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Pre-coated Aluminium A COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE Simon Gregory, Sales Director at Proteus Facades, explains why he feels offering pre-coated aluminium rainscreen cladding can offer real benefits for installers. In recent years, rainscreen cladding systems have evolved to a stage where they now provide architects and designers with the freedom to create truly eye-catching structures. Most of these advances have centred on how aluminium is presented, such as pre-coat aluminium, which is where the material is coilcoated with a tough, flexible paint system. What really makes pre-coated aluminium popular with architects and designers is that it is suited to larger building facades where it provides a value engineered solution and striking aesthetics. It is for this reason that a growing number of installers are adding it to their portfolio. Pre-coated aluminium is available in a wide range of colours (in addition to any RAL or BS colour), finishes and textures, which elevates it above ‘flat’ finishes such as PPC. It is this characteristic that allows the creation of similar aesthetics to materials such as stainless steel, anodised aluminium, copper, zinc and brass. That’s because pre-coating aluminium offers “Offering pre-coated aluminium rainscreen cladding can give contractors a real commercial” advantage” much more scope, with the ability to recreate a wide range of metallic finishes to give the façade a cutting-edge futuristic look. Manufacturers of pre-coated aluminium have extended the range and offering to include metallic, coloured, woodgrained and textured finishes. These are suitable for use as rainscreen cladding, flashings, fascias, rooflines and other metal fabrications. Advances in the quality of pre-coating ensures a uniform paint layer and consistent colour. And, because pre-coated aluminium can be bought in large quantities and with a consistent finish it minimises shade variation between panels. However, you have to factor in that pre coated aluminium does have a fairly high minimum order quantity for a single order, which is why for smaller quantities, a PPC finish is the only method commercially available. PPC finishes tend to work best if you are looking for solid, flat colours, meaning it is fairly limited when you need something slightly different. An electrifying facade These benefits mean that offering pre-coated aluminium rainscreen cladding can give contractors a real commercial advantage. Take the new European IT headquarters for global electrical wholesaler, City Electrical Factors (CEF), for example (see below). Architects FaulknerBrowns designed the £10m Data, IT and Marketing headquarters based just outside of Durham, using a pre-coat aluminium façade, along with a variety of other materials including copper and ceramic, which represent the components found within an electrical cable, CEF’s staple product. The brief set for the design of the RIBA award 70 TC SEPTEMBER <strong>2019</strong>
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