Refurbishment
Steel and Aluminium systems provide lightweight cladding and roofing solutions for refurbishment projects. Linear Façades are particularly popular, in taking an old and tired building and renovating its appearance to a highly modern and attractive finish.
Case Study: Elland Medicare, West Yorkshire
LINEAR façade systems from Euroclad have dramatically transformed an office and
manufacturing premises in Elland, West Yorkshire for new occupier Medicare. Formerly a
manufacturing facility in need of renovation, a LINEAR façade has converted a weary building
into a striking contemporary office property.
Designed by architects Martin Walsh Associates, the renovation utilised a LINEAR rainscreen
façade for the vertical elevations of the building. This approach to the renovation of the exterior
of a tired building affords a transformation which is both time efficient and cost effective. In
addition, it increases thermal and acoustic performance as well as energy efficiency.
The renovation included the installation of a Euroclad trapezoidal roof system, manufactured in
Corus Colorcoat HPS200® pre-finished steel. The system is simple to install, using the same
components as Euroclad’s Elite System 1, with a 32/1000 forward profile fixed over the Eurobar
spacer system, on a 19/1000 liner. Elite Systems offer simple but robust detailing and design
freedom in a recyclable construction.
Case Study: Intek House
The aesthetic, mechanical and economic advantages of rainscreen cladding
systems are being increasingly appreciated in the UK not only for prestigious
new developments but also for refurbishment and renovation. An outstanding
example of the latter has just been completed in Hove on the South Coast of
England, where Euroclad Facades’ Alpolic®/fr aluminium composite material
and Euroseam standing seam roofing system have helped to transform a 30
year old industrial-style building into a stylish new office block.
Intek House in Ellen Street is a development by Sussex-based Matsim
Properties, who were looking not only to improve the appearance of the
building but also to add an extra floor. Situated close to the sea, the building
is subjected to an aggressive climate, which made the company reluctant to
specify a conventional steel cladding panel system. They decided to opt for
aluminium instead.
Alpolic®/fr comprises 0.5 mm thick aluminium skins laminated to a noncombustible mineral core and is up to 15% lighter than solid aluminium
sheeting with equivalent rigidity. This lightness facilitates fixing and was an
important consideration in the material’s specification for this application. So,
too, was the flexibility of the Linear 3 fixing system that was selected for the
installation.
A feature has been made of the building’s main column lines with the
rainscreen cladding panels running vertically to their full height. Panels were
then fitted horizontally to the infills in short lengths to offer a textural,
orthogonal contrast while keeping to one colour – champagne silver metallic.
In order to achieve this effect, Industrial Construction Sussex, Euroclad’s
approved specialist cladding contractor, provided a fixing grid in the form of
brackets mechanically fastened into the edge of the structural concrete floor
slabs by means of stainless steel anchors.
Aluminium box sections were
secured to the brackets at 2900 – 3000 mm centres to span the full height of
the building on all four elevations, great care being taken to ensure this main
frame was precisely aligned. The secondary rails were then fitted together
with Rockwool Rainscreen Duoclad batts retained by specially-designed ‘umbrella’ anchors.
Finally, the Alpolic®/fr panels were installed, the 95 mm thick Rockwool
insulation leaving a gap of approximately 35 mm behind the panels. This
continuous air gap enables ventilation over the full height of the four storey
building, whilst an aluminium mesh fitted at ground level prevents insects
gaining access behind the façade.
In all, some 1,000 m² of Alpolic®/fr cladding was installed achieving a Uvalue
of 0.35 W/m²K.
The refurbishment was completed by a new 850 m²
Euroseam curved standing seam roof (achieving the optimum target U-value
of 0.2 W/m²K) and blue polyester powder coated aluminium window frames.
Euroclad also supplied window jambs, heads and sill sections to complete the
window openings. Industrial Construction
Sussex, said: “We have vast experience with the Linear 3 system supported
by Euroclad Façade's excellent technical assistance. Precise alignment of the
main frame made installing the panels very easy despite the complications.
The contract has really gone very well.”
Case Study: Mosside Leisure
A sports centre in one of Manchester’s most deprived districts has been given
a radical facelift using Euroclad’s high performance rainscreen cladding
system, the design flexibility of which helped overcome a number of technical
challenges.
Specified for Moss Side Leisure Centre by project architects, Pozzoni Design
Group, Euroclad’s rainscreen system is made in Aluminium Composite
Material that combines lightweight characteristics (15% lighter than solid
aluminium sheet with equivalent rigidity) with strength and excellent panel
flatness.
Making a bold visual statement, the rainscreen system in Canary
Yellow is used to enclose the structure’s steel frame in the form of a 10m
high curved on plan façade fronted by a 3.5m high ‘goal post’ feature
straddling the new main entrance foyer.
Chris Cook, co-director of Cheshire-based Churchmore Ltd, who siteassembled
and installed the 20/20 rainscreen system commented: “The
curved on plan elevation made this project all the more complex but,
thankfully, the Euroclad system is built up on a series of screwed brackets
that accept either an angle or T- piece which facilitated three dimensional
adjustability.”