Almura Helps Build Revolutionary 'Golden Village' For The Elderly

Almura Building Products and Richardson Projects have teamed up to create a stunning £6 million residential village in Maccelsfield; the first UK development of its type in terms of scale and design. The building blends seamlessly with its surroundings thanks to pre-coloured, timber composite weatherboarding used on the project.

Ninety residents are housed in the 1.3 acre state-of-the-art three-story development split into three wings. One wing has six self-contained flats and the other two wings have six units of ten to twelve bedrooms. The care home has its own beauty salon, restaurant, shop and cinema, all housed under one giant roof. This replaced ‘The Larches’ care home, an outdated building in need of renovation.

Phil Marsh, Sales Director at Almura understands what the architect was trying to achieve in his design: “The new building is situated on a residential site opposite a row of detached houses, so it was very important that the building portrays itself on the street as a number of separate smaller buildings. This is why our pre-coloured composite weather boarding was the most appropriate cladding to use on this project.” The weather boarding has achieved its objective of presenting the care home as separate residential properties, in-keeping with surrounding buildings.

Mat Ward, Chief Buyer at Richardson Projects explains why he chose to use Almura’s weatherboarding product, “On this particular project we decided to use this specific type of pre-coloured timber weatherboarding because it allowed us to choose from a variety of colours. It’s also competitively priced, maintenance-free simple to install and arrives on site already cut to size, saving us a huge amount of time. Almura were always on-hand to advise on any technicalities regarding the material and installation.”

Werzalit pre-coloured timber composite weather boarding

During Werzalit’s long association with timber processing, timber has always been sourced from local forests; many of these supply associations are now over 40 years old, giving the forest management team ample time to develop sustainable supplies.

The production process also allows Werzalit to make use of timber that is not suitable for traditional timber production. This includes mis-formed trees, trees suffering from certain diseases, insect attack, allowing us to make use of material that would otherwise have a detrimental effect on the environment. Werzalit do not use any additional gas or oil fired heating.

Old material that has lost its colour and/or finish can be prepared to receive a new surface treatment of renovation paint: Acrylate Colorpan, applied conventionally to prolong the product life span.

Almura Building Products

Almura Building Products is a Cheltenham-based company, specialising in cladding and building materials. Almura source products from a variety of countries including the UK, Japan and the USA. Almura cladding is used to emulate materials such as natural timber, brick and stone.

In addition Almura also supplies Werzalit balcony systems, Terraza decking and internal window boards. Almura’s high quality products are ultra-low maintenance, simple to install, attractive and cost effective; ideal for all types of new build or refurbishment projects.

Richardson Projects

Richardson Projects is an established building contractor and property developer specialising in the refurbishment and construction of affordable housing and other public sector properties. The core business is the provision of construction services to housing association and local authority clients.

The company operates throughout the North West and Yorkshire regions of the UK and has over 380 staff and operatives. Richardson projects has earned a positive reputation for working in partnership with clients on all types of work undertaken including, design and build, traditional contracts as well as partnering and framework arrangements

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