Shackerley's engineered stone facades shape up beautifully at Kew Bridge West
Shackerley has demonstrated the extraordinary design potential and versatility of its SureClad® ventilated cladding offer by supplying an innovative engineered stone facade system for a challenging installation at Kew Bridge West, an exclusive development of 336 luxury apartments in North London.
2400m² of fully prefabricated SureClad® engineered stone cladding in a natural limestone colourway and honed finish has provided a premium quality aesthetic for the lower storeys of the nine apartment buildings that form this stunning complex, designed by Stockwool and developed by St James, part of the Berkeley Group.
Two circular towers called for smooth and flawless rounded facades, presenting Shackerley and Kent based specialist facade installation contractor Stanmore with a significant technical challenge. Shackerley's SureClad® Hang On system had to be customised to cater for large format curved panels, cut to a radius from solid blocks of engineered stone. In addition, elegantly faceted facades were required to clad other curved elevations of adjacent buildings.
Shackerley and Stanmore worked very closely together, developing bespoke solutions at every stage, from the design of the SureClad® facades to the meticulous scheduling and non-standard palletisation of the prefabricated system for safe delivery to site. Stanmore's installers also visited Shackerley to receive expert training in the use of the SureClad® system.
As this was the first time that the SureClad® system had been used in conjunction with curved engineered stone panels, the two companies arranged for the bespoke SureClad® system to be tested at VINCI Technology Centre UK where it was shown to meet all NHBC criteria.
Shackerley has successfully clad hundreds of buildings, including many high profile developments, with its SureClad® ceramic granite cladding facade systems and is the clear market leader in the UK. Highly specialised manufacturing facilities at its ISO 9001 certified factory include bespoke diamond-tipped undercut drilling machines that provide recesses for undercut anchors that are used to prefabricate every SureClad® facade panel. As the Kew Bridge West development shows, these facilities are now being employed to prefabricate large format engineered stone, including curved facade panels, in exactly the same way, for installation as part of a SureClad® system.
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Shackerley’s SureClad® engineered stone cladding provides the ideal alternative to GRC cladding
For projects that require look a natural stone facade or GRC cladding with large format stone cladding panel sizes, Shackerley’s SureClad® engineered stone cladding system is the ideal choice. Shackerley’s SureClad® engineered stone facade system is agglomerated stone cladding system. Unlike a GRC facade, Shackerley’s SureClad® engineered stone cladding system is reconstituted stone cladding with zero cement content and very low resin levels.
Our engineered stone facades are sometime called technical stone cladding panels and are manufactured by Shackerley to provide an installation-ready, lightweight cladding engineered stone rainscreen. Our large format cladding panels are manufactured with undercut anchors for a mechanical fixed cladding solution that is secure and suitable for any engineered stone facade design requirement.
Our mechanical fixed facades mean each panel is secured with secret fix undercut anchors and our engineered stone rainscreen is produced under factory conditions to achieve the correct stone facade windload requirements
Our large format facade panels usually mean our engineered stone facades span floor to floor on larger high-rise buildings.
Engineered stone is a SureClad® product, which is an agglomerated stone facade with very low resin levels.
Shackerley’s SureClad® engineered stone cladding answers the non-combustible cladding requirements of BS EN13501-1. Our engineered stone facade system is an A2 S1 D0 rated non-combustible facade to BS EN 13501-1.
