# Ability Plaza. VitraBond zinc rainscreen recladding. Haggerston, London E8. > VitraBond natural zinc rainscreen recladding for Procare Construction at Ability Plaza, Haggerston, with insulated panels and replacement windows. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ The team behind Dmitro Development recorded a rainscreen-cladding package for main contractor Procare Construction at Ability Plaza, an existing mixed residential and commercial building on Kingsland Road, Haggerston, reclad in VitraBond natural zinc panels through 2016 and into 2017. ![Rooftop walkway at Ability Plaza with the City of London skyline behind, dark cladding enclosing the balconies below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-ability-plaza-fallback.jpg) 01 · Ability Plaza's rooftop walkway, looking toward the City of London skyline, above the recladding. Ability Plaza, Haggerston, seen from its rooftop walkway looking toward the City of London skyline, with the balconies of the residential floors enclosed in dark cladding below. The team behind Dmitro Development recorded a rainscreen-cladding package for main contractor Procare Construction on this existing 2005 building, comprising around 885 square metres of 4mm VitraBond VB5210 Natural Zinc rainscreen panels and 418 square metres of new insulated sandwich panels across the elevations, invoiced between January and April 2017. ## At a glance - **Package**: VitraBond zinc rainscreen recladding - **Location**: Haggerston · London E8 - **Original building**: Completed 2005 - **Main contractor**: Procare Construction - **Recladding**: 2016 to 2017 The team behind Dmitro Development recorded a rainscreen-cladding package on Ability Plaza, an existing mixed residential and commercial building on Kingsland Road, Haggerston, completed in 2005. Working for main contractor Procare Construction through late 2016 and into 2017, the package measured around 885 square metres of 4mm VitraBond VB5210 Natural Zinc rainscreen panels, rivet-fixed to aluminium support profiles and new insulated sandwich panels across the elevations. [Part of: Recladding packages](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/recladding-remediation/) ## 02 · Ability Plaza's Kingsland Road corner, reclad in 2016-17. The team's rainscreen package replaced exposed elevation elements on this existing 2005 building, working for main contractor Procare Construction. ![Ability Plaza's white-panelled corner on Kingsland Road, with timber-lined balconies along the adjoining elevation](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-white-panelled-corner-kingsland-road-timber-fallback.jpg) Ability Plaza's corner on Kingsland Road at its junction with Arbutus Street, Haggerston, with white panels around the windows and timber-lined balconies on the adjoining elevation. The team's rainscreen package replaced exposed elevation elements on this existing building, working for main contractor Procare Construction through 2016 and into 2017. ## Delivered in the recladding - Around 885 m² of 4mm VitraBond VB5210 Natural Zinc rainscreen panels, rivet-fixed to aluminium support profiles across the elevations - 418 m² of new insulated sandwich panels and additional SFS support studs, closing the wall build-up behind the rainscreen - Breather membrane, fire barriers and horizontal firebreaks through the cavity, with black aluminium coping, flashing and corner forming - Seventeen replacement windows, from 1.85 × 1.25 m to 2.3 × 1.25 m, refitted within the new envelope ![Grey rainscreen panels fitted in a jointed grid at Ability Plaza, with windows set at different heights](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-grey-rainscreen-panels-fitted-jointed-grid-fallback.jpg) 03 · Rainscreen panel cladding on one of Ability Plaza's elevations. Rainscreen panel cladding on one of Ability Plaza's elevations, its jointed panels fixed in a grid to the wall build-up behind. The team's 2016-17 package for Procare Construction measured around 885 square metres of 4mm VitraBond VB5210 Natural Zinc rainscreen panelling and 418 square metres of new insulated sandwich panels across the building's elevations. Before the recladding ## Ability Plaza was built in 2005, as part of a wider East London portfolio. Ability Plaza was completed in 2005 with 101 live/work units, ten ground-floor commercial units and eleven parking spaces, developed by the Ability Group under Andreas Panayiotou as part of a wider portfolio of live/work buildings concentrated in Hackney and Islington, alongside the expansion of the East London Line. In March 2007, G:res1, a residential investment fund advised by Grainger, agreed to acquire the wider 700-unit Ability portfolio. Ability Plaza remains part of Grainger's London rental estate today. The team's rainscreen-cladding package, recorded for main contractor Procare Construction in 2016-17, is a later refurbishment of this existing building's elevations, not part of its original 2005 construction. ## 04 · The building's lift-shaft tower, clad in flat metal rainscreen panels. ![A glazed lift shaft and a metal-panel-clad tower at Ability Plaza, with the surrounding Haggerston rooftops beyond](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-glazed-lift-shaft-metal-panel-clad-fallback.jpg) Ability Plaza's lift-shaft tower, clad in flat metal rainscreen panels beside its glazed stair enclosure, with the surrounding Haggerston rooftops beyond. A separate published record by panel supplier Valcan describes a related Ability Plaza scheme using VitraBond Natural Zinc panels to waterproof the external staircase and reclad the lift shaft and upper stairwell; the team's own tender record covers rainscreen panelling across the building's elevations more broadly, and the two have not been confirmed as the same scope. ## 05 · A close view of a window unit fitted within the recladding. ![Close view of a new window unit fitted within Ability Plaza's re-clad elevation](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-new-window-unit-fitted-re-clad-fallback.jpg) A close view of a window unit fitted within a re-clad elevation at Ability Plaza. The team's 2016-17 package included seventeen replacement windows refitted within the new envelope, alongside window-support profiles, internal and external membrane tapes and perimeter insulation. ## 06 · One of the residential blocks within Ability Plaza's wider Kingsland Road site. ![A brick residential tower in Ability Plaza's wider Kingsland Road development, with tall windows and projecting balconies](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ability-plaza-haggerston/ability-plaza-haggerston-brick-residential-tower-wider-kingsland-road-fallback.jpg) A brick residential tower within Ability Plaza's wider Kingsland Road site, Haggerston, with tall windows and projecting balconies. The 2005 development combined 101 live/work apartments with ten ground-floor commercial units across linked blocks; the team's 2016-17 rainscreen package is a later refurbishment of the building's elevations, not part of this 2005 original construction. ## Ability Plaza, reclad by the team. 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