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ULMA Polymer Concrete wins the NAN 2010 Prize in the Façades Category
This prize highlights R&D, innovation, quality and design as well as the environmental nature of the ULMA Ventilated polymer concrete Façade.
ULMA Polymer Concrete, through its Ventilated Façades line, has been awarded a NAN Architecture and Construction Prize 2010. To be precise, ULMA Ventilated Façades have been chosen as the best construction material in the category of Structures, Façades, Roofs and Partitions.
With this award the jury is highlighting the innovation, quality and design of the product, as well as the efforts made by ULMA Polymer Concrete to create a sustainable material with environmental awareness in mind.
The ULMA Ventilated Façade brings together notable aesthetic characteristics with effective advantages in terms of heat insulation and soundproofing. The resistance of polymer concrete allows the creation of really light panels with small dimensions. It contributes to a great ease of placement on site and to the achievement of performance which had been unthinkable until now. It is a product with great durability , adjustable on site, and endowed with a wide range of colours and textures.
The façade panels are manufactured by associating the mass polymer concrete with a surface coat of GEL-COAT. This surface coat, along with colouring pastes, is highly resistant to ultraviolet rays, contamination, solvents, graffiti etc. The absence of porosity of both the polymer concrete as well as of the Gel Coat, means that ULMA façade maintenance is limited to easy, periodic cleaning with soap and water.
The Prize-giving ceremony took place on Wednesday December 1st at IFEMA (Madrid). For this day the organisation arranged a day packed full of activities such as round tables, debates and the presentation of major projects, being attended by prestigious national and international architects.
This is the fourth edition of these prizes convened by the NAN Architecture and Construction magazine, part of the TPI Edita Group, and which has become a major reference in the world of architecture and construction.
