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.”
“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.
Shunday qilib, Polycor jamoasi rivojlanishga qaytdi.
Ayni paytda, A&D dunyosida yana bir javob tarqala boshladi. Vega uchun bir oz ajablanib, 1 sm plitalar savdosi turar-joy bozorida boshlandi, u erda dizaynerlar va ularning mijozlari dush, to'liq plitalarning orqa tomoni va choksiz vertikal kaminlarda devor devorlarini birlashtirish imkoniyatiga ega bo'lishdi. (Ushbu dizaynlarni ushbu kitobda ko'rishingiz mumkin.) O'zlari ishlayotgan odatdagi 3 sm materialning og'irligining uchdan birida, ishlab chiqaruvchilar endi orqa tomonni o'rnatish uchun peshtaxta ustidagi to'liq plitani orqa mushaklariga sindirishmadi. Kamin ustidagi vertikal yo'naltirilgan plitalar o'rnatish paytida yorilib ketishidan xavotirlanish 10 baravar ko'proq egiluvchanlik kuchi (polikarbonat kompozit tayanchi tufayli) yo'qoldi.
Turar-joy bozorida yupqa toshlar bor edi.

Uzluksiz o'ta yupqa plitadan ishlab chiqarilgan backsplash misoli Oq Cherokee Amerika marmar.
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 quvnoq 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.
Ular ishlab chiqqan narsa - bu vaqt, mehnat va pulni tejaydigan uzluksiz tizim: Eklad 1.

Ultra yupqa Amerika qora graniti ko'rinmas Eclad 1 tuzilishi tomonidan qo'llab-quvvatlanadigan suzuvchi ko'rinadi.
Yangi dizayn alyuminiy panjara tizimiga asoslangan bo'lib, ular 1 sm panellarning orqa tomoniga biriktirilgan pastki kesilgan langarlar bilan birgalikda shunday ingichka toshdan foydalanganda yashirin bo'lib qoladi. Panellar 9 futdan 5 futgacha mavjud va o'rtacha kvadrat fut uchun atigi olti funtni tashkil etadi, bu esa o'rnatish jarayonini osonlashtiradi.
TOSH FASAD TIZIMLARI HAQIDA KO'PROQ MA'LUMOT OLING

Ankrajlar to'siqsiz sirt uchun yashirin bo'lib qoladi.
To'liq tizim bir marta og'ir tosh panellarni o'rnatishni osonlashtiradigan himoya qoplamali struktura ustiga oldindan burg'ulangan engil tosh panellarni taqdim etadi. An'anaviy qoplama tizimlari og'ir kramplar, kayışlar va kliplar bilan birlashtirilgan qalin toshga tayanadi. Eclad 1 o'rnatuvchilari bilan oddiygina plitalarni joyiga qo'ying va vintlarni oldindan burg'ulangan teshiklarga cho'ktiring.

Kichik o'lchamli Eclad 1 tizimining maketi misoli.
“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.”