The new meshing system builds on Shackerley’s fire safety credentials and the company’s solutions-driven approach to helping specifiers comply with legislation on the mandatory use on non-combustible cladding for residential buildings of 11m or more. Shackerley’s SureClad® mesh-backed Ceramic Granite and Natural Stone facade panels are now all classed as A1 for fire safety. The company’s existing meshing process and its SureClad® Engineered Stone system are certified as Class A2-s1-d0 when tested to BS EN13501-1, which also complies with cladding legislation for high-rise residential buildings.
With the development of the new A1-certified meshing system, Shackerley can now offer specifiers an entirely A1 system across its SureClad® Ceramic Granite and Natural Stone ranges, anticipating potential future legislation and offering a best-in-class solution for insurers and mortgage companies.
Brian G Newell, founder and chief executive of Shackerley explains: “Fire safety has, quite rightly, become a main priority for specifiers since the Grenfell tragedy. It’s clear that, though current legislation on non-combustible cladding is focused on residential buildings, fire safety has become a key specification criterion for all buildings; not just for specifiers but also for developers, investors, insurers and mortgage companies.”
“All Shackerley facade systems and finishes are non-combustible, but we wanted to ensure we could offer anti-fragmentation, mesh-backed systems, that are completely A1-certified. Developing a meshing process that has been tested as A1 to BS EN13501-1 enables us to do that.”
The mesh is applied to the rear of cladding materials at Shackerley’s ISO 9001- accredited production facility in Lancashire prior to fabrication of the panels. It provides an important safety measure for SureClad® installations by preventing fragmentation of installed panels due to catastrophic impact, thereby protecting against the potential for any falling debris.
Brian adds: “Safety is important throughout the lifecycle of the cladding system, including transportation to site, installation and service life. Our systems not only prioritise fire safety but have also been seismic-tested and protected with the anti-fragmentation mesh, ensuring that specifiers and developers can be completely confident of safety with SureClad®, alongside aesthetics and performance.”
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Shackerley SureClad® ceramic cladding
Shackerley’s SureClad® ceramic cladding is the ideal ceramic rainscreen solution for any facade. The lightweight ceramic cladding system uses mechanically fixed large format cladding panels to create a ceramic facade that looks great on any building. Robust and hardwearing, the mechanical fixed cladding delivers a UV stable facade that will not fade or discolour over time. The SureClad® ceramic cladding system is UV resistant and creates a facade that is resistant to algae and graffiti. The large format
Ceramic cladding panels manufactured by Shackerley for our ceramic rainscreen system provide an installation-ready lightweight cladding, with undercut anchors for a mechanical fixed cladding solution that is secure and suitable for any porcelain facade design requirement.
Mechanical fixed facades mean each panel is secured with secret fix undercut anchors and produced under factory conditions to achieve the project facade windload requirements
Shackerley’s SureClad® ceramic cladding answers the non-combustible cladding requirements of BS EN13501-1. Our ceramic facade system is an A1 rated rainscreen. We offer a choice of A1 rated or A2 rated anti-fragmentation backing, resulting in an A1 rated ceramic facade or A2 S1 D0 cladding system.
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Shackerley’s SureClad® stone cladding delivers a natural stone facade
Shackerley’s SureClad® stone cladding ranges includes limestone cladding, Portland stone cladding, granite cladding and sandstone cladding as part of our natural stone cladding portfolio, which delivers the natural facade options that architects and developers are looking for.
Often, Shackerley’s stone rainscreen system is used to complement surrounding Portland Stone buildings and we can provide natural stone cladding to match virtually any stone facade with our stone rainscreen systems. The Shackerley SureClad® stone rainscreen can be an invisible fix cladding system that provides a high-quality stone facade for any type of building.
We are also a UK manufacturers of Kerf systems with natural stone facades.
For specifiers or facade installer’s looking stone cladding systems, it provides the benefits of a natural facade with the robust installation of a high-quality natural stone cladding system for a huge variety of Portland Stone facade, limestone facade or granite facade requirements.
Our mechanical fixed facades mean each panel is secured with secret fix undercut anchors and produced under factory conditions to achieve the project’s stone facade windload requirements
A natural stone facade from Shackerley means that the stone cladding is quarried from the ground in blocks and produced into stone facade panels in our UK facade factory
Shackerley’s SureClad® natural stone cladding answers the non-combustible cladding requirements of BS EN13501-1. Our natural stone facade system is an A1 rated rainscreen. We offer a choice of A1 rated or A2 rated anti-fragmentation backing, resulting in an A1 rated porcelain facade or A2 S1 D0 cladding system.
