Stienbekleding yn Half the Time-stien beklaaid

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.”

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“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.

Dat it Polycor-team dûkte werom yn ûntwikkeling.

Underwilens begon in oare reaksje te perkolearjen yn 'e A&D-wrâld. Yn in bytsje ferrassing foar Vega naam de ferkeap fan platen fan 1 sm op 'e wenmerk, wêr't ûntwerpers en har kliïnten de kâns sprongen om funksjemuorren yn te nimmen yn dûsen, folsleine plaat-backsplashes en naadleaze fertikale kachels. (Jo kinne sjen dy ûntwerpen yn dit lookbook.) By in tredde fan it gewicht fan 'e gewoane 3 sm materiaal se wienen dwaande mei, makken fabrikanten net mear brekke harren rêch ta spier in folsleine slab omheech oer in toanbank te ynstallearjen in backsplash. By 10 kear de flexural sterkte, (mei tank oan syn polycarbonate gearstalde backing) fuort wie de soargen dat fertikaal oriïntearre platen op 'e kamin soe crack by ynstallaasje.

De wenmerk wie oan board foar tinne stien.

In foarbyld fan in backsplash makke fan in trochgeande slab fan ultra-tinne Wite Cherokee Amerikaansk marmer.

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.

Wat se ûntwikkele is in naadloos systeem dat tiid, arbeid en jild besparret: Ekklaai 1.

Ultra-tin Amerikaansk swart granyt liket te driuwen, stipe troch de ûnsichtbere Eclad 1-struktuer.

It nije ûntwerp is basearre op in aluminium rastersysteem yn kombinaasje mei ûndersnijde ankers oan 'e efterkant fan' e 1 sm panielen, sadat se ferburgen bliuwe by it brûken fan sa'n tinne stien. De panielen binne beskikber oant 9 foet by 5 foet en weagje mar seis pûn per fjouwerkante foet gemiddeld, wêrtroch it ynstallaasjeproses in makliker taak is.

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Ankers bliuwe ferburgen foar in unobstructed oerflak.

Ynstallaasje op twa kear it tempo

It folsleine systeem jout pre-boarre lichtgewicht stiennen panielen oer in beskermjende cladding struktuer dat makket ienris swiere stiennen panielen makliker te ynstallearjen. Tradisjoneel beklaaiïngsystemen fertrouwe op dikkere stien kombineare mei omslachtige krampen, riemkes en klips. Mei Eclad 1-ynstallateurs glide gewoan platen yn plak en sinkje de skroeven yn 'e foarboarre gatten.

In foarbyld fan in lytsskalige Eclad 1 systeem mock up.

“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.”