Decorative metal column casings, from the Pendock Radius range, are being used at the Porsche Centre in Preston, Lancashire, to conceal interior structural steelwork and add to the high quality interior of the two-storey main showroom and office area.
Part of the Bowker Motor Group, the Porsche Centre is located in the city’s Docklands area and features new and pre-owned Porsche sales, as well as administration and workshop facilities at the 43,000 square feet site.
Bespoke manufactured from 3 millimetre thick aluminium, to meet the precise project specifications, each of the 12 circular column casings are 375 millimetres in diameter and are stacked to reach the full floor to ceiling heigh of almost 6.0 metres.
To ensure that they adhere to the Porsche brand and corporate colour scheme, Pendock finished the casings with a polyester powder coating in RAL 9007 grey, which is also durable and easy to maintain.
This is also applied to column casings’ colour matched joint covers, headers and skirting collar infills, to give an integrated finish to the showroom interior. The casings are also utilised as a secure fixing point for the showroom’s directional spotlights.
The MET-CL style casings use on the Porsche project is one of six different column casing products under the Pendock Radius brand, which includes a range of shapes, finishes and materials, including pre-formed MDF and plywood options, as well as glass reinforced gypsum (GRG) and glass reinforced plastic (GRP).