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News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Lamina External panels
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 August 2006
Marley Eternit cladding in with The
Splendid Group
Cladding panels from Marley Eternit have helped Moren Gregory architects meet a host of design criteria for a new Holiday Inn hotel in Brentford, London.
Cladding panels from Marley Eternit have helped Moren Gregory architects meet a host of design criteria for a new Holiday Inn hotel in Brentford, London The 8mm Lamina External panels have been routed along the grain of the wood-style high-pressure laminate to give a mock joint/strip appearance and as well as forming a rainscreen cladding system, have also been used as insulating panels within a glazing system
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Moren Gregory's head of technical services worked with Marley Eternit's technical department to design a bespoke fixing system that combined structural adhesive with mechanical rivet fixings and it was installed by sub contractors ECL Contracts.
The end result is a stunning, contemporary, High Street take on the Splendid Hotel group's core hotel brand especially considering the constraints the architects were faced with.
The 134-room hotel with banqueting and conferencing facilities and covered secure car parking was built with two-storey steel frame and seven-storey pre-fabricated concrete panel over 16 months by Bowmer and Kirkland on a 3,000m2 brownfield site next to the canal.
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The brief to Moren Gregory, who specialise in hotel, housing and mixed-use developments, was to achieve a design that would attain planning permission since a previous architect's plans had been refused, exploit the canal frontage and incorporate facilities other than bedrooms.
They faced planning constraints on external design, height, car parking, access and materials as well as restrictions by British Waterways on the extent of the development and incorporation of flood relief zones and physical floodwater barriers.
Nevertheless, their design won planning permission.
The Marley Eternit cladding has been used to great extent around the ground and first floor banqueting and conferencing facilities that overlook the canal and to a lesser extent around windows on the remaining storeys to break up the brickwork.
Moren Gregory have used Marley Eternit roofing and panelling materials frequently before and have specified the same Lamina External product on several other major housing/mixed use projects due for construction.
Steve Norris, their head of technical services, specified the wood-style Lamina External for the Holiday Inn as it was an "alternative cheaper cladding panel to the initial panel specification" and was one of several alternatives recommended by the contractor.
"As the feature cladding panel it complements and forms an integral part of the overall design," he said. Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
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