Combined natural and reconstructed Portland stone for Belgrave House facade
Trent Concrete recently completed its £2.3m cladding contract at Belgrave House, a high profile office development at the rear of Victoria Station on Buckingham Palace Road in London.
The combined natural and reconstructed stone approach provides a high quality, cost effective solution. Natural stone is used on the main elevations, whilst reconstructed stone is used elsewhere to provide an extremely good imitation of the natural stone in both colour and texture.Trent designed, manufactured and erected 350 units in total. In the main these were two-storey mullions, 7.5 metres in height, with a facing of deeply profiled natural Portland stone, and 8.5 metre long spandrels with projecting Portland stone sills. Trent was also responsible for 600 square metres of handset in-situ Portland stone cladding. In addition, Trent produced 1000 square metres of matching reconstructed stone cladding for the service core and plant room. The project also derived benefit from maximising the use of precast and specification of a large panel scheme. This enabled rapid construction and the early enclosure of a weatherproof envelope, allowing follow-on trades to commence sooner.
Client: Belgrave House Development Ltd. & JER Victoria Ltd.
Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd.
Architect: Squire and Partners
Engineer: Whitby Bird and Partners
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 using its own teams, 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 200 people.
Editorial contact: David Walker
Tel: 0115 987 9747
Email: lmason@trentconcrete.co.uk
Trent Concrete Limited - e-mail: quality@trentconcrete.co.uk