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Lace designs that helped establish a world famous industry in the heart of Nottingham have been set in concrete as part of an iconic, multi-million pounds art centre. The project was a major challenge for Trent Concrete which used its precast experience to reproduce a lace pattern in the reconstructed stone cladding being manufactured for the Centre of Contemporary Arts Nottingham. The design is based on a sample of Victorian lace found in a time capsule unearthed when a supermarket was being built. The pattern was given to design specialists at Derby University, who used lasers to replicate the exact pattern on a piece of timber. This was transferred onto a durable rubber mat. .

Claimed to be state-of-the-art architectural stone cladding, designed and manufactured off-site by Trent Concrete is taking pride of place at the impressive new Barton Square development Manchester's £70 million Trafford Centre The bespoke pre-cast concrete cladding is said to be bringing the cluster of buildings at Barton Square to life - giving them a classical appearance and 'delivering innate strength and durability.' The development comprises four 'L' shaped blocks that form a central square, mall and colonnade. Trent's reconstructed stone cladding is tailor-made to the architects and client's specifications, as part of a £6.4 million contract. Working to architectural drawings, the design concept was turned into reality and the result is a series commanding buff coloured pilasters up to eight metres high, with accompanying cornice units, band course and plinth. Each unit, some weighing up to 24 tonnes, is handcrafted at Trent's Nottingham-based plant. They are cast in a buff reconstructured stone mix, with acid etched finish. Shop fronts inside the Barton Square mall will feature double part, brick faced pilaster/cornice units and support beams, while the colonnade will be formed out of seven metre high, tapered columns

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Reconstructed stone cladding from Trent Concrete has been supplied for Tradewinds, a luxury apartment complex in Gibraltar. Specified for its aesthetic qualities and for speed of construction, 2861m? of white reconstructed stone cladding in 520 units was applied for the ?864million contract. The storey-high panelsfeature across all elevations and were specified to provide visual 'weight' to the building.

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Some 1040m? of wall panels faced with Portland Stone have been supplied by Trent Concrete for a residential development on the site of the former Westminster Theatre in Palace Street, London. The units are all one-off sizes to fit the architect's design intent. Portland Stone was a planning requirement, dictated by the need to match adjacent buildings.

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Cladding at an apartment development in Sheffield is to be provided by Trent Concrete. The contract includes 625m? storey-height wall panels in spandrel and mullion format to the flank walls at the end of the 13 storey building, 600m storey high column facings, and 1630m of horizontal fascia bands running in front of floor slabs and balcony edges. All the units are cast in a white acid-etched reconstructed stone to resemble Portland Stone and combine with the other fa?ade elements of glass and curtain walling. In a separate contract last year, the company provided 12 structural feature columns in the same finish for incorporation into the main structure of the building.

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Following on from work when it was first built, Trent Concrete has been specified for a new portico entrance at the Trafford Centre in Manchester. The portico will form the new main entrance to the Trafford Centre, once the original colonnade is enclosed and integrated. The company's ?411,000 contract covers four sets of double columns and four single columns, each measuring 1300mm in diameter and 6.4m high, with a 1220mm deep cornice running between the columns. The columns are in buff reconstructed stone with terracotta rings, to match the existing colonnade. The company's package also includes a flat hollow core concrete roof and domed roof.

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Some 1250m? of brick faced cladding from Trent Concrete is being employed for the fa?ade of a sevenstorey office development at Grosvenor Street in London. The bricks, Coleford Buff, have been specified to complement surrounding buildings and satisfy Westminster Council's requirements for hand made brick in the Mayfair conservation area. The units are typically 3.7m high and 6m long.

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283Cobbetts House, home to law firm Cobbetts in Manchester, has been clad using cladding from Trent Concrete. Some 2,500m² of white acid-etched reconstructed stone cladding has been employed. The units include spandrel panels, typically 5.26m long by 1m high, wall panels 1.9m wide and 3.8m high, Ushaped column casings and plant room fascia panels.

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