Batu Cladding dina Satengah Time-batu clad

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.

Janten tim Polycor japati deui kana pamekaran.

Samentara éta, respon sejen mimiti percolate di dunya A&D. Dina saeutik reuwas ka Vega, jualan slabs 1 cm nyandak kaluar di pasar padumukan mana désainer sarta klien maranéhna luncat dina kasempetan pikeun ngasupkeun tembok fitur di pancuran, backsplashes slab pinuh sarta fireplaces nangtung seamless. (Anjeun tiasa ningali éta desain dina lookbook ieu.) Dina sapertilu tina beurat dawam 3 bahan cm aranjeunna kaayaan, fabricators euweuh megatkeun tonggong maranéhna pikeun otot slab pinuh nepi leuwih counter pikeun install backsplash a. Dina 10 kali kakuatan flexural, (hatur nuhun kana backing komposit polycarbonate na) musna éta salempang yén slabs berorientasi vertikal dina hawu bakal rengat on install.

Pasar padumukan éta onboard pikeun batu ipis.

Conto backsplash dijieun tina slab kontinyu ultra-ipis Bodas Cherokee marmer Amérika.

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.

Anu dikembangkeun nyaéta sistem anu lancar anu ngahémat waktos, tenaga kerja sareng artos: Éléd 1.

Ultra-ipis Amérika Hideung granit nembongan ngambang, dirojong ku Eclad 1 struktur halimunan.

Desain anyar ieu dumasar kana sistem grid aluminium dina kombinasi kalayan jangkar undercut napel dina tonggong panels 1 cm ngarah tetep concealed lamun ngagunakeun batu ipis misalna. The panels sadia nepi ka 9 suku ku 5 suku jeung beuratna ngan genep pon per suku pasagi rata-rata, sahingga prosés instalasi hiji tugas gampang.

Diajar langkung seueur ngeunaan sistem fasad batu

Anchors tetep disumputkeun pikeun beungeut unobstructed.

Pamasangan dina dua kali laju

Sistem lengkep nyadiakeun panels batu lightweight pre-dibor leuwih struktur cladding pelindung nu ngajadikeun sakali panels batu beurat gampang dipasang. Sistem cladding tradisional ngandelkeun batu kandel digabungkeun jeung keram bagong, Straps na klip. Kalawan Eclad 1 installers saukur dieunakeun slabs kana tempat na tilelep screws kana liang predrilled.

Conto skala leutik Eclad 1 sistem 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.”