Combined hand-set and stone-faced cladding solution at Arthur Street
Trent Concrete produced a combined hand-set and natural stone-faced cladding solution for an office development on Arthur Street in London.
This approach delivers a greater speed of construction, overcomes site skills shortages and enables improved on-site safety, whilst retaining the traditional masonry appearance required.
Trent's £1.8m contract covered 1150 square metres of precast concrete backing panels to receive hand-set in-situ Portland Stone and Granite on the ground to fourth floors, and 1120 square metres of Portland Stone faced units for the fourth to ninth floors.
The units are predominantly storey-high mullion panels, with associated spandrels. In addition, Trent provided reconstructed Portland stone features to the shear wall areas, and fixed the in-situ stonework to the lower storeys as part of its package.
Client: ShieldPoint
Contractor: HBG Construction Ltd.
Architect: Horan Keogan Ryan
Engineer: Arup
Notes
Trent Concrete is a specialist precast concrete contractor, producing high quality bespoke architectural cladding and structures. Providing a complete solution from detailed design development through skills-based manufacture to on-site erection, Trent Concrete partners with leading developers and specifiers to ensure that their projects gain maximum benefit from prefabrication. Trent Concrete's precast solutions make a major contribution to improved quality, certainty, sustainability, safety and efficiency in the UK construction industry today.
The company has worked on some of the most prestigious projects of recent years, including The Scottish Office and the Toyota GB Plc and Thames Water headquarters buildings, and the quality of its work
is consistently recognised in the form of industry awards. Trent Concrete was founded in 1917 and is based in Nottingham, where it employs more than 160 people.
Editorial contact: David Walker
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Email: lmason@trentconcrete.co.uk
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