Lightweight fibre cement decorative cladding from Marley Eternit has helped Artlab Architects win an award for their collegiate hub and flexible learning centre in Kent.
Marley Eternit's Natura panels, which are low maintenance and Class 0 resistant to fire, were used in a planking effect of varying depths on the curved facade and on a battered wall at New Brompton College in Gillingham. .
A traditional clay plain tile from Marley Eternit has proved to be the solution in a project to restore the roof a 15th century building after it was found that the mortar on the original tiles had deteriorated making them unable to be used again.
Site agent Jed Morris said: 'Restoring the roof on a listed building is always a challenge. Fortunately as well as being very quick and easy to fit Marley Eternit's range of clay tiles was carefully chosen as a match to the original handmade clay tiles.'
The owners are said to have been delighted.
Fibre cement Weatherboard from Marley Eternit has been applied to a Persimmion Homes' development on the South Coast. It was specified in three low-maintenance colours ? blue/grey, grey, and ivory ? to clad the elevations of over 1000 homes at Cherque Farm in Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire.
Restored to its original colour, a Corinthian arch in Stowe has been treated with White Peak limewash from Buxton Lime.
Limewash paint provides an inexpensive coating which as it ages develops a patina and allows the building fabric to breathe. Available in 25 colours, pale ochre was used in Stowe to create a translucent effect.