Stenbeklædning i Half the Time-stenbeklædt

After decades quarrying, fabricating and supplying stone facades, Hugo Vega, Vice President of Sales at Polycor, noticed that the architects he was calling on were lacking a thin stone veneer that was light enough and strong enough for cladding large-scale architectural projects. After some R&D within the company, Polycor went on to release its 1 cm reinforced slabs and Vega returned to his architects in triumph. Only their response was, “That’s great, but we need a way to hang it.”

Farverige marmor naturlige firkantede stenmosaikker

“The 1 cm product was a great innovation, but there was no way to apply it quickly and easily on large-scale projects,” Vega said.

Så Polycor-teamet dykkede tilbage i udviklingen.

I mellemtiden begyndte et andet svar at trænge ind i A&D-verdenen. Som lidt af en overraskelse for Vega tog salget af 1 cm plader fart på boligmarkedet, hvor designere og deres kunder slog til med chancen for at inkorporere vægvægge i brusere, fyldige plader og sømløse lodrette pejse. (Du kan se disse designs i denne lookbook.) Ved en tredjedel af vægten af ​​det sædvanlige 3 cm materiale, de havde at gøre med, brækkede fabrikanterne ikke længere deres ryg for at samle en hel plade op over en disk for at installere en backsplash. Ved 10 gange bøjningsstyrken (takket være dens polycarbonatkompositbagside) var bekymringen væk for, at vertikalt orienterede plader på pejsen ville revne ved installation.

Boligmarkedet var ombord for tynde sten.

Et eksempel på en backsplash fremstillet af en kontinuerlig plade af ultratynd Hvid Cherokee amerikansk marmor.

That was great news, but Vega’s customers are typically working on commercial, not residential, specifications. So he continued to mull over this problem of adhering thin stone cladding to the exteriors of architectural projects. From time to time he would bump into the team from eclad at job sites where thicker panels of Polycor marble and granite were being installed with existing eclad systems, structural supports laid over existing facades in a modular fashion. A world leader in stone cladding systems, eclad has been creating and refining cladding systems since the 1990s. They too were seeing the same need in the market as the Polycor team – a fast and efficient way to clad with ultra-thin slabs. And so together the companies decided it was time to team up to bring a comprehensive thin stone cladding system to market.

Det, de udviklede, er et problemfrit system, der sparer tid, arbejde og penge: Eclad 1.

Ultra tynd Amerikansk sort granit ser ud til at flyde, understøttet af den usynlige Eclad 1-struktur.

Det nye design er baseret på et aluminiumsgittersystem i kombination med underskårne ankre fastgjort på bagsiden af ​​1 cm panelerne, så de forbliver skjulte, når der bruges så tynde sten. Panelerne er tilgængelige op til 9 fod gange 5 fod og vejer kun seks pund per kvadratfod i gennemsnit, hvilket gør installationsprocessen til en lettere opgave.

LÆR MERE OM STENFACADESYSTEMER

Ankre forbliver skjult for en uhindret overflade.

Installation i dobbelt tempo

Det komplette system giver forborede letvægtsstenpaneler over en beskyttende beklædningsstruktur, der gør engang tunge stenpaneler nemmere at installere. Traditionelle beklædningssystemer er afhængige af tykkere sten kombineret med besværlige kramper, stropper og clips. Med Eclad 1-installatører sætter du blot plader på plads og sænker skruerne ned i de forborede huller.

Et eksempel på et Eclad 1-system i lille skala.

“It’s basically a different way of installing the stone,” Vega said. “With traditional cladding systems, the anchors have to be installed one-by-one. The process is more labor intensive. On average, it’s twice as fast installing panels using the Eclad grid system.”