Mineral ceiling tiles by
leading UK manufacturer Zentia have played an instrumental part in the
redevelopment of Glasgow's historic Grade A listed Custom House.
Some 3,500m2 of Zentia's
Ultima+ range features in the public circulation and corridor areas of both the
Clayton hotel and the Adagio aparthotel built by main contractor McAleer Rushe as
part of the £52 million landmark restoration scheme which opened in November
2022.
It was the first time
architects Leach Rhodes Walker had worked with Zentia products.
Steven Allcock, senior project
leader at LRW, said: "The scheme was challenging in several ways. Firstly,
we had to deal with the existing listed building and incorporate it within the
overall scheme. Then there were the acoustics.
“With it being located next to
a railway line, the building had to be designed to be isolated to avoid sound transference
throughout the structure. And then there was movement tolerance of +/- 50mm in
two directions and +/- 25mm in the opposite two directions."
Ultima+ tegular-edged mineral
ceiling tiles were fixed on a Prelude 24 TLS grid by specialist sub-contractors
CCL Interiors.
Manufactured with up to 64%
recycled content and up to 100% recyclable, the Ultima+ range is available in
three core densities that allow specifiers to engineer sound absorption and
attenuation for optimum and balanced acoustic performance.
CCL director Ross McGonigle
said: "The Ultima+ product provided a smooth, finely-textured, clean white
finish, adding brightness to the corridors whilst providing good sound
absorption to the public circulation areas."
The distributor was SIG (Eurocentral).
