UK carry out ‘Covid 19 risk assessments’, they are looking to implementing measures to mitigate identified risks. One of the ways to make workplaces safer is by using screens to ensure social or physical distancing. At Rhino Shrink Wrap we have completed a number of Covid 19 partitions in factories, distribution centres and construction sites around the UK using our heavy duty, flame retardant shrink wrap film. For our latest project, a team of 3 installers from Rhino, worked over 3 days for Bowmer & Kirkland to complete the installation of a 65m long x 2.9m high shrink wrap screen. The screen was requested to provide a physical barrier between a canteen / rest area in an office development and the walking routes that passed through it. The usual process for installing a shrink wrap screen is to fix a timber batten or aluminium track to the floor, ceiling and any uprights. However, on this project, the customer requested that no surfaces could be drilled so a new batten fixing method using heavy duty ties was devised. The 300 micron thickness, heavy duty shrink wrap sheeting was then fixed between the floor and ceiling track and heat shrink ‘drum tight’ using our hot air tool. The end result was a smart looking, smooth and tight shrink wrap screen. At some point in the future, (hopefully soon), when the Covid 19 screens are no longer required, it will be easy to to cut down the shrink wrap in sections using a Stanley knife and fold it for recycling before removing the batten and track. (All Rhino Shrink Wrap sheeting products are 100% recyclable.) If graphics or signage is required, it is easy to apply self adhesive vinyl signage and zipped access hatches can ensure emergency exit routes remain accessible. Compared to other Covid 19 barriers, such as solid hoarding, a shrink wrap screen offers more flexibility with regard to installation. Our standard product is available in sheets up to 7m wide x 15m long, and where joins are required, the sheets are heat welded so there is no limit to the size and shape of area that can be covered. As standard, our sheet is supplied in a white colour, but we can supply & install transparent screening also. If you prefer, we can provide ‘materials only’ and guidance to help you install the screens using your in-house teams. For more information about our internal building screens, contact our friendly team on 01477 532222 or e-mail info@rhinoshrinkwrap.com. We look forward to hearing from you. GET IN TOUCH We are happy to discuss your project requirements and answer any other questions you may have. If you send us your contact details by filling in this form, member of the team willl be in touch to find out more about your enquiry. We look forward to speaking to you! [contact-form-7 id="922" title="Get in touch"] [elementor-template id="30886"]
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TEMPORARY WEATHER PROTECTION
The Brief Herculaneum Quay is a development of 101 luxury apartments, situated on the bank of the River Mersey. This 15 storey residential tower by Primesites Developments is a significant size construction project for Liverpool. Because the construction site is located right on the banks of the Mersey, it is very exposed to everything the weather can throw at it. As the concrete is poured and floors are added, it will take some time before the permanent rain screen / glazing is installed. The main contractor, COREM, was looking for a temporary solution which would quickly make the building water-tight and enable them to proceed with the internal works in a dry & controlled environment. Your browser does not support our video. Temporary High Rise Weather Protection The solution was to use a shrink wrap screen, applied directly to the steel and concrete frame which would wrap the building and provide protection through the winter months. With a ceiling height of around 3m and with the supporting pillars set back from the edge of the concrete slab, Rhino Shrink Wrap were able to make a continuous 150m / 500′ run of shrink wrap around the perimeter of the building on a floor by floor basis. Rhino Shrink Wrap building screens are made from the same materials as our ‘signature’ scaffold wrap. It is an LDPE film that is easily joined by heat welding and which shrinks very powerfully when it is heated – (this is the secret of it’s ‘drum tight’ finish.) As standard, our screens are white in colour and allow almost all daylight through to the interior of the building. Our building wrap has flame retardant additives so that is meets the EN13501 fire retardant specifications and it has Ultra Violet inhibitors so it won’t become brittle when used outside. It is able to be used at a wide range of temperatures – we have used it in projects from Australia to Russia without any problems. Building Screen Installation Process The installation of our shrink wrap building screens is quite straightforward, whether fixing to concrete or steel framed building, the process is the same. The first step is to fix a run of wooden batten to the concrete or steel frame in the position where the shrink wrap screens are required. For a continuous run around the building, (where uprights are set back from the edge of the slab), this batten will be required along the ceiling and floor. Where the building uprights are directly adjacent to the edge of the slab, the shrink wrap will be installed on a ‘bay by bay’ basis and so batten will be required on the uprights also. Once this ‘picture frame’ of wooden batten has been