Timber Cladding

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Accoya cladding

Brilliance for generations to come

Your exterior cladding needs to weather any storm, in style. We know that aesthetics, low maintenance and durability are crucial. What you may not know is that Accoya out-performs even the most durable tropical hardwood cladding.

By combining superior stability and durability with the beauty of natural wood, you can achieve the look and the performance you want from your timber cladding. Not to mention Accoya’s world-leading sustainability credentials. Accoya is the ideal wall cladding choice.

To specify Accoya timber cladding in your next project, head to our Architect Zone to learn more.

Warranty

Accoya timber cladding has an industry-leading warranty, giving you peace of mind and complete confidence in it’s performance.

Ideal for Coating

Stay true to your vision with a range of finishes, including Shou Sugi Ban and bespoke board sizes and fixings. Left untreated, your exterior cladding will weather naturally. But if you’d prefer to coat it, Accoya cladding makes the ultimate surface.

Highly Stable

Resistant to rotting, Accoya exterior cladding is likely to stay free of any visible distortion over its lifetime. A cost-effective choice for lasting performance.

Sustainably Sourced

Now you can meet the most demanding of planning requirements. Accoya wood cladding is 100% non toxic and contains no biocides or harmful chemicals. Each timber cladding panel is made from FSC® certified timber that’s fully sustainable.

What is cladding?

What is cladding?

Cladding is a layer of material applied to a building or surface, sometimes called wall cladding. Exterior cladding is very popular and is often chosen to provide extra protection, although internal cladding is available too.

Wall cladding can also be an aesthetic choice and is available in numerous materials including timber cladding. If timber is desired, Accoya is an ideal choice, providing exceptional stability, durability and many other benefits which other timber cladding cannot offer.

Accoya Cladding Performance

Accoya cladding is made of FSC® certified wood and has numerous advantages: lasting performance, beautiful aesthetic and the clear conscience that you have used a sustainable material.

Key benefit Accoya Blackbutt Western Red Cedar Spotted Gum
Lifespan ✓✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓(✓)
Warranty ✓✓✓ N/A N/A N/A
Coatings performance ✓✓✓ ✓✓
Stability ✓✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓
Sourced sustainably ✓✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓
Table shows comparison between properties of Accoya wood and other timber cladding types.

Cladding Applications

Accoya cladding is very versatile, discover some additional uses here.

Testing by BM Trada

Testing by BM Trada

Stability

Leading timber research institute, BM Trada, tested Accoya stability against other widely used cladding materials by cyclic exposure of coated boards to wet and ambient conditions.

BM Trada found that Accoya has exceptional stability and using Accoya cladding boards externally could increase from standard 150mm wide profiles to 200mm. This highlights the design flexibility and superior performance of Accoya compared to western red cedar, larch and thermally modified pine.

Coatings performance

BM Trada was also commissioned for a series of exposure trials starting in February 2007 in Buckinghamshire, England. The trials used the same translucent black coating for maximum radiant heat build and tested resistance to natural weathering and splitting of Accoya cladding board’s compared to pine and Siberian larch.

After 3.5 years, Accoya was found to outperform in a number of ways. Pine cladding showed severe levels of fissuring, resin exudation, end fissuring, paint peeling over fissures, shelling, surface checking and board distortion; whilst Siberian larch had extensive surface checking and burst resin pockets.

Accoya had a flat surface with no grain raising, virtually no shelling, cracking, checking or fissuring. External dirt was easily cleaned off revealing a sound clean surface with no coating issues. Proving Accoya has superior coating performance compared to many competing materials.

Assessed by BRE

Assessed by BRE

Durability

BS EN350-2 does not apply to modified timbers such as Accoya, however, in a BRE assessment Accoya achieved durability class 1 rating equivalent to class 1 of natural timbers. Therefore service life statements attributed in BS 8417 are applicable to Accoya wood. Under BS 8417, only cladding made from timbers of durability class 1 are suitable for situations where there is a desired service life of 60 years.

To specify Accoya cladding in your next project, head to our Architect Zone to learn more.

Coatings & Finishes

A variety of colours and coatings can be implemented on Accoya timber cladding. Let yourself be inspired by a few examples.

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Accoya cladding for Barangaroo development

Case study

Accoya cladding for Barangaroo development

Barangaroo House, a three-storey restaurant, was one of the first projects in Sydney to utilise Accoya wood cladding, the world-leading high performance, sustainable wood product, and the distinctive Japanese charring technique, Shou Sugi Ban.

Situated in Barangaroo, a dynamic commercial and residential area, Barangaroo House opened in December 2017, the latest venture by one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs, Matt Moran.

The unique split level restaurant was designed by architects, Collins and Turner. Supplied by leading timber experts, Britton Timbers.

Darling Exchange with Accoya façade

Case study

Darling Exchange with Accoya façade

Accoya cladding has been chosen for the wood siding on the Darling Exchange, part of the Barangaroo reserve. Taking prime position, the Accoya timber cladding stands out on the spiralling 6 story structure at the heart of Sydney’s Darling Square District.

20 kilometres of Accoya exterior cladding was supplied to contractors Lend Lease for the manufacture and installation of an Accoya screen that wraps the exterior of the building in a dynamic and exciting manner.

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