Trent to clad two car parks in Newcastle & Manchester city centre redevelopment schemes
Trent has recently secured two cladding contracts for car park projects at city centre redevelopment schemes in Newcastle and Manchester, the former using precast concrete and the latter using GRC (glass reinforced concrete).
Concrete's inherent durability and impact resistance, combined with the buildability benefits accruing from prefabricated elements, make precast and GRC ideal cladding materials for car park projects.
Trent has just started on site at a car park forming part of the Spinningfields development, which will provide 375,000m2 of high-quality commercial, civic, residential, retail and open space in the heart of Manchester. Trent's £403,000 contract covers 2100 square metres of reconstructed red Sandstone GRC spandrel panels in various sizes. The units vary considerably, but are typically 3m long and 1.5m high - the largest feasible size for a GRC panel, thus enabling rapid erection. Carey Jones Architects' original design intent was for the cladding to be in Manchester red sandstone to complement surrounding buildings. Specifying reconstructed stone GRC enabled large panels to be incorporated into the cladding design, and enhanced both the aesthetics and buildability of the project.
In early March, Trent starts work on the second contract on St. James Boulevard in Newcastle and again this car park forms part of a city centre redevelopment scheme. Trent's £397,000 contract covers 233 square metres of white reconstructed stone spandrel panels running around the car park, together with 582 square metres of matching cladding panels on the gable ends. In addition, Trent is producing 318 square metres of column casings in a buff coloured reconstructed stone finish.
Spinningfields Project
Contractor: AMEC
Architect: Carey Jones
Newcastle Project
Contractor: Shepherd Construction Ltd.
Architects Architect: Napper Architects
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, 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 160 people.
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