Friars Walk Shopping Centre
Newport, South Wales
The new shopping and leisure scheme offers more than 36,230 square metres of retail and leisure space including a department store, multiplex, shops, restaurants, car park and bus station.
As a result of Friars Walk, Newport’s catchment has grown from 211,000 to 367,000 with an estimated footfall of 10-12 million per annum (Source: Javelin/DTZ). This will double retail sales in the city, adding £100 million per annum.
Specialist roofing and cladding contractor Metclad Ltd were employed by main contractor Bowmer & Kirkland to provide the roofing and cladding works.
Metclad collaborated with our technical team to ensure that the best fastener systems were used for the correct applications - for the flat roofing, efficient thermally broken systems were used so that the construction met all the regulatory standards.
When it came to the facade work, the main fasteners supplied were designed to be aesthetically pleasing: our DrillFast lacquered range, used for all the coloured facades where the fasteners were in any way visible.
Where there was a need to have panels fixed back without showing any fixings at all, then the specialist SikaTack adhesive system was utilised.
