The cladding of Campus300 in Den Bosch

Fast-tracking to facades that last

ZND Nedicom is providing the appearance of the Campus300 student residences in Den Bosch with wooden and aluminum facades. The specialist in roof and facade solutions is providing the residential buildings with 124 studios with over 4,000 square meters of wooden facades and over 1,100 meters of aluminum composite facades.

Contractor Van Wijnen asked ZND Nedicom to design the facades, says commercial director Pieter Janssen. The two companies have worked together successfully before, for example on the Bunkertoren in Eindhoven. "We engineer, supply and assemble the wooden and aluminum composite facades of the project. Van Wijnen asked us to be involved early on, so we have now been working for more than 1.5 years on advice, design and the preliminary process. We like to think along in the design phase. It is nice when there is mutual trust to make beautiful assignments together. If we can also use our expertise at an early stage, you arrive at the best solutions together."

For example, the architect had envisioned an anodized aluminum facade with a certain look. Janssen: "We proposed an aluminum composite facade with a coating in an anodized look, which gives you the same look. It is qualitatively and technically a super material to work with. The price-quality ratio also becomes more interesting."

High-speed train with good preparation

So after the construction vacation, the ZND Nedicom team was ready to jump on Van Wijnen's high-speed train. "Because of the tight schedule, we had to work at high speed. But we were able to capitalize on that, too, because we were involved so early on."

Sustainability

With FSC-certified wooden facades, sustainability is right on the mark. "The wooden facades are delivered with FSC certification. In addition to sustainable wood, there are also social frameworks attached to this label, such as local education and social development." The wooden facade is delivered in Fraké. The wood comes from Africa and is thermally processed and coated with a fire-retardant polymer in Sweden. "With this we guarantee the technical life of the wood. Provided it is mounted properly, you hardly need to maintain it." The wood is also coated with a pre-graying agent in Sweden. "That is a gray layer of paint, which eventually fades. At that point, the wood itself has also grayed, and that natural graying then comes out. That way, when the building is completed, it immediately gets
the final color."