60 CLADDING & CURTAIN WALLING


Sotech’s room with a view A 1980s office block in Uxbridge has been given a modern day makeover thanks to the use of Sotech’s Optima FC rainscreen cladding system. The striking façade design of Park View, boasts a combination of cladding and glazing and has helped to breathe new life into the original concrete framed building. Designed by leading architects Hamiltons, the cladding design was created using Sotech’s highly engineered Optima FC system featuring panels specified in a modern anodised silver finish. Park View’s cladding package was installed by MTW Facades and close collaboration between the two parties ensured the work was completed successfully and efficiently.


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Back to black


Bauhaus at Rossetti Place is the first project in the UK to benefit from Kingspan Kooltherm K15 Rainscreen Cladding with a black foil face rather than traditional silver. Architects, Aedas required an insulation product that would meet their performance criteria for this prestigious development (in terms of thermal and fire performance, Ecohomes requirements, cost and weather resistance) when utilised behind areas of aluminium and timber rainscreen. The timber rainscreen elements were designed with ‘weathered’ open joints which would otherwise render the silver foil-faced insulation behind visible from the ground. Click here to request literature


Curves no problem A stunning new Technology Centre in Nottingham is redefining architecture in Science Park settings with a radical re-imagining of how composite panels technology can be used. The design, which comprised a pair of two-storey wings slightly converging towards a ‘blob-shaped’ entrance structure known as the Hub, required multi-coloured cladding to the first floor of the wings and part of the Hub. A built up system, consisting of a metal sub-frame with insulation and resin-impregnated timber-fibre rainscreen cladding, was rejected in favour of Kingspan KS600 and KS900 MM Mini-Micro architectural wall panels with integral coloured finish in Moorland Green, Linden Green and Yellow.


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Luvata’s innovative Nordic Green PLUSTM now offers architects unparalleled design freedom and the ability to control the type and intensity of patina. There are no limitations on the length of pre- patinated copper sheet or strip used on a project because whole coils are treated on the production line, not just limited size sheets. So, for the first time, architects and installers can determine specific prepatinated copper surfaces for use in long-strip and other larger- scale installation techniques. The process can be accurately controlled so that, as well as the solid green patina colour, other intensities of patina flecks can be created revealing some of the dark oxidised material behind.


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Secret fix top of


the class When it came to providing a smooth, seamless cladding aesthetic to a new £6.2 million building at Ealing’s prestigious St Benedict’s Senior School, it was going to take a secret fix – and SikaTack Panel Adhesive was the perfect, cost-effective solution. A winner at this years RIBA awards, the new school building replacing a dated 1960s structure. Making it stand out within the school, it features 1000m2


of ivory polished


concrete panels specified by architect Buschow Henley, held securely in place by SikaTack Panel Adhesive – without a single nut or bolt spoiling the façade. Click here to request literature


Kawneer helps bring


the curtain up Curtain walling from architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer is cladding a long-awaited extension that has almost doubled the original size of a Kent shopping centre. Kawneer’s AA®


110 structurally silicone


glazed curtain wall system has been used on all glazed elevations, as well as a dramatic, colourfully-lit, triple-height atrium, to a 200,000ft² extension at the County Square Shopping Centre in Ashford. Installed by Kawneer- approved sub-contractor Parry Bowen for the design and build contractor, to a design by Leslie Jones Architects, the project for ING Real Estate took almost three years to complete.


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A big impact at sports hall Marley Eternit’s cement-bonded particle building board – Duripanel – has recently been installed on the walls and ceilings of a new £5.5m state-of-the-art, multi-purpose sports hall at St Bede’s School in Eastbourne. Duripanel offers high levels of durability, as well as impact resistance. The density of the board and the fibres within it also give the product enhanced acoustic performance, which was vital on this project as the main hall will be used for examinations and music events at the same time as other areas are being used for sports. In most cases Duripanel is hidden from view, but on this project it was exposed, with a paint finish applied on-site.


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Creating the effect Petrarch panels from CEP Claddings have been used to create a natural Welsh slate effect for the façade of the new £100 million Eagles Meadow shopping centre in the heart of Wrexham. Set within North Wales’ largest town, Eagles Meadow offers a contemporary interpretation of the region’s traditional slate materials. Four different sizes of CEP’s Petrarch panels, in contrasting shades of riven textured Heather and Graphite, provide the perfect foil to the dark blue grey Welsh slate used extensively for copping, paving and walling the landscape of the project. Click here to request literature


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