The art of designing buildings across the Education Sector puts specific demands on architects and planners. Making material and system choices with the future of our country in mind is a responsibility we all take very seriously.

Safe, weathertight, warm, and healthy buildings are at the heart of the Equitone facade system. When combined with Insulwool external insulation and SideRise Cavity Fire Barriers, the Equitone system's safety factor is elevated even more.

Equitone HD Fibre Cement ticks all of these boxes and has been chosen as a cladding system for multiple recent Ministry of Education projects for the following reasons:

• Extremely long lifetime with low maintenance
• High density provides for tried and tested impact resistance in school environments
• Full wall fire tested, BS 8414, fire and flame resistant
• Stocked in New Zealand and available on indent for a huge range of colours from the Building Agency
• Options to personalise surface textures with etching, engraving and perforating
• Multiple installation systems
• Anti-graffiti options available

The beauty of Equitone is architects can experiment with size, pattern, and directionality, or simply allow the panels to accentuate a facade and achieve a dynamic visual result. The design possibilities are endless with EQUITONE. And all that with a minimal ecological footprint.