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Shackerley
SureClad ® Style is
Here to Stay at Stansted
The use of Shackerley’s SureClad® ceramic granite
ventilated cladding system at the £27 million
Hampton by Hilton Hotel at Stansted Airport makes a
stylish design statement at the new 357 room hotel.
Director of the London office of Leach Rhodes Walker
and lead architect on the project, Alessio Venturi
explains: “We needed to differentiate the hotel from
the commercial functionality of the surrounding
airport buildings.
“The broad choice of façade colourways from
Shackerley helped us achieve that goal while SureClad®
ceramic granite’s inherent impermeability gave us the
robust finish we needed.”
The largest Hampton by Hilton in the UK, the new
Stansted hotel features Shackerley’s SureClad® ceramic
granite ventilated façade system in a variegated
grey/white colourway, with a natural finish that’s
sympathetic to local surroundings.
Alessio Venturi continues: “The building’s design has
been inspired by both its airport context and my own
heritage, drawing upon design influences from the
buildings of Rome’s EUR district.
“The use of SureClad® ceramic granite with white and
grey tones brings a little Italian flair and classic design
to Stansted.”
More than 10,000 panels were cut individually by
Shackerley to meet the specific requirements of the
building. They were supplied to site pre-drilled, with
fixing straps securely anchored to the rear as part of
the SureClad® installation-ready ventilated façade
system, with all prefabrication carried out off-site at
Shackerley’s ISO900l accredited production plant. The
company’s Queen’s Award winning SureClad® Access
system was used for the installation, facilitating rapid
and, in some instances, necessary non-sequential
panel installation.
The SureClad® ceramic granite façade has also been
instrumental in answering the practical needs of the
building’s location.
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A fully-vitrified material, Shackerley’s SureClad®
ceramic granite has virtually zero porosity, as defined
by BS EN14411. Panels are completely unaffected by
climatic extremes, conforming to all international
standards for freeze/thaw resistance, and they will
not fade, regardless of U/V exposure. The non-
combustible (Class 0) material also offers excellent
resistance to acids, alkalis and graffiti and does not
promote algae growth.
“The proximity of the hotel to the airport creates a
tough environment for the façade,” Alessio Venturi
adds, “with airborne pollutants that could cause
discolouration or degradation to many other façade
materials.
“We needed a solution that would carry through the
design intention of a timeless, classic look over a long
service life and Shackerley’s SureClad® system was the
ideal choice to meet those criteria. It looks fantastic on
the finished building.”