GRC cladding specified for high-quality office development in prestigious west end location
Building on its firm belief that GRC will be a major cladding material of the future, Trent Concrete has recently secured the £½m contract for a GRC cladding system on a high-quality office development in a prestigious West End location.
The seven storey office building, to be known as 25-35 Park Lane, is located on a site bounded by Park Lane, Curzon Street and Pitts Head Mews, and is formed as two wings on either side of a listed building.
GRC was specified because of the weight benefits offered against more traditional materials, whilst maintaining the overall aesthetics of stone.
The 613 column casing, soffit and feature band GRC units are all cast in a white acid-etched reconstructed Portland Stone mix. These will be incorporated with an aluminium curtain walling system, manufactured by Plus Wall, and delivered to site as composite units.
Trent's package also includes reconstructed encased structural columns to match the GRC, which Trent will supply to site in early September.
Client: Taylor Warren Developments
Architect: Rolfe Judd
Contractor: Heery International
Engineer: Buro Happold
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
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