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The Challenge
It isn’t every day that Bondor Metecno Tasmania are approached to supply product for a ‘ground up’ shopping complex build, but when the opportunity came up in regional Tasmania in 2024 it was a challenge the team were ready to tackle.
The shopping complex was centred around a supermarket with additional tenants to include a bakery, a takeaway, and a bottle shop, with concrete tilt-up walls and an exposed roof structure.
The brief that came across State Manager – Tasmania, Ashley Moore’s desk was to supply panelling that was not only thermally effective but commercially and aesthetically pleasing.
As with any project involving food and produce storage, not just any product would do.
The project needed to deliver in three key areas—thermal performance, ease of installation, and aesthetic qualities.
The project needed to deliver in three key areas—thermal performance, ease of installation, and aesthetic qualities.
MetecnoSpan® roofing, MetecnoInspire® walling, and MetecnoPanel® for the cool rooms and freezers provided the perfect combination.
The Solution
“This project is a great example of the wide range of panelling Bondor Metecno can offer for various commercial and industrial applications in a single project,” Ashley said.
“The roof, walls, and cool room show how our products work together for quick installation, strong thermal performance, and a consistent, functional design.
“Although we’ve done several projects with cool rooms with food safety requirements, what is unique about this project is the choice of Monument dark panelling for the internal roof and wall finishes.
“The architect selected the colour scheme not only to complement the supermarket anchor tenant, but also because it helped camouflage exposed services like cable trays, electrical work, and ductwork that are visible on the underside of the roof.
“The uniform, dark appearance not only helped conceal internal building services but also offered visual simplicity and a clean, streamlined look to the building’s interior.
“In fact, the colour scheme has become a recurring design choice for the supermarket chain,” he said.
The final building features:
Roof: MetecnoSpan® Surfmist over Matt Monument x 2815m2
Perimeter lining internally: MetecnoInspire® 60mm Monument over White x 840m2
Cool rooms: MetecnoPanel® 100mm Monument over Monument x 274m2
Freezer: MetecnoPanel® 150mm Monument over Monument x 108m2
The outcome of the project proving that the client and complex truly could have it all: form and function.
Today, the regional shopping complex is visited daily by hundreds of locals stocking up on essentials who get to enjoy the ‘cool’ aesthetics and even cooler internal temperature with the application of the MetecnoPIR product.
MetecnoSpan®, MetecnoInspire®, and MetecnoPanel® all feature a polyisocyanurate (PIR) rigid core between layers of BlueScope® COLORBOND® steel. They deliver extreme thermal efficiency and are fire retardant, CodeMark™ accredited, GreenRate certified and FM Approved to FM 4880 and FM 4471.
