Trent Concrete provides GRC for Surrey Institute of Art & Design
Trent Concrete will start delivering a series of GRC (glass reinforced concrete) panels for the new library and resource centre at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design's Epsom campus on 12th February.
The 112 units will comprise a GRC feature band recessed into a traditionally constructed block and brickwork cavity wall. GRC was specified as a lightweight material that would easily be supported by the block and brickwork. The units are in a buff reconstructed stone mix featuring a bespoke black fleck, and measure 440mm wide by 1500mm long by just 18mm thick.
This project is the first undertaken by Trent since its acquisition of Mouldform GRC. Architectural GRC forms a new product line for Trent and is highly complementary to reconstructed stone cladding, ideal when a lighter weight and more manoeuvrable material is required.
Architect: Gibberds
Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne Limited
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 where it employs more than 200 people.
Editorial contact: Mike Downing
Tel: 0115 987 9747
Email: mike@trentconcrete.ltd.uk
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