Kisi tal-ġebel f'nofs il-Ħin miksi bil-ġebel

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.”

Mużajk tal-ġebel tal-kwadru naturali tal-irħam ikkulurit

“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.

Allura t-tim Polycor ħaseb lura fl-iżvilupp.

Sadanittant, reazzjoni oħra bdiet tinfirex fid-dinja A&D. Fi ftit ta 'sorpriża għal Vega, il-bejgħ ta' ċangaturi ta '1 ċm telaq fis-suq residenzjali fejn id-disinjaturi u l-klijenti tagħhom qabżu ċ-ċans li jinkorporaw ħitan tal-karatteristiċi fid-doċoċ, backsplashes taċ-ċangaturi sħaħ u fuklari vertikali bla saldaturi. (Tista 'tara dawk id-disinji f'dan il-lookbook.) F'terz tal-piż tal-materjal tas-soltu ta' 3 ċm li kienu qed jittrattaw, il-fabbrikanti ma kinux għadhom ikissru daharhom biex muskolu ċangatura sħiħa fuq counter biex jinstallaw backsplash. F'10 darbiet il-qawwa tal-flessjoni, (grazzi għall-appoġġ kompost tal-polikarbonat tagħha) marret kien l-inkwiet li ċangaturi orjentati vertikalment fuq il-nar se xaqq mal-installazzjoni.

Is-suq residenzjali kien abbord għall-ġebel irqiq.

Eżempju ta 'backsplash fabbrikat minn ċangatura kontinwa ta' ultra-rqiqa Irħam abjad Cherokee Amerikan.

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.

Dak li żviluppaw hija sistema bla xkiel li tiffranka ħin, xogħol u flus: Eclad 1.

Ultra-rqiqa Granit Iswed Amerikan jidher li jżomm f'wiċċ l-ilma, sostnut mill-istruttura Eclad 1 inviżibbli.

Id-disinn il-ġdid huwa bbażat fuq sistema ta 'grilja tal-aluminju flimkien ma' ankri undercut imwaħħla mad-dahar tal-pannelli ta '1 ċm sabiex jibqgħu moħbija meta tuża ġebel irqiq bħal dan. Il-pannelli huma disponibbli sa 9 piedi b'5 piedi u jiżnu biss sitt liri kull pied kwadru bħala medja, u jagħmlu l-proċess ta 'installazzjoni kompitu aktar faċli.

Tgħallem AKTAR DWAR IS-SISTEMI TAL-FAĊĊATA TAL-ĠEBEL

L-ankri jibqgħu moħbija għal wiċċ mhux ostakolat.

Installazzjoni bid-doppju tal-pass

Is-sistema kompluta tipprovdi pannelli tal-ġebel ħfief imtaqqbin minn qabel fuq struttura ta 'kisi protettiv li tagħmel pannelli tal-ġebel darba tqal aktar faċli biex jiġu installati. Is-sistemi ta 'kisi tradizzjonali jiddependu fuq ġebel eħxen flimkien ma' bugħawwieġ, ċineg u clips ineffiċjenti. Bl-installaturi ta 'Eclad 1 sempliċement jiżolqu ċangaturi f'posthom u jegħrqu l-viti fit-toqob imtaqqbin minn qabel.

Eżempju ta' mock up ta' sistema Eclad 1 fuq skala żgħira.

“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.”