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News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Natura Plus rainscreen panels
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 July 2007
Marley Eternit cladding for quick build
Fibre cement cladding panels from Marley Eternit helped architects Nightingale Associates meet the brief to provide a day surgery unit in the shortest timeframe possible.
The lightweight Natura Plus through-coloured rainscreen panels in Anthracite were specified to clad, in an outsized planking effect, the whole of the 1,150m site at Singleton hospital on Sketty Lane, Swansea, for Swansea NHS Trust Richard Golledge of Nightingale Associates said: "We wanted a mechanical system which was quick to install and to minimise the level of wet trades on site"
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We also wanted a panel system that we could use to disguise the repetitive nature of the off-site volumetric approach as each unit is only three metres wide".
"Anthracite was used because the backdrop of the building has a band of trees on the site boundary and dark grey actually helps the building recede into this green backdrop".
This approach, coupled with a partnering contract that brought the design team, contractor and client together at an early stage, more than met the brief, with the volumetric off-site units delivered and erected in just five days".
"The whole project, from inception to completion, took less than 12 months".
"Now the trust has a building with 850m of fire-resistant and low-maintenance envelope that has since won a Lord Mayor's Design Award for the city and county of Swansea".
"Mr Golledge added: "The Marley Eternit cladding was very important to the success of the scheme which is entirely clad in Natura Plus board in a rather monolithic way.
It would have been a very different building if anything else was used".
""Feedback has been very positive".
"The Marley Eternit cladding enhances the design and gives the building a modern 21st century aesthetic".
"It was also a good way of giving the appearance of a 'permanent' contemporary building rather than a 'temporary' building that volumetric off-site manufacture-constructed schemes often give".
Although the office had not used Natura Plus before, they are now using it again, on a new Renal and Cardiac Unit at the Wales and West General Hospital at Carmarthen. Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
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