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Twickenham Stadium

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England’s home of Rugby has been given an impressive face lift with bespoke aluminium shingles and engineered ceramic granite rainscreen cladding materials supplied by EH Smith.


2,350m2 of interlocking cladding panels were manufactured from aluminium alloy 3005H45, 0.9mm – 1.2mm thickness with a precoated Aluquartz zinc brushed finish. These were all supplied to a tight site programme of works and installed whilst the stadium was still operative having a fully concealed clip / bracket fixing support system.


In addition to the shingles, EH Smith Facades supplied 500m2 of specialist Italian engineered ceramic granite cladding panels in three different formats; 6mm traditionally bonded, 12mm rainscreen panels on a secret fix aluminium support, and 6mm thick material incorporated into the spandrel panel of the curtain walling. All the ceramic panels were supplied with a Hytech impregnated coating which gives a self cleaning mechanism and air purification through a phototcatalytic reaction.


EH Smith in conjunction with our Engineering partners Systea worked closely with the cladding contractor Prater to provide a full static calculation and indicative setting out and fixing details for the structural aluminium support grid to provide a cost effective support solution for this unique cladding façade.


  • Project: Twickenham Stadium
  • Place: London
  • Country: UK
  • Building type: Sports + Culture + Recreation
  • Type of construction project: Renovation
  • Completion: 2018
  • SYSTEA wall bracket: Aluminium-L-Bracket
  • SYSTEA profile system: ALWI-V and UBE NG
  • Cladding material: Aluminum shingles and ceramic panels
  • Fastening: Concealed
  • Architect: KSS Design, London
  • Photos: EH Smith Specialist Facades


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Systea - Facade Support Systems (ALWI-S Profile)

Systea - Facade Support Systems (ALWI-S Profile)

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