Còmhdach cloiche ann an leth na clach-ùine air a chòmhdach

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.”

Mosaicean cloiche ceàrnagach nàdarra marmor dathach

“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.

Mar sin bidh sgioba Polycor a’ dol air ais gu leasachadh.

Aig an aon àm, thòisich freagairt eile a’ dol am meud ann an saoghal A&D. Mar rud na iongnadh dha Vega, thòisich reic leacan 1 cm anns a’ mhargaidh còmhnaidh far an do leum luchd-dealbhaidh agus an luchd-dèiligidh air a’ chothrom ballachan feart a thoirt a-steach do fhrasan, backsplashes leac làn agus teallaichean dìreach fuaigheil. (Chì thu na dealbhaidhean sin anns an leabhar-seallaidh seo.) Aig trian de chuideam an stuth àbhaisteach 3 cm ris an robh iad a’ dèiligeadh, cha robh luchd-saothrachaidh a’ briseadh an druim tuilleadh gus leac slàn a thogail suas thairis air cuntair gus backsplash a chuir a-steach. Aig amannan 10 bha an neart sùbailteach, (le taing don taic ioma-fhillte polycarbonate aige) air falbh, an dragh gum biodh leacan dìreach air an teallach a’ sgàineadh air an stàladh.

Bha am margadh còmhnaidh air bòrd airson clach tana.

Eisimpleir de backsplash dèanta bho leac leantainneach de ultra-tana Marmor Ameireaganach geal Cherokee.

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.

Is e na leasaich iad siostam fuaigheil a shàbhaileas ùine, saothair agus airgead: Eclad 1.

Ultra-tana Clach-ghràin dubh Ameireaganach a rèir coltais a’ seòladh, le taic bhon structar Eclad 1 do-fhaicsinneach.

Tha an dealbhadh ùr stèidhichte air siostam clèithe alùmanum ann an co-bhonn ri acraichean fo-ghearradh ceangailte ri cùl nam pannalan 1 cm gus am bi iad falaichte nuair a bhios iad a’ cleachdadh clach cho tana. Tha na pannalan rim faighinn suas gu 9 troighean le 5 troighean agus chan eil cuideam ach sia notaichean gach troigh cheàrnagach aca, a’ dèanamh a’ phròiseas stàlaidh na obair nas fhasa.

ionnsaich tuilleadh mu shiostaman aghaidh cloiche

Tha acraichean fhathast falaichte airson uachdar gun bhacadh.

Stàladh dà uair nas luaithe

Tha an siostam iomlan a’ toirt seachad panalan cloiche aotrom air an drileadh ro-làimh thairis air structar còmhdach dìon a tha ga dhèanamh nas fhasa panalan cloiche a bha uair trom a chuir a-steach. Tha siostaman còmhdaich traidiseanta an urra ri cloich nas tiugh còmhla ri cromagan trom, strapan agus criomagan. Le luchd-stàlaidh Eclad 1 dìreach slaod leacan nan àite agus cuir sgriothan a-steach do na tuill ro-drileadh.

Eisimpleir de shiostam beag-sgèile Eclad 1 magadh.

“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.”