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Zentia ceilings help give Custom House a new lease of life

Zentia’s acoustic ceilings star in a Glasgow landmark.

 

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).

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Armstrong Ceiling Solutions launches new website

Site designed to reflect offer of “the best products, value and service” at a click of a button.

Armstrong Ceiling Solutions has relaunched its website to better reflect its leading range of mineral fibre ceiling and suspension systems.

The site’s intuitive design makes finding inspiration, specification and installation resources faster and easier than ever before, and for those who like to browse on the go, it seamlessly adapts to mobile phones and tablets while maintaining a user-friendly experience.

The new website advises specifiers and installers on ceiling solutions that transform interiors by highlighting what’s new with the company in terms of products, professional development and services such as Armstrong’s newly-simplified ceiling recycling programme which continues to help contractors, and the environment, by diverting old tiles from landfill.

With clear precision, users are guided through Armstrong’s market-leading portfolio of mineral ceiling tiles, floating ceilings and suspension systems that have been built up over 150 years, including products with which Armstrong became the first European mineral ceiling tile manufacturer to achieve Cradle to Cradle™ status.

Visitors to the site can accurately match ceiling space requirements to a full system solution for their next project with ease by browsing products by segment and/or special application, for example anti-bacterial solutions for healthcare environments or systems for spaces with high humidity levels such as swimming pools and commercial kitchens.

Additionally, products can be searched by performance criteria such as acoustics, light reflectance, humidity and VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) emissions, all of which contribute to building users’ well-being.

Users can access technical documentation and resources including data sheets, installation and warranty files, CAD drawings and BIM objects through the ‘Technical Library’ and get added inspiration from the latest images, videos and case studies in the ‘Project Gallery’ area.

The new website also makes it super-easy for users to order samples, contact a technical expert and stay up to date with all the latest developments by subscribing to a newsletter or opening a ‘My Armstrong’ account as well as staying connected on social*.

Users can easily find a member of Armstrong’s nationwide Omega network of specialist ceiling installers or even their nearest approved distributor branch through an improved online map search function which insightfully reveals their most local contacts.

Armstrong Ceiling Solutions is proud to be one of the true pioneers in the design and manufacture of world-class mineral ceiling and suspension systems and its new website is designed to reflect its mission statement “To offer customers the best products, the best value and the very best service possible,”

For a more in-depth look at the new website, go to https://www.armstrongceilingsolutions.co.uk.

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