# Cranleigh Health Centre. 10 mm rivet-fixed Parklex entrance cladding. Cranleigh, Surrey GU6. > 10 mm rivet-fixed Parklex panels supplied and installed at the front entrance of Cranleigh Health Centre, Surrey, a CLT-framed practice completed in 2012. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/ The team behind Dmitro Development supplied and installed the Parklex panels at the front entrance of Cranleigh Health Centre, a two-storey cross-laminated timber building on Cranleigh High Street, completed in 2012. ![Parklex wood-veneer panels wrapping the entrance tower and projecting window surround of Cranleigh Health Centre, lettered Cranleigh Medical Practice, Surrey](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-parklex-wood-veneer-panels-wrapping-entrance-fallback.jpg) 01 · Parklex wraps the entrance tower and its projecting window, lettered Cranleigh Medical Practice. Warm wood-veneer Parklex panels clad the tower and the deep projecting window surround at the front of Cranleigh Health Centre, 18 High Street, Cranleigh, with the practice name in raised steel letters down the tower. The team behind Dmitro Development supplied and installed 10 mm rivet-fixed Parklex panels at the front entrance of the building, completed in 2012. ## At a glance - **Package**: 10 mm Parklex panels, rivet-fixed - **Scope**: Supply and install at the front entrance - **Location**: High Street, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 - **Structure**: Cross-laminated timber - **Building completed**: June 2012 Cranleigh Health Centre is the NHS primary care building on Cranleigh High Street, built for Surrey Primary Care Trust. The Parklex wood-veneer panels mark its front entrance, set against the white render and brick of the rest of the building. [Part of: Cladding packages across Surrey and the South East](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## 02 · Parklex panels at the front entrance, beneath the steel and timber canopy. The panels run beside and above the sliding doors, between the white render and the brick entrance block. ![Parklex wood-veneer panels on the wall beside and above the glazed sliding doors of Cranleigh Health Centre, under a steel canopy with timber rafters and beside a brick pier lettered Entrance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-parklex-wood-veneer-panels-wall-glazed-fallback.jpg) The front entrance of Cranleigh Health Centre: large-format Parklex panels line the wall beside the sliding doors and the band above them, between the white render and the brick entrance block, under a steel canopy with exposed timber rafters. The team behind Dmitro Development supplied and installed these panels. ## 03 · The entrance front from the car park, the canopy set between white render and brick. ![Front elevation of Cranleigh Health Centre from the car park, with the Parklex-clad lettered tower, the canopied entrance and the curved brick entrance block under a blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-front-elevation-car-park-parklex-clad-fallback.jpg) The full front elevation of Cranleigh Health Centre from the staff car park: the lettered tower at the left, the canopied entrance at the centre and the curved brick block marked Entrance at the right, set in a two-storey building of white render and brick. ## 04 · The same frontage across the paved forecourt, the entrance set back under its canopy. ![Cranleigh Health Centre across its paved forecourt and steel bollards, the Parklex-clad entrance set back under the canopy beside the brick entrance block](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-paved-forecourt-steel-bollards-parklex-clad-fallback.jpg) Cranleigh Health Centre seen across its paved and bollarded forecourt, showing how the Parklex-clad entrance sits back beneath the canopy between the lettered tower and the curved brick entrance block. The building ## A two-storey health centre framed in cross-laminated timber. Cranleigh Health Centre replaced a 1960s health centre on the same 0.21-hectare High Street site with around 1,308 m² of primary care space, mostly over two storeys: 19 consulting rooms, three treatment rooms and a minor-surgery room. Surrey Primary Care Trust submitted the scheme in March 2011; construction was completed in June 2012 and the practice reopened that November. Its principal walls, floors and roofs are around 400 m³ of cross-laminated timber, engineered and assembled by Eurban in about six weeks. SR Architects designed the building and Morgan Sindall was the main contractor. The external palette sets brick, white render and timber panelling against the Parklex at the entrance. The rating and awards below went to the building. The team's own role was its Parklex entrance cladding. - BREEAM rating, 72.24%: Excellent - Healthcare Project of the Year, 2013 Timber in Construction Awards: Winner - Overall Design, 2013 Waverley Design Awards: Winner - Public Building, 2013 Waverley Design Awards: Winner - Community Benefit, 2014 RICS South East Awards: Shortlisted ## Beyond the entrance The rest of Cranleigh Health Centre: the garden elevation, the reception just inside the front doors under exposed timber, and a drawing of the building's form. ![Garden elevation of Cranleigh Health Centre with timber-faced window surrounds projecting from white render and dark brick, a young tree and lawn in front](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-garden-elevation-timber-faced-window-surrounds-fallback.jpg) 05 · The garden elevation: white render, dark brick and timber-faced window surrounds. Cranleigh Health Centre's garden elevation, where timber-faced window surrounds project from white render and dark brick above planted beds and lawn. ![Reception desk and waiting area inside Cranleigh Health Centre, white acoustic rafts suspended beneath an exposed cross-laminated timber roof, the glazed entrance doors behind](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-reception-desk-waiting-area-inside-white-fallback.jpg) 06 · The reception inside the front doors, under the exposed cross-laminated timber roof. The reception and waiting area just inside Cranleigh Health Centre's front entrance, where suspended white acoustic rafts hang beneath the building's exposed cross-laminated timber roof panels and beams. ![Isometric line drawing of Cranleigh Health Centre showing two-storey wings, flat roofs and the curved entrance block with three projecting window boxes](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/cranleigh-health-centre/cranleigh-health-centre-isometric-line-drawing-storey-wings-flat-fallback.jpg) 07 · An isometric drawing of the building's form, with the curved entrance block at the front. An isometric line drawing of Cranleigh Health Centre: two-storey wings around a central core, flat roofs, and the curved entrance block with its three projecting window boxes at the front of the building. ## Cranleigh Health Centre, its entrance clad by the team. 18 High Street, Cranleigh, Surrey GU6 - **Building client**: Surrey Primary Care Trust (NHS Surrey) - **Architect**: SR Architects - **Main contractor**: Morgan Sindall - **Timber engineer**: Eurban ## Related projects - [Unity Place. Aluminium cassette supply. South Kilburn.](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/) ![Planted courtyard between buff-brick blocks with aluminium-faced balconies and bronze aluminium panels at Unity Place, South Kilburn](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn/unity-place-south-kilburn-courtyard-completion-jpeg-fallback.jpg) Markdown: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/unity-place-south-kilburn.md - [BP Showcase Pavilion. 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