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Thursday 3rd July 2008

Cookstown’s recently opened Orritor Road Retail Park has become the latest showcase for Acheson & Glover’s fast expanding range of high quality products.

Now home to leading multiples including Homebase, Next and Tesco, the development makes extensive use of Acheson & Glover’s entire Terrapave range to create a distinctive paving scheme with different products complementing each other to produce a coordinated, unified effect.

At the Next & Heaton’s stores, 300m2 of Country Cobble has been used, with the same area of Silver Boulevard at Marks & Spencer. In addition, 400m2 of Rimini Ground Natural Aggregate Flags pave the way to Tesco and Homebase. Thanks to the use of carefully sourced, top quality natural aggregates and sands, the flags have a strong and unique visual appeal.

Other major retail parks and shopping centres featuring the product include Dublin’s Airside retail park, the Marshes in Dundalk, Sligo retail park, Springfield Quay in Glasgow and Holywood Exchange in Belfast Harbour Estate where Ireland’s only Ikea store opened late last year.

In addition, the interior walls of the new Cookstown development feature Acheson & Glover’s Decoblock - an economical, high-quality walling product with a surface manufactured for painting.

Meanwhile the company’s Anchor retaining wall system was been used to minimise the height of walls - totaling 60 metres in length – along the development’s main access road.

Options for the type of wall that could be used were limited because it was to stand within six metres of a road boundary, making it subject to technical approval for highway structures (TAS) by the Northern Ireland Roads Service.

That left the choice between a concrete shuttered wall cast in-situ or Acheson & Glover’s Anchor products which are being used in a growing number of roadside projects.

Anchor Vertica was selected because its natural textured finish meant that unlike concrete, no facing or painting was required making it not only more aesthetically pleasing but also more economical.