Trent Concrete wins accolades at The Concrete Society Awards
Trent Concrete has won The Concrete Society & British Precast Concrete Federation Award for Excellence in Precast Concrete, and a Concrete Society Certificate of Excellence, for its precast cladding work at Clearwater Court, the Thames Water eadquarters in Reading.
Trent's structural precast solution for the new North Stand at Ipswich Town Football Club was also commended at last week's Concrete Society Awards. Trent Concrete's reconstructed stone cladding is a focal point of the Clearwater Court building, and fulfils the client's requirements for a robust, unostentatious design. The radiussed elevations of the façade are in mullion and spandrel format, featuring extensively up to four floors and at roof/plant room level. Other sections, such as cores to the atrium and end lift shafts, adopt a wall panel scheme with false joints to replicate the spandrel and mullion features, and achieve aesthetic continuity. In total, 5700m2 of light Portland Stone coloured cladding, with a rubbed surface finish, was produced.
Commenting on Trent's work, the judges described the cladding as "beautifully made and detailed" and "clean and crisp, good jointing".
At Ipswich Town, Trent produced a series of architectural-quality finished units for the lower and upper tier terraces, staircases, fascias, step blocks and vomitory and spine walls. The mix and finish varied from plain grey ex-mould to sparkling white acid-etched. The judges commented that on the "impressively produced white precast structure" and recognised that it was a "high quality precast project secured in preference to structural steel."
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 employs more than 200 people.
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