Shackerley’s ceramic granite meets conservation area requirements

Latest News Wed, Sep 14, 2016 11:36 AM

800m2 of Shackerley’s SureClad® ceramic granite cladding has been used to refurbish a prestigious seven-storey office block in Birmingham, overcoming planning sensitivities in a conservation area. Ceramic granite, a high performance façade material with almost zero porosity, has helped to provide a new protective outer envelope whilst maintaining the building’s original natural travertine stone appearance.


43 Temple Row is located in the Colmore Business District, Birmingham’s main commercial hub and part of an important conservation area renowned for the quality and diversity of its architecture. The offices were built in 1980 to a contemporary style with quarried travertine and granite façades. The original travertine had weathered significantly and water ingress had damaged the building’s concrete frame and caused panel fixings to become badly corroded. Cost effective long lasting replacement cladding was required. Whilst new quarried stone panels had been ruled out due to their porous nature, Birmingham City Council’s planners were keen to ensure that any replacement solution matched the original look of the travertine.

Cladding specialist Shackerley proposed ceramic granite, a fully vitrified, engineered construction material, made entirely of natural constituents, that can be produced to emulate quarried granite, limestone and marble. Strong, hard and impervious, it offers a low maintenance solution, another important consideration for busy city centre locations. Shackerley supplied façade panels in a ‘travertine’ style and colourway that was virtually indistinguishable from the original stone, replicating the visual contrast with the quarried granite that was being retained.

The ceramic granite cladding was installed by Task Contractors Ltd using Shackerley’s SureClad® Access system, chosen for its speed and flexibility of installation and unique facility to install panels non-sequentially. The entire system was prefabricated off site at the manufacturer’s ISO 9001 quality controlled factory in Lancashire.

For further details please contact Shackerley on 0800 783 0391 or visit www.shackerley.com

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