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Shackerley launches new Sureclad brochure Shackerley has launched a new edition of its Sureclad Ventilated Façades brochure containing a more extensive, more detailed Sureclad Ceramic Granite Collection than ever before and a 56-page ‘Gallery of Works’ to inspire the specifier. This reveals how Britain’s premier architectural practices are using the market leading Sureclad system to great effect in healthcare and educational facilities, hotel and leisure developments, retail complexes, commercial buildings and pioneering modular residential schemes across the country. For the first time this extensive Gallery includes the BREEAM ratings achieved for projects, in addition to the specified ceramic granite facade panel, format and finish references. The new brochure explores the sustainable nature of ventilated cladding systems, with reference to new build and retro-fit applications, and looks in more detail at the specific environmental credentials of the Sureclad system. Ceramic granite ranges offered are sourced and manufactured in compliance with the European Ecolabel Certification scheme. Many offer L.E.E.D. credits and panels with up to 40 recycled (pre-consumer waste) content are also available. The Sureclad substructure underpinning each ceramic facade is constructed from aluminium which is one of the most globally abundant metals and a material that can be easily recycled, capable of being re-smelted again and again without loss of performance. The new Sureclad brochure reveals Shacklerley’s extensive range of in-house ISO 90001 certificated prefabrication facilities, and introduces all the latest Sureclad system enhancements which have extended the versatility of the system, such as the new ‘Floor to Floor’ spanning facility and Classic and Corner Detail options. For a copy of the new brochure please call 0800 783 0391, email info@shackerley.com or visit www.shackerley.com Enquiry No 10
Passmores Academy in Essex is one of the latest projects to include Dricon fire retardant protection’
DRICON Celebrates 25 Years Of BBA Accreditation Timber is a valuable and versatile building material, but just like concrete or steel, it can be open to the threat of fire. In April 2012, DRICON, Arch Timber Protection’s water-based fire retardant, will celebrate 25 years of continuous British Board of Agrément (BBA) accreditation, giving confidence and reassurance of long-term and safe fire protection to the contractors, designers and most important of all, occupants of buildings and structures that use timber for all or part of their construction. DRICON, which has been used to protect solid timber and timber panels for more than 30 years worldwide, is the only BBA-approved fire retardant protection for timber. As well as BBA accreditation, Arch has classification reports from independent certification organisations for a wide range of species and thicknesses of timber for a number of different end uses, to confirm customers’ confidence in the fire retardant properties. Arch fire retardant product manager Jacqui Hughes says: “Correct design specification of timber components and the use of proven modern fire retardant treatments can make wood into a long-lasting and safe choice of material. By slowing the rate of combustion and the spread of flame, DRICON can provide extra minutes that can help save lives and reduce damage to buildings. ” DRICON is applied by vacuumpressure impregnation in factory-controlled conditions, and is suitable for interior and weather protected exterior situations. www.archtp.com Enquiry No 11
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