Stone Cladding muHafu yeNguva-dombo yakapfeka

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.”

Ane mavara Marble Natural Square Stone Mosaics

“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.

Saka timu yePolycor inodzokera mubudiriro.

Zvichakadaro, imwe mhinduro yakatanga kuzara munyika yeA&D. Mukushamisika kuVega, iyo 1 cm slabs kutengesa kwakatanga mumusika wekugara uko vagadziri nevatengi vavo vakasvetukira mukana wekubatanidza maficha emadziro mumashawa, yakazara slab backsplashes uye isina musono vertical fireplaces. (Unogona kuona magadzirirwo aya mubhuku rino rekutarisa.) Pachikamu chetatu chehuremu hwezvakajairwa masendimita matatu avaibata nazvo, vagadziri vekugadzira vaive vasisatyore misana yavo kuita tsandanyama svumbunuro yakazara kumusoro kwekaunda kuti vaise backsplash. Panguva gumi simba rekushanduka-shanduka, (nekuda kwekutsigirwa kwayo kwepolycarbonate composite) kwaenda kwaive kunetseka kuti ma slabs akatarisa pachoto anotsemuka pakuiswa.

Musika wekugara waivepo wematombo matete.

Muenzaniso we backsplash yakagadzirwa kubva kune inopfuurira slab ye-ultra-thin White Cherokee American marble.

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.

Zvavakagadzira inzira isina musono inochengetedza nguva, vashandi nemari: Eclad 1.

Ultra-yakaonda American Black granite inoita seyakayangarara, inotsigirwa neisingaonekwe Eclad 1 chimiro.

Iyo nyowani dhizaini yakavakirwa pane aruminiyamu grid sisitimu yakasanganiswa neiyo undercut anchors inonamirwa kuseri kwemasendimita mapaneru saka inoramba yakavanzika kana uchishandisa dombo rakatetepa kudaro. Iwo mapaneru anowanikwa kusvika 9 tsoka ne5 tsoka uye anorema makirogiramu matanhatu chete pamakumbo mana paavhareji, zvichiita kuti kuisirwa kuve basa riri nyore.

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Zvibatiso zvinoramba zvakavanzwa panzvimbo isina kuvharika.

Kuiswa kwekaviri kumhanya

Iyo yakazara sisitimu inopa pre-yakadhirowa lightweight matombo mapaneru pamusoro peanodzivirira cladding chimiro chinoita kamwe anorema matombo mapaneru nyore kuisa. Chinyakare cladding masisitimu anovimba nedombo gobvu rakasanganiswa neanorema cramps, tambo uye zvimedu. NeEclad 1 vanoisa vanongotsveta slabs munzvimbo uye kunyura masikuru mumakomba akadhirowa.

Muenzaniso wechikamu chidiki Eclad 1 system inoseka.

“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.”