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Shackerley Offers Rainscreen Specifiers a New Design Tool

Keen to demonstrate the versatility of its ceramic granite ventilated rainscreen cladding façades, Queen’s Award winning manufacturer and distributor Shackerley is offering architects and other specifiers a useful CD-ROM design tool free of charge.

Like Shackerley’s Sureclad Rainscreen Cladding brochure, The ‘Cladding Colour Palette’ disc enables the user to explore the many different styles and colourways available in the company’s standard ceramic granite cladding panel range. However, the disc goes a step further by offering the user the opportunity to see digital representations of rainscreen façades installed using each of the ceramic granite slabs in the portfolio.

Three very different building styles with fully clad and partially clad elevations demonstrate the aesthetic effect of each slab in situ. With the click of a mouse, a different building or style of ceramic granite slab can be selected, allowing the user to compare different effects and shortlist preferred options at a very early stage in the design process.

The package incorporates useful tools to enable the user to take a closer look at the detail of each building and its rainscreen façade or manipulate the image. The images created can be downloaded and used as reference or incorporated in client presentations.

Simon Newell, Commercial Director of Shackerley said: “We are now able to offer so many ceramic granite slabs for use in ventilated rainscreens that we felt it was important to provide a more dynamic visual guide to the very different aesthetic effects that can be created. In conjunction with our Sureclad brochure and our ceramic granite sampling service the Colour Cladding Palette disc is designed to provide inspiration for our specifier customers and help them to visualise the completed appearance of their new build or refurb project.”

For a copy of the new ‘Cladding Colour Palette’ CD-ROM and Shackerley’s Sureclad Rainscreen Cladding brochure, please telephone 0800 783 0391.

Specifiers can use the disc to evaluate the appearance of different ceramic granite panels on three very different types of elevation.