A flagship new 195,000 square foot Marks & Spencer store is being built in Cheshire Oaks, UK, using Hemclad composite pre-fabricated wall panels developed by Lime Technology.
Offering the cost effective and fast track construction credentials associated with offsite construction, Hemclad provides high levels of insulation, thermal inertia and negative embodied carbon.
Each timber cassette panel is filled with Lime Technology’s Tradical Hemcrete, a bio-composite material made with hemp and a lime binder.
Lime Technology will provide 226 pre-fabricated panels for the construction of the store’s external walls. The panels will be typically 2.4 metres high, 4.8 metres wide and 400mm thick.
Once completed in 2012, the store, which has been designed by architects Aukett Fitzroy Robinson and is being built by main contractors Simons Group, will be Marks and Spencer’s largest outside of London and is expected to create more than 350 jobs.
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