The Rock, Bury
Address: The Rock
Derby Street
Bury
BL9 0NJ
Bury
BL9 0NJ
Architect: Building Design Partnership
Main Contractor: Longworth Building Services
Product Used & Volume: Western Red Cedar Cladding - 4,000m˛
Completion Date: July 2010
Project Information:
Western Red Cedar cladding has been supplied to the Rock in Bury, a Ł350m mixed
use residential and retail development. The project is one of the largest Western
Red Cedar projects ever commissioned in the UK, requiring over 4,000 sq metres
of material.
The boards were used to create a rear-ventilated rainscreen cladding system on
all facades of what will become the new Debenhams store. Block ‘B’, which is a
mix of residential and retail units also benefited from John Brash Western Red
Cedar cladding.
John Brash supplied the Western Red Cedar with Class ‘O’ fire retardant treatment.
Cladding for the Debenhams store was supplied in a 32mm board thickness, which
were fixed vertically to 600mm wide x 3m high rear-ventilated cladding modules
by Longworth Building Services Ltd.
32mm thickness boards were required because the architects had specified a mechanical
secret fix system for fastening the Western Red Cedar to the 600mm x 3m modules
used on the Debenhams building. Secret fix systems require a thicker board for
drilling the anchor hole in the rear of each board. A face fix system was used
on Block D.
