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After an international colour workshop involving architects from the UK, France and Germany, Marley Eternit has launched a Natura range of fibre cement decorative cladding panels. In contrast with the Natura Plus range which features the same colour throughout, the new Natura range includes nine colours that are available as a varnish on a lightweight Anthacite (dark grey) core and a further five varnish colours on a natural grey core. UK architects Cany Ash and Robert Sakula from Ash Sakula Architects in London met with Konrad Wohlhage from Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten in Berlin and David Trottin from Peripheriques Architectes in Paris for the workshop. Together they analysed Marley Eternit's cladding colour range and those available from sister companies in Europe. The architects expressed a preference for shades of the more natural colours even when a range contained bold primary colours. They suggested strengthening the natural identity of the fibre cement substrate by using colour varnishes on the base material. This recommendation was taken on board and the result is the Natura colours range.

The most northerly superstore of one of the UK's leading outdoor and winter sports specialists now has its own protection against the vagaries of the English climate - thanks to Marley Eternit. The company has just supplied its highly rated fibre cement Weatherboard to the Snow+Rock retail store in Gateshead's Metro Park. Building Products magazine is told the effect is that the Weatherboard is virtually indistinguishable from real timber. It has brought a clean appearance to the facade of the 7,000ft² store.

Pure Cladding is the name of the recently launched cladding design guide from Marley Eternit. The guide focuses on the design, detailing and specification of the company's decorative rainscreen cladding systems. Out goes the manufacturer's range of high performance building boards - they now have their own guide and in comes its range of fibre cement profiled sheets, plain tiles and slates to complement the cladding panels. The guide is said to advise architects, specifiers and contractors on the applications for each of the decorative cladding options as well as technical data, colours and aesthetics. Help on how to avoid wastage is also given.

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Held later this month at Earls Court, 100% Detail will be the launch-pad for a range of fibre cement decorative rainscreen cladding panels from Marley Eternit. Instead of featuring the same colour throughout as the Natura Plus range does, the Natura range comprises nine colours available as a varnish on lightweight dark grey core and a further five varnish colours on a light grey core.

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Fibre cement cladding panels from Marley Eternit helped architects Nightingale Associates meet the brief tio provide a day surgery unit in the shortest time possible. The lightweight Natura Plus through-coloured rainscreen panels in Anthracite were specified to clad, in an outsized planking effect, the whole of the 1,150m² site at Singleton hospital for Swansea NHS Trust. Richard Golledge of Nightingale Associates said: 'Anthracite was used because the backdrop of the building had a band of trees on the site boundary and dark grey actually helps the building recede into this green backdrop.' This approach, coupled with a partnering contract that brought the design team, contractor and client together at an early stage, ensured that the volumetric off-site units delivered and erected in just five days, with the whole project from inception to completion, took less than twelve months.

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Two types of fibre cement rainscreen cladding panels from Marley Eternit met a host of performance criteria for the award-winning development of a derelict 1960s Government office building in a rundown area of Glasgow. The manufacturer's Multiclad and Glasal panels, both in grey were specified for their light weight because the design involved stripping the building back to its concrete frame and erecting two steel bracing towers to allow the backbone of concrete cores to be demolished.

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BBA certification has been awarded to Marley Eternit's range of fibre cement rainscreen cladding panels. The accreditation encompasses the manufacturer's through-colour Natura, which is available in 24 standard colours, granular-finish Pelicolor in 17 standard colours or any factory-approved RAL colour, Weatherboard, autoclaved Multiclad, and mineral enamelled Glasal. Fire resistance to Building Regulations Class O has also been achieved by the products.

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Refurbishment of a church hall in Scotland has included the installation of black fibre cement cladding panels from Marley Eternit. The Pelicolour panels wrap the exterior and 100m of them were fixed over the brick elevations onto a treated softwood frame. Black was chosen as it was neutral with no assocation in the local physical context.

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Cladding panels from Marley Eternit have been applied at a new Holiday Inn hotel in Brentford, London. The 8mm Lamina External panels have been routed along the grain of the wood-style laminate to provide a mock joint/strip appearance. As well as forming a rainscreen cladding system, it also has been used as insulating panels within a glazing system. Working with the company's technical department, the architect's head of technical services designed a bespoke fixing system that combined structural adhesive with mechanical rivet fixings.

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Fibre cement cladding from Marley Eternit has been applied to Clydebank's riverside regeneration. Some three colours have been used on the project with 1000m? of the company's Multiclad panels supplied in Terra Brown, Pastel Blue and Copper Brown. The ?2.8 million JKS Workshops/phase 1 development comprises the provision of 1700m? of small industrial premises. Each single storey module is wrapped individually with the company's cladding in a standard RAL colour acrylic paint factory finish. An ornamental pattern was screen-printed onto the panels with an anti-graffiti coating. High level elements are clad in translucent polycarbonate for natural daylight.

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Fire resistant Weatherboard from Marley Eternit has assisted architects in a fire engineered solution for a timber and steel-framed mixed use apartment block. Manufactured to give the appearance of sawn cedar, it is a low maintenance alternative that is resistant to rot and vermin as well as fire - Class 0 and EN 13501-1. It was installed with fibre cement Eterspan corners.

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Some four colours and two types of cladding from Marley Eternit have been used externally and internally to transform a former NCP car park into an apartment development. The company's Lamina External high pressure laminate cladding panels in pastel grey and saffron have been used externally with white and pastel grey inside. White panels of the company's Reynobond aluminium composite cladding have also been used internally.

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Through-coloured sheets from Marley Eternit's Natura range have expanded five fold, as part of the company's focus on fibre cement cladding panels. The range was originally launched in three colours - Ivory, Grey and Anthracite - with Terracotta added later. Now Swiss Pearl technology, which enables a wider choice of colours, has allowed the Natura range to be extended, with a further 20 'Natura Plus' colours. The panels can be fixed to timber or aluminium sub frames on commercial or residential projects. Available in 8mm or 12mm thicknesses and 2500mm or 3000mm lengths, they are resistant to weather, mould growth and fungi.

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Fibre cement rainscreen cladding panels from Marley Eternit have assisted in changing a derelict cinema into a modern apartment block in Islington, London. The building utilised the fast-track composite construction method - the structure being steel frame with pre-cast concrete floors. The external walls are pre-fabricated steel frame units that are clad on site with 1000m? of the company's 8mm Natura panels. A monolithic block surrounds the site's boundaries and is clad in continuous dark grey boarding from the company's Anthracite Natura panels range. Window openings and recessed balconies with coloured linings are also featured on the fa?ade with Ivory Natura panels cladding a rear courtyard area.

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Five metallic colours have been added by Eternit to its range of high-pressure laminate rainscreen cladding panels. This extension brings the total number of the range to 66. All are coloured on both sides and are suitable for applications ranging from over-cladding, fascias and soffits to composite, infill and balcony panels. They are resistant to impact damage and designed to be easy to cut and fix.

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