A2-s1,d0 engineered stone facade system
Shackerley’s SureClad® Engineered Stone cladding system has been used to create the facade at Stratford Mill; a luxury build to rent (BTR) development for Anthology in East London.
A showpiece development delivered as part of the Stratford Waterfront Regeneration, a £1.1 billion waterside cultural quarter that builds on the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games, Stratford Mill is composed of two buildings – ‘Malt House’ and ‘Corn House’. The buildings provide 3650m2 of commercial accommodation on the lower floors, along with 75 luxury apartments, with a link structure that creates a communal roof garden for residential tenants.
Shackerley’s SureClad® Engineered Stone cladding system has been installed in two contrasting colourways, with white Valpolicella SureClad® Engineered Stone cladding installed for the beams and columns, and grey Valpolicella Engineered Stone facade panels used for the infill sections of the facade. Both shades of engineered stone facade panel were specified in a sandblasted finish. The project leverages the variety of colours and finishes in the SureClad® Engineered Stone cladding range to create depth and interest in the lightweight facade.
The SureClad® Engineered Stone A2-s1,d0 rated cladding system has been installed for a total facade area of almost 6,200 m2 using large format 3050mmx 1240mm cladding panels, manufactured at one of Shackerley’s ISO 9001 certified UK factories in Lancashire. The system was installed using Shackerley’s SureClad® Hang On installation system.
The Stratford Mill project builds on Shackerley’s relationship with main contractor, Watkin Jones, who specified the Shackerley SureClad® facade system in preference to the original GRC specification. The SureClad® cladding system has previously been specified for Watkin Jones student accommodation projects, including Market House in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Mungo’s in Glasgow, providing a lightweight stone facade solution that delivers a high-end aesthetic and compliance with cladding fire safety requirements.
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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.
