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SUNWAY BIG BOX RETAIL PARK
CSC Steel goes big in its continuous delivery of realcolor® Supreme
t is widely believed and attested to that realcolor® Supreme provides superb performance for roofing and wall cladding in harsh environment. Perhaps a suitable showcase to study the advantages of realcolor® Supreme is in the making of Sunway Big Box Retail Park, Malaysia’s first-of-its-kind hybrid retail park located in the heart of Sunway Iskandar, Johor. An upcoming southern gem of Peninsular Malaysia and the 7th retail development under the Sunway Malls umbrella, the Sunway Big Box Retail Park comprises a mall, a hotel and an office tower housed in an open-air strip mall environment that spans across 500,000 sq ft in Net Lettable Area (NLA). A trademark feature of the retail park is the building envelope, created in geometric shapes and in vibrant hues of red, blue, yellow and orange. The building envelope is primarily composed of EP Clipfix Conceal Fix Roofing System and EP1000/35 Trapezoidal claddings with various insulation systems to comply with the project’s acoustics and thermal requirements – designed and engineered by European Profiles (M) Sdn Bhd, one of the leading solution providers of roofing and cladding systems in the country and the region. Spanning 30,000m2, the building envelope took around 18 months to complete based on steel structure handover time. It is installed piece by piece with sheets over 22m in length rollformed at the site. The chosen roofing and cladding profiles are designed to suit the demanding requirements of architects and owners who call for a complete weatherproof roofing system and long length sheets with roof pitch design as low as 1.5 degrees. The profiles have less side laps with wider pitch and higher rib heights to ensure better water shedding properties with greater rigidity. The performance of the roofing and cladding profiles is enhanced with realcolor® Supreme that contains 70% Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVdF) binder, which offers a unique combination of excellent outdoor durability, UV protection, formability and chemical resistance. Further, it offers supreme resistance to corrosion and outstanding colour retention for the building to remain beautiful all year round. A specific set of colours are chosen for the Sunway Big Box Retail Park, namely PVF RGB Red, Dawn Orange and Yellow in realcolor® Supreme as well as Fina Blue in realcolor® Primero, while Autumn Leaf in realcolor® Primero is chosen for the roofing. Since its inception in 2004, CSC Steel has played an active role in the Malaysian steel supply chain for the construction industry and strives to continuously place the highest emphasis on the quality of its steel as the company truly believes that real quality build strong brand credibility – a philosophy CSC Steel shares closely with its clients.
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