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Marley Eternit’s Cladding Awarded Top Marks Cedral Weatherboard Clads Windmill
The £26 million Marley Eternit has supplied
Elmgreen School in Cedral Weatherboard as part of the
Tulse Hill, London, re-building of a 194-year-old windmill
has awarded top in Sheerness, Kent, that was
marks to cladding destroyed by fire in January 2008.
from Marley Eternit’s Cedral Weatherboard, which has a
Natura range. The class 0 fire performance, was chosen
fibre cement panels in white because it replicated the
helped meet London original timber material, and provided
Borough of Lambeth’s the building with enhanced fire
requirement for the performance. As Cedral
school to have a Weatherboard is a fibre-cement
natural and pleasing material, unlike its timber counterpart
appearance as well as it does not warp or shrink over time,
contributing to it and this made it an ideal cladding
gaining a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating. After considering using sandstone material for this complex shape. The
tiles, Scott Brownrigg, the architect, specified cladding from the Natura range weatherboard is designed to offer the
in Amber and Azurite. This created the visual appearance that the designer same natural visual appeal as timber
was looking for as well as being a more cost-effective and practical solution. by featuring a subtly textured surface.
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The Historic Castle Cornet in Guernsey Repaired Wizz Through Winter
Castle Cornet figures Redland’s Rapid Range
prominently in the history of dry fix systems
of Guernsey. In 2008 reduce the risks of
investigative work took winter weather slowing
place in the Castle down sites, as well as
magazine roofs and it speeding up work to
was identified where cope with shorter hours
internal and external of daylight. Being able
repair work was needed to eliminate the wet
to arrest the deterioration trade work of traditional
experienced mortar prevents the
predominantly from water ongoing threat of rain
ingress. Quadriga was slowing down a site.
awarded the contract by By instead using a
The States of Guernsey mechanical dry-fix
Culture and Leisure system for pitched
Department and restoration work got underway. Whole roof coverings were roofing, the work can be
removed and replaced incorporating a heavy sand/lime screed, granite walls carried out with the confidence that the structure’s integrity is not at risk
were cleaned and re-pointed, eroded stonework and brickwork were repaired. under rain, which so often affects wet mortar.
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