Stone Cladding nan mwatye Tan-wòch rekouvèr

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.”

Kolore Marble Natirèl Square Stone Mozayik

“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.

Se konsa, ekip Polycor la tounen nan devlopman.

Pandan se tan, yon lòt repons te kòmanse koule nan mond lan A&D. Nan yon ti sipriz pou Vega, lavant 1 cm dal yo te pran nan mache rezidansyèl la kote konsèpteur yo ak kliyan yo te vole nan chans pou yo enkòpore mi karakteristik nan douch, plen backsplashes dal ak chemine vètikal san pwoblèm. (Ou ka wè desen sa yo nan Lookbook sa a.) Nan yon tyè nan pwa materyèl abityèl 3 cm yo te fè fas ak, fabrikan yo pa t ap kraze do yo ankò nan misk yon dal plen moute sou yon kontwa pou enstale yon backsplash. Nan 10 fwa fòs la flechir, (gras a fè bak polikarbonat li yo konpoze) ale te enkyetid la ke vètikal oryante dal sou chemine a ta krak sou enstale.

Mache rezidansyèl la te abò pou wòch mens.

Yon egzanp yon backsplash fabrike nan yon dal kontinyèl nan ultra-mens Blan Cherokee Ameriken mab.

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.

Sa yo devlope se yon sistèm san pwoblèm ki ekonomize tan, travay ak lajan: Eclad 1.

Ultra-mens Ameriken nwa granit parèt flote, sipòte pa estrikti nan envizib Eclad 1.

Nouvo konsepsyon an baze sou yon sistèm kadriyaj aliminyòm nan konbinezon ak lankr undercut tache nan do a nan panno yo 1 cm pou yo rete kache lè w ap itilize wòch mens sa yo. Panno yo disponib jiska 9 pye pa 5 pye epi yo peze sèlman sis liv pou chak pye kare an mwayèn, sa ki fè pwosesis enstalasyon an vin pi fasil.

APRANN PLIS SOU SISTÈM FACAD WÒCH

Lank yo rete kache pou yon sifas ki san obstak.

Enstalasyon nan de fwa vitès la

Sistèm konplè a bay panno wòch ki lejè ki te fèt avan komanse fouye sou yon estrikti kouvèti pwoteksyon ki fè panno wòch yon fwa lou pi fasil pou enstale. Sistèm CLADDING tradisyonèl yo konte sou pi epè wòch konbine avèk kranp ankonbran, espageti ak klip. Avèk enstalatè Eclad 1, tou senpleman glise dal yo an plas epi koule vis nan twou yo preforés.

Yon egzanp yon ti echèl sistèm Eclad 1 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.”