Rockpanel
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Rockpanel - Releasing the natural power of stone
As part of the ROCKWOOL group we have one clear goal. Releasing the natural power of stone to enrich modern living. We release the natural power of stone by creating innovative facade panels, resistant to the toughest conditions and deliver an aesthetic product that provides a positive influence on our environment. We want to make stone come alive in all its surfaces. We give you the freedom to explore the boundaries of your wildest design dreams. So, if you can imagine it, you can build it.
Facades made from basalt:
The starting point of our facade panelling is the natural raw material from which it is made: basalt. This volcanic rock forms the basis of our stone wool facade panels, making our product a unique, sustainable and durable material. Naturally fire safe, our panels meet the strictest requirements for structural fire safety and offer optimum protection for people and the environment.
Naturally protected from the elements:
A ventilated facade is a facade construction with an air gap between the insulation and the facade cladding. This gap allows natural ventilation of the facade and can act as a raincoat, protecting the building from wind and rain while at the same time providing a healthy indoor climate. Ventilated facades counterbalance the effects of moisture and help stabilise temperatures both inside and outside, helping to lower energy costs in all seasons.
Benefits of Rockpanel:
- Fire Safety: A2 non-combustible: Everything you need to know about fire safe facade cladding
- Sustainability: At Rockpanel, we transform volcanic rock into facade cladding. Our products are safe and sustainable, look beautiful, and create inspiring and safe surroundings for people and communities to live, learn, work and play.
- Rockpanel - Ease of use: Using Rockpanel facade cladding boards saves you time and maintenance costs. It starts with preparing the boards for installation.
- Durability: Aesthetics, safety and durability combined: Rockpanel is ready for the future.
- Freedom of design with Rockpanel: At Rockpanel, the ethos of design freedom is at the heart of our product. To offer you a material that inspires you to bring your cladding design to a new level and deliver a true reflection of your creative vision- helping you to reimagine architecture.
Main Product Ranges:
Rockpanel Design facades -Explore shapes and colours freely
In the Rockpanel Design facade segment you find products which can give your project any possible shape and colour combination. With an extended colour scheme and easy to bend boards you can give each building an expressive character and its own, unique identity.
- Rockpanel Colours: Imagine the freedom of choosing any colour you like from an artist’s palette and then painting your building in the perfect tone of your choice. That’s the choice you have with the Rockpanel Colours range.
- Rockpanel Metals: The age of the industrial revolution is long gone, but the style still remains. More popular than ever, even residential buildings are opting for this hard working industrial look. Give your building extra shine and lustre with the contemporary and industrial finish of Rockpanel Metals. View product
- Rockpanel Chameleon: Take a look from ever angle, it’s never the same twice – that’s the power of the ever changing Rockpanel Chameleon cladding board. Affected by natural light or artistic spots and the angle and height viewed – your vision becomes an eye catcher, ever changing and always inspiring.
Nature Facades - Play around with natural surfaces & designs
With the products in the Rockpanel Nature Segment you can perfectly implement the organic aspect of nature in your creation. As a result, your building will become one with its surrounding.
- Rockpanel Woods: Wood has been used for millennia to create beautiful buildings, but those with a wooden façade need regular maintenance and have a limited life before the costly expense of removal and renewal. Then stone came along, but it lacked the natural warmth that only wood could achieve. That is until Rockpanel Woods was invented. Through an innovative process the boards are almost perfect replicas of wood, with all of the long lasting benefits inherent in a stone façade. Simply put, the best of both worlds.
- Rockpanel Stones: Since visionary architecture has always disregarded limitations – why not challenge nature itself? With Rockpanel Stones, gravity appears to have been outsmarted. Let yourself be inspired by the astonishing characteristics of this natural material and incorporate the impressive versatility of Rockpanel Stones in your creative planning.
Rockpanel Premium Facades - Make a unique statement
With Rockpanel Premium you can create impressive facades, which are unique and representative. If you don’t want to compromise on the design and detail of your project, Rockpanel premium facades are the right choice for you. Find the right facade solutions – without limits.
