Thermal Efficient Composite Cladding

At McVeigh Insulations our focus on cladding has been on composites. Once viewed as being expensive and difficult to handle, the new thermal efficient composite panel  provides a more much economic and efficient solution through greater insulation requirements.

We purchase composites from all the leading manufactures in the UK and across Europe. Panels are installed using the latest mechanical handling technology ensuring manual lifting is kept to a minimum.

We have a fully equipped fabrication workshop and storage warehouse which is used to make and store flashings and ancillary materials. The use of this facility provides us with the flexibility to respond quickly to our customer needs.

In the year 2000 McVeigh Insulations were awarded the contract to supply and install the composite cladding panels forming the external envelope at Tesco Pengam Green, Cardiff. All the cladding interface details were developed to ensure air leakage is kept below the stringent Tesco specification of 3m3/hr/m2. Internal fire walls to the store were also installed using rockwool core composite panels.

The external cladding panels, horizontally laid, were fixed directly back to the steel columns without the need for secondary cladding rails. The 125mm thick panels typically span 6000mm, provide a 1hr fire rating to a boundary condition and comply with current thermal requirements of the building regulations.

Following the successful completion of the Cardiff store McVeigh Insulations have been selected as a Tesco Partnering Contractor and subsequently completed over 150 new stores and extensions nationwide.