What does Facade Retention & Restoration construction cover?

Q: What does Facade Retention & Restoration construction cover?

Facade retention temporary works; Stone and brick repair and repointing; Facade cleaning (chemical, DOFF, abrasive); Terracotta, faience and cast stone replacement; Recladding and external wall remediation; Heritage and listed building envelopes; Window and secondary glazing renewal

Facade Retention & RestorationSpecialist Works →

Holding historic facades while everything behind them changes - and restoring the envelope itself.

Facade work splits into two related disciplines. Retention keeps a facade standing - on a temporary steel frame - while the building behind it is demolished and rebuilt, the classic move where planning requires the street frontage to survive. Restoration repairs the envelope itself: stone and brick cleaning and repair, repointing, terracotta and faience replacement, cladding remediation and the modern recladding programmes driven by fire-safety regulation.

Facade retention temporary worksStone and brick repair and repointingFacade cleaning (chemical, DOFF, abrasive)Terracotta, faience and cast stone replacementRecladding and external wall remediationHeritage and listed building envelopesWindow and secondary glazing renewal

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About Facade Retention & Restoration

Both live on survey quality. A retention scheme is a temporary works design carrying wind load on a structure that was never meant to stand alone; a restoration contract on a listed elevation is negotiated stone by stone with a conservation officer. Neither forgives assumptions about what the wall is actually made of.