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Travelodge's largest hotel has undergone a major development courtesy of Shakerley. The company teamed up with Dexter Moren Architects to work on the £60 million development which incorporates the Grade II listed Lowndes House and a new adjoining seven-storey building featuring Shackerley's contemporary ceramic granite ventilated rainscreen facades. The company said the facades were designed to 'reflect the rhythm of the historic building.' With that thought in mind, the facades were supplied in a natural textured finish to complement the original Portland stone frontage. For the project at Number 1 City Road, London, Shakerley provided all 750 rainscreen panels in bespoke sizes measuring up to 1500 x 1000mm, allowing the new facades to follow the styling of the Lowndes House. Each 30mm thick panel was supplied ready to install, with brackets affixed to the rear using a patented anchor system so that the contractor, Baris, could mechanically fix each slab securely.

To help service providers fulfill their responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act, the Shackerley Holdings Group is now offering a hard wearing range of specially profiled ceramic granite tactile floor tiles to alert the visually impaired to the presence of hazards such as staircases, ramps, platform edges and pedestrian crossings. Detailed specifications for the types of tactile paving (or 'Foot Braille') to be used in different situations have been developed by the Mobility and Inclusion Unit of the Department for Transport. Shackerley assisted in the establishment of these specifications supplying ceramic granite tiles for use in user trials. Shackerley's All Weather Tactile Tiles can be used, as the name suggests, inside and out. They are made from solid ceramic granite, which is ideal for this application being the most durable flooring material available. Shackerley's tactile tiles are further reinforced with through-body corundum, which is second only in hardness to diamond. This means that the precisely configured surface profiles are extremely resistance to wear and also offer anti-slip properties. 'Corduroy' (ridged) and 'blister' are the standard profiles offered and have been used over the London Underground.

Specified for an extension to the library at the University of East Anglia, Shackerley has installed over 350m of hardwearing buff coloured ceramic granite slabs from its Toscana range. Providing exterior fa?ades for the rear ventilated rainscreen alongside Western Cedar panels, the product was installed to give lasting protection and insulation for the six storey building. The company's Sureclad prefabricated stainless steel and aluminium substructure supplied the rainscreen support system to which ceramic granite panels have been mechanically fixed using the 'invisible' undercut anchors.

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Combining ceramic granite and Prodema high pressure laminate, a Shackerley Sureclad ventilated rainscreen cladding system has been used on the new Faculty of Health & Social Care building at Salford University. The external envelope features a variety of vertical elevations and fin walls with curvature of varied radii. An enclosed circular amenity space was also fully clad, introducing further setting out challenges for the company. In total 1700m� of ceramic granite panels were secured using the company's stainless steel undercut expanding anchor method. Some 1600m� of Prodema panels were also affixed to the same Sureclad substructure, with stainless steel and aluminim panels providing a third element in the cladding scheme.

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Retail outlets in Stratford Upon Avon?s biggest retail park, The Maybird Centre, have had their brickwork and rosemary tiled facades replaced with ceramic granite cladding from Shackerley Holdings. The polished blue-black ceramic cladding offers the appearance of marble, at a fraction of its thickness and weight.

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