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Mapei joins specification at aquatic centre M
apei systems have been used
to complete an extensive waterproofing and tiling project at
The Sandwell Aquatic Centre in Smethwick, near Birmingham – venue of one of the largest international sporting events in 2022. The installation throughout the three pool areas, changing rooms and atrium was completed by P. Plunkett Tiling Contractors Ltd for main contractor, The Wates Group. The Mapei specification will also be continued for legacy phase works, before the centre opens as a community facility this summer. Mapei’s specification spanned the main pool,
diving pool, studio pool,
changing rooms and atrium area. Over 35 tiles designs were installed, totalling in excess of 9,000 m2, with over 6,500 m2 of screed specified. Throughout the project, Mapei attended the site on a fortnightly basis to provide technical support.
Three preparation products were used throughout the centre’s pool areas: fast drying Topcem special hydraulic binder was applied to pool bases and Nivoplan smoothing mortar, with the addition of Planicrete
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Synthetic rubber latex admixture, was used to render the pool walls. Mapelastic Turbo – a two-component, quick-drying elastic cementitious mortar incorporating Mapenet 150 alkali-resistant glass fibre reinforcing mesh – was used on the pool and surrounding floors to reduce installation waiting times. To tank pool walls, the specification included Mapelastic Smart – a highly flexible, cementitious waterproof membrane, incorporating Mapenet 150.
also Throughout the pools and surrounds,
floor tiles were installed with Keraquick S1 – a quick-setting, deformable cementitious adhesive which features a very low VOC
formulation – and Kerapoxy two-component, acid resistant epoxy grout. All wall tiles were installed
P9 cementitious
adhesive and Kerapoxy grout. Topcem, Nivoplan and Planicrete were also used to prepare floors and walls throughout changing areas. Surfaces were then tanked with Mapeguard WP 200 alkali- resistant waterproofing and anti-fracture membrane, Mapelastic AquaDefense ready to use, flexible, ultra-rapid drying waterproofing membrane and Mapeband alkali-resistant rubber tape. Floor tiles were installed with Keraquick S1 adhesive and walls tiles with Adesilex P9 adhesive. The changing room installation was completed with Ultracolor Plus grout – an anti-efflorescence, quick- setting and drying polymer-modified formulation, DropEffect®
featuring water-repellent
and mould-resistant BioBlock® – and Kerapoxy grout was used in the shower areas. Tiles throughout the centre’s Atrium were also installed with Keraquick S1 adhesive and Ultracolor Plus grout.
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Riverside apartments feature a-rated Magply boards for kitchen fi t out
An acclaimed new residential development in a Thameside location is currently being fi tted out, with four of the apartment buildings featuring the use of 18 mm Magply boards, manufactured by IPP Ltd., being used in all the kitchens due to their unique range of physical benefi ts. With the design of the structure prioritising the use of non-combustible materials in response to recent changes to the Building Regulations, the A1 rated Magply boards were chosen to form pattresses within the external walls on the basis of the material’s unique combination of strength and fi re resistance as well as the product’s past performance in similar applications. Riverscape is a joint development involving international redevelopment specialists, Ballymore and Oxley, with Reddy Architecture + Urbanism leading the design team. The fi rst four blocks, which rise to eight, 10 and 14 storeys, will create a total of 249 dwellings of different sizes and specifi cations, for social housing tenants and shared equity ownership. Meanwhile S & R London Ltd – responsible for all of the internal partitioning – is using the 18 mm Magply boards to form pattress boards across the outer walls.
01621 776252
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Walls_DPR.indd 1 Marmox Multiboards line new Morpeth Leisure Centre
The construction of a stylish and sensitively designed riverside leisure centre in Northumberland is making full use of high performance tilebacker boards from the range of Marmox Ltd. throughout all of its wet areas: selected as a lining to blockwork walls in place of traditional render. A total area of 2,600 m2 of Multiboards are being installed using 10,000 of the special Marmox dowels and Marmox waterproofi ng tape, ready for the installation of mainly white ceramic tiles to complete a fully waterproof lining to the poolside walls and other wet areas. Marmox Multiboards are manufactured from extruded polystyrene (XPS) covered in a layer of polymer concrete which offers an ideal surface across which to fi x tiles, while they can be combined with the manufacturer’s special tapes and multipurpose sealant to create fully waterproof wetroom installations. This includes Multiboards use across the fl oor and upstand areas to create a tanked interior which also offers excellent loadbearing capacity, and whose thermal performance is even recognised by The Energy Saving Trust.
01634 835290
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