- Rockpanel Premium: Impressively transform buildings into representative symbols that visually express the success of your business. The best materials, open-ended design solutions as well as customised formats and dimensions give your building project an absolute premium look. Naturally, they always meet the particularly high requirements for fire protection A2-s1,d0.
Further Technical information is available to download from the BPi PDF library or from the manufacturers own web site.
Rationalisation of the Rockpanel Offering in the UK
As of January 1, 2024, we are simplifying the range of products available in the UK. Therefore, only our 9mm and 11mm A2, s1-d0, non-combustible product ranges will be available from January 1, 2024. If you have any orders pending for the products no longer available or require any specification or technical support in regards to these changes, please contact your Rockpanel Area Sales Manager, who will be able to assist you further.
If you have any further queries, please contact your local Area Sales Manager.
Rainbow Rockpanel colours at new North Wales primary school
Award-winning Wynne Construction were appointed main contractor by Anglesey County Council for the new Ysgol Corn Hir school, which is situated on the outskirts of Llangefni, North Wales. The new £10m development, part funded by the Welsh Government through the Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme, will provide bilingual education for up to 270 children aged between four and eleven.
Offering the latest facilities and resources, including modern and well equipped classrooms and outdoor areas suitable for play and learning, the school is constructed to BREEAM Excellent standards and is a very energy efficient building, which, among many other energy saving measures, features photovoltaic panels and air source heat pumps.
Lovelock Mitchell Architects were design lead. Senior Associate, Peter Fisk, explained the decision to specify Rockpanel, “The material palette for the Ysgol Corn Hir project has been selected for its robustness, modularity, and complimentary aesthetics. Notably, Rockpanel's diverse colour spectrum permitted us to select a set of natural, but vibrant hues for the early years facade that created a playful juxtaposition with the natural rhythms of the slate and timber elements to the main hall and entrance areas of the building, while maintaining an overall aesthetic befitting the building’s rural context.”
The school really makes a visual statement and radiates a feeling of positivity, clad in vertical columns of varying widths using a selection of RAL-matched bright green, yellow, orange, medium and light teal. The bands of colour run floor to roof of the main single storey structure, in line with contemporary grey framed windows and entrances. Then Rockpanel, predominantly in the bright green, is used to great effect above a full height, pillared portico and for an ajoining wing of the school as vertical pillars under a deep horizontal canopy, with additional sections clad in the other colours from the palette listed earlier.
Design and technical support always on-hand
Roofing and cladding specialists, Kynaston Contracts, were responsible for the installation of Rockpanel facades at Ysgol Corn Hir. Kynaston Project Coordinator, Emlyn Williams, “We were appointed the roofing and cladding contractor on this great looking new school in Llangefni where amongst other things we installed Rockpanel to the exterior elevations. John Porter was very helpful in aiding the design team, in particular when it came to the fixing calculations and recommendations on the project. Given the opportunity we would welcome using the product and working with John again.”
Rockpanel's John Porter, “This was a great project which really shows what can be achieved with the intelligent use of colour. In addition to virtually endless colour match possibilities, the scope of surface finishes offered by Rockpanel includes Natural Woods, Metals, Stones, and our unique iridescent Chameleon. In the architecture of the future, natural, recyclable products like Rockpanel will be indispensable.”
The external facade for all seasons and all reasons
Rockpanel facades panels are made from a core of naturally occurring, non-combustible volcanic rock – stone wool – embodying them with superior durability and fire resilience, making them virtually maintenance-free and insensitive to moisture and temperature changes. That means they will stay looking as good as the day they were installed, throughout their long life.
Rockpanel is light and easy to work with, saving installation time and money. It is often delivered precision cut but can also be adjusted on site using simple tools. It is able to play it’s role in helping ensure efficiency in terms of sustainability as the stone wool from which it is made, is naturally replenishing and the panels themselves are made from a high percenatage of industry waste materiels which might otherwise end up in landfill. Then, once it has reached the end of its useful life (proven to be at least 50 years), it can be disassembled and made in to new stone wool products with no losss of quality.
*Disclaimer: Due to changes in our assortment, it is possible that the designs shown in this case study are no longer available. Feel free to contact us in case of doubt.