MBH PLC is pleased to announce its partnership with Aquarian Cladding Systems Ltd as sole providers of UK stock bricks to be used in the company’s Gebrik Insulating Brick Cladding System.
Gebrik, invented in Belgium in 1982, is an excellent brick cladding solution for either over-cladding existing buildings to improve their appearance, thermal performance and durability, or for use on new buildings to improve programme, reduce site storage and scaffold requirements and to minimise construction costs associated with supporting brickwork at height. Available in a range of brick sizes, the brick slips are cast in polyurethane under factory controlled conditions to create approx 1m² prefabricated, composite sheets, which can be mechanically fixed to masonry, timber or steel frame substrates on site.
The partnership between MBH and Aquarian Cladding brings a range of stock brick finishes to the Gebrik range, all carefully selected for their superior quality, appearance and technical specification. The extensive choice of finishes now includes First Quality, Selected Dark and Danehill Yellow Facings from Freshfield Lane, and Hampshire Red, Sussex Red and Victorian Red handmade bricks from Charnwood. The combination of MBH’s products and arguably the best tested and most cost-effective brick cladding system in Europe delivers a traditional, high quality finish to brick facades in an innovative system that is easy and fast to install and provides excellent energy efficiency.
Aquarian Cladding Systems Ltd is the exclusive UK distributor of the Gebrik system and has been providing technical, commercial and installation support to architects, contractors and specialist installation contractors since 2007. During this time Gebrik has been used to refurbish ageing housing stock and school estates, in addition to cladding new buildings, such as leisure centres, academies, student accommodation and of course, new housing. Aquarian has also worked with off-site volumetric building manufacturers and unitised curtain walling specialists.
Gebrik is BBA certified and has been successfully tested to the stringent CWCT and BRE standards ensuring it satisfies building insurers and local building control officers alike.
Gebrik will:
- Improve build quality
- Reduce a traditional brickwork programme
- Reduce wall thickness
- Improve thermal performance
- Reduce the facade loadings on foundations and frames
- Minimise site storage and deliveries
- Eliminate the requirement for scaffold
- Reduce the dependence on good weather
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