installed, the shrink wrap sheeting is cut to size and hung in position. A second run of wooden batten is used to firmly secure the shrink wrap into position and is screwed firmly into the first batten. If there are no uprights / pillars at corners then the Rhino Shrink Wrap installation team install and tension an industrial grade strapping at the corners around which the shrink film is wrapped. Where a join is required between two sheets, this is achieved by overlapping two sections and using a hot air tool to created a bonded joint between the two sections. The final stage of the process is to use propane gas powered hot air tool to shrink the screens drum tight. This is achieved by passing hot air briefly over the surface of the shrink wrap sheeting. Shrink Wrap & Resistance to Wind Loading One thing that contractors often ask when they start to look at building screens is what wind speeds will they withstand. Now, exact wind speeds will vary from project to project because it depends on the size of the bays and the types of fixings we are using but let me give you an idea. A Force 10 wind, which is a wind speed of 55-63mph or over 100kph will extern a force of 0.77kn/m2. Now a typical bay of a concrete or steel frame building is often in the region of 3.5m high x 6m long which means that in a force 10, there is 17.5kn of Force on that sheet. Well, that is well within the capabilities of our shrink wrap sheeting which has a tensile strength at yield of around 26Kn. This means that sheeting can experience Force 10 winds and bounce back to it’s original taught state. Summary The Rhino Shrink Wrap team installed temporary weather protection around one floor of this high rise concrete and steel frame building each week. For the construction contractor, the ability to start the internal works before the external cladding and glazing is finished has brought a number of benefits – the projects are easier to manage, schedule, and the risk of delays and penalties is reduced. Thank you for taking the time to read this case study. Please do contact us with your questions or comments. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Temporary ceiling dust barrier
CATEGORY Shrink Wrap Partitions ABOUT THIS PROJECT With a team of 5 employees working over the course of 1 weekend, Rhino have completed the installation of a 600 square metre temporary ceiling dust barrier in Louth, UK. Lincolnshire based Gelder Group, who employ over 300 people in the UK, contacted Rhino to construct a temporary suspended ceiling dust barrier in order to completely contain the dust generated during the construction of a new spa complex at the Kenwick Park Hotel. Because the building which houses the spa and pool area had been mostly completed, there was a potential issue whereby continuing construction work would create dust that would eventually require extensive high level cleaning of wooden pannelling and other finished surfaces. In most cases where large dust and debris containment sheeting is used to create temporary partitions in factories and retail environments, we fix the sheets to a scaffolding structure. For this project, scaffolding was not required for access purposes, and to set up a temporary scaffolding just for the purposes of supporting the dust control sheeting would have been time consuming and costly. Instead, Rhino proposed a support structure based around tensioned strapping. With anchor points pre-fixed into the walls by the main contractor, the shrink wrap installation team from Rhino, used access towers to install 20 tensioned straps which radiated from around the building to a central ring. Finally a ratchet strap was attached to the central ring from above and tensioned to create a cone effect. With the tensioned strapping support structure in place, the Rhino team used a 12 metre wide, 200 micro thick, flame retardant shrink wrap sheet to create the temporary construction ceiling. Overlaps between sheets were heat welded to create a continuously sealed skin. Around the edge of the building, temporary corrugated plastic panels were fixed to the walls and a skirt was installed between the roof sheeting and the wall. In this way, any dust from the construction work below could be completely contained. At some point in the future, (hopefully soon), when the Covid 19 screens are no longer required, it will be easy to to cut down the shrink wrap in sections using a Stanley knife and fold it for recycling before removing the batten and track. (All Rhino Shrink Wrap sheeting products are 100% recyclable.) If graphics or signage is required, it is easy to apply self adhesive vinyl signage and zipped access hatches can ensure emergency exit routes remain accessible. Compared to other Covid 19 barriers, such as solid hoarding, a shrink wrap screen offers more flexibility with regard to installation. Our standard product is available in sheets up to 7m wide x 15m long, and where joins are required, the sheets are heat welded so there is no limit to the size and shape of area that can be covered. As standard, our sheet is supplied in a white colour, but we can supply & install transparent screening also. If you prefer, we can provide ‘materials only’ and guidance to help you install the screens using your in-house teams. For more information about our internal building screens, contact our friendly team on 01477 532222 or e-mail info@rhinoshrinkwrap.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
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