Reconstructed stone specified in lieu of natural sandstone
Architects Robinson Patterson changed the traditional cladding originally specified for a new office building in Donegall Square, Belfast, to a reconstructed stone panel system solution based on early input from Trent Concrete. This solution provided greater value for money and shorter programme times, whilst retaining the aesthetic feel of traditional natural stone.
Trent's contract covered 200 panels in a wide range of designs, including many one-off sections, in an acid-etched replica sandstone mix to complement the surrounding buildings in Belfast's main civic square.
Client: Gilbert-Ash NI Ltd.
Architect: Robinson Patterson
Engineer: McAuley and Browne
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.
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