Lead service

Drylining packages: partitions, ceilings and linings

Drylining is where Express started. Today our teams deliver complete interior packages (partitions, wall linings, suspended and feature ceilings, glazed partitions and plastering) for schools, hospitals, universities, leisure and commercial buildings. From our base in Rainham, our drylining teams work across London, Essex, Kent and the South East, as a specialist subcontractor to main contractors.

Project capacity
Up to £50m
Core team with Express
15+ years
Approved fire stopping installer
FIRAS
Atrium at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College: white walls and bulkheads, glazed balconies and a perforated ceiling with pendant lights
Greater Brighton Metropolitan College: ceilings, partitions, acoustic panels and fire stopping in our package.

What we install

Built to the system manufacturer's details by our own supervised teams.

Built around the specification

Partitions and ceilings carry fire, acoustic and thermal performance that the building depends on. We build to the system manufacturer's details and coordinate service penetrations and fire stopping with the other trades, so the performance on paper is the performance on site.

School theatre with dark acoustic wall panels, lighting bars under the ceiling and orange tiered seating
The theatre at Cobham Free School, Phase 2, where our package included ceilings, partitions, acoustic panels and fire stopping.

Inside and out, one contractor

Because we also deliver the SFS and façade, we can take the wall from the outside face to the internal finish. One contractor for the envelope and the interior means fewer interfaces for you to manage.

Façades SFS (steel framing system)
The wall we can take onOutside face to internal finish
  1. CladdingThe outside face
  2. Sheathing board and insulation
  3. SFSMade in our Rainham factory
  4. Wall liningPlasterboard on the inside face
  5. PlasteringThe internal finish
Visualisation of UEA CDP Phase 1: pale panelled buildings with full-height glazing set in landscaped grounds at the University of East Anglia
Visualisation.

Flagship projectOn site now

UEA CDP Phase 1

University of East Anglia, Norwich

Our scope: GRC and Equitone panels on secret-fix frame systems, SFS works, internal wall lining, an acoustic wall screen, louvre screens and heavy-duty steel louvre doors.

Main contractor
Mace
Location
Norwich
  • GRC panels
  • Equitone panels
  • SFS
  • Wall lining
  • Acoustic screen
  • Louvre screens
  • Steel louvre doors
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Drylining projects

Key facts and our scope for each package.

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Oak timber rafts and pendant lights over a brick wall inside Twickenham Stadium

Leisure · 2019

Complete

Twickenham Stadium

Main contractor
Willmott Dixon Interiors
Location
Twickenham
  • SFS
  • CP board
  • Timber acoustic ceilings
  • Oak rafts
  • +3 more: GRG ceilings, ceilings, partitions
Timber-clad and rendered teaching block at Hoe Valley School, Woking

Education · 2018

Complete

Hoe Valley School

Location
Woking
  • SFS
  • External board
  • Render
  • Acoustic panels
  • +2 more: Ceilings, partitions
Timber baffle ceiling over an open study space at the University of Kent

Education · 2015

Complete

University of Kent

Main contractor
Willmott Dixon
Location
Canterbury
  • Timber acoustic ceilings
  • Specialist ceilings
  • Acoustic panels
  • Partitions
Office building with green vertical fins at Gatwick Diamond

Commercial

Complete

Gatwick Diamond offices

Location
Gatwick
  • SAS ceilings
  • Partitions
  • Acoustic panels
The leisure centre's grey metal-clad halls and glazed entrance across the new car park.

Leisure · 2016

Complete

Fairfield Leisure Centre

Location
Dartford
  • SFS
  • CP board
  • Ceilings
  • Partitions
  • +2 more: Acoustic panels, fire stopping

Pricing an interiors package?

Send the drawings and specification. We will price partitions, linings and ceilings together, or as separate packages.

Drylining questions

Anything else? Call 01708 554777.

Do you supply and fix, or labour only?

We supply and install complete drylining packages, including materials, with our own supervised teams.

Can you install feature and acoustic ceilings?

Yes. Our projects include timber acoustic ceilings, bespoke oak rafts and GRG ceilings at Twickenham Stadium, and specialist ceilings and baffles at the University of Kent.

Do you install fire-rated partitions and fire stopping?

Yes. We build fire-rated partitions to the manufacturer's details and are a FIRAS-approved installer of fire stopping.

Are your drylining operatives qualified?

Our workforce is NVQ-qualified and holds CSCS, IPAF and PASMA cards. Our supervisors are SMSTS-trained.

Computer-generated illustrations and renders, not photographs of our projects.