Ufungaji wa Mawe katika Nusu ya Jiwe la Wakati

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.”

Rangi za Mawe ya Mraba Asili za Mawe ya Mraba

“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.

Kwa hivyo timu ya Polycor inarudi kwenye maendeleo.

Wakati huo huo, mwitikio mwingine ulianza kuenea katika ulimwengu wa A&D. Kwa mshangao kidogo kwa Vega, mauzo ya slabs 1 cm ilianza katika soko la makazi ambapo wabunifu na wateja wao walipata fursa ya kuingiza kuta za sehemu katika kuoga, slab kamili za nyuma na fireplaces imefumwa wima. (Unaweza kuona miundo hiyo katika kijitabu hiki cha kuangalia.) Katika theluthi moja ya uzito wa nyenzo za kawaida za 3 cm walizokuwa wakishughulikia, watengenezaji hawakuwa wakivunja migongo yao tena kwa misuli slab kamili juu ya kaunta ili kusakinisha backsplash. Kwa mara 10 ya nguvu ya kunyumbulika, (shukrani kwa usaidizi wake wa mchanganyiko wa polycarbonate) ilitoweka ilikuwa wasiwasi kwamba slabs zilizoelekezwa wima kwenye mahali pa moto zinaweza kupasuka wakati wa kusakinishwa.

Soko la makazi lilikuwa ndani ya jiwe nyembamba.

Mfano wa backsplash iliyotengenezwa kutoka kwa slab inayoendelea ya ultra-thin Marumaru nyeupe ya Cherokee ya Amerika.

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.

Walichoanzisha ni mfumo usio na mshono ambao unaokoa wakati, kazi na pesa: Eclad 1.

Nyembamba sana Granite Nyeusi ya Amerika inaonekana kuelea, ikiungwa mkono na muundo wa Eclad 1 usioonekana.

Muundo mpya unategemea mfumo wa gridi ya alumini pamoja na nanga zilizopunguzwa nyuma ya paneli za 1 cm ili zibaki kufichwa wakati wa kutumia jiwe nyembamba kama hilo. Paneli zinapatikana hadi futi 9 kwa futi 5 na zina uzito wa pauni sita tu kwa kila futi ya mraba kwa wastani, na kufanya mchakato wa usakinishaji kuwa kazi rahisi.

JIFUNZE ZAIDI KUHUSU MIFUMO YA FACADE YA MAWE

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Ufungaji kwa kasi mara mbili

Mfumo kamili hutoa paneli za mawe nyepesi zilizochimbwa hapo awali juu ya muundo wa kufunika wa kinga ambao hurahisisha kufunga paneli za mawe nzito mara moja. Mifumo ya kitamaduni ya kufunika hutegemea mawe mazito pamoja na mikanda, mikanda na klipu. Ukiwa na visakinishi vya Eclad 1 weka slabs mahali pake na skurubu za kuzama kwenye mashimo yaliyotobolewa.

Mfano wa mfumo mdogo wa Eclad 1 unadhihaki.

“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.”