UK Building Envelope Specialist — Cladding & Façade Contractor.

Cladding, rainscreen and curtain-walling packages for the building envelope, delivered across commercial, residential and public-sector projects.

SYSTEMS & MATERIALS

Cladding & Façade services

Complete cladding and façade packages, engineered as one buildable assembly

A cladding package is more than the outer panel. Dmitro Development coordinates the support grid, fire and cavity barriers, insulation, membranes and backing-wall interfaces — with installation sequencing and QA — so façade packages stay buildable from design through handover.

Façade build-up

  • 01Outer claddingExternal cladding / rainscreen panel — the weather-facing skin that carries the architectural finish and sheds the first line of defence.
  • 02Rails & bracketsRails, brackets and support grid — transferring panel loads back to the structure while absorbing tolerance and movement.
  • 03Fire barriersFire stopping and cavity barriers — closing the ventilated void at floor lines, openings and compartment boundaries.
  • 04InsulationInsulation and thermal line — the continuous thermal line managing heat loss across the building envelope.
  • 05MembraneMembrane and weather-management layer — shedding incident moisture while letting the build-up dry behind the rainscreen.
  • 06SFS backing wallSFS / backing wall interface — the light-gauge backing wall that the whole envelope is anchored back to.

System build-up

A cladding system is more than the outer panel. Every layer — from rainscreen face to backing wall — is read together as one complete, buildable assembly.

Support and tolerance

Rails, brackets and the backing wall set the system out and carry it. Substrate, movement and setting-out tolerances are resolved so panels land true across the elevation.

Fire, thermal and weather line

Cavity barriers, insulation and membranes form a continuous fire, thermal and weather line — pressure and moisture managed across the ventilated cavity.

Installation logic

Sequencing, access and panel rhythm drive the install. Repetitive planar elevations can support high weekly output; complex openings, returns, interfaces and access constraints change the rate.

Drylining & Interiors services

From frame to finished interior.

Drylining, metal-stud partitions, plasterboard systems, plastering and tape & jointing — coordinated as internal packages, set out cleanly and finished ready for handover.

  1. 01Set outPartitions set out to grid — floor and head tracks fixed to datum.
  2. 02FrameMetal-stud framing erected plumb between tracks.
  3. 03BoardPlasterboard linings fixed to the specified build-up.
  4. 04FinishTaped, jointed and skimmed to one true plane — checked under a final light pass.

Suspended ceilings and fire or acoustic partitions, where required.

Drylining & Interiors

Recladding & Remediation services

Existing façades, stripped back and rebuilt as one system.

Recladding and remediation packages planned around survey, access, sequencing, replacement build-ups and recorded handover.

  1. 01SurveyCondition recorded bay by bay — openings set out on the existing joint lines.
  2. 02Strip backExisting panels lifted off in controlled sequence, access and residents held live.
  3. 03RebuildMembrane, insulation, carriers and cavity barriers reinstated as one build-up — new panels closed flush on the same joints.
  4. 04RecordEvery bay closed out against the survey — handed over as a recorded system.

Case studies

Selected cladding and façade case studies.

A selection of façade, cladding and envelope packages delivered for main contractors, developers and project teams across London and the wider UK.

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Zinc rainscreen recladding

Ability Plaza

Kingsland Road, Haggerston E8

VitraBond natural zinc rainscreen recladding of a canal-side residential block for Procare Construction.

Curved canopy soffit at the Performing Arts Centre seen from below, in anthracite-grey composite panels, with vertical timber battens on the wall above
Arts centre refurbishment

Putney High School

Putney, London SW15

Delivery-stage works in the 2015 Performing Arts Centre refurbishment under ITC Concepts.

Close view of the expanded-mesh cladding meeting at the building corner above angled windows
Cladding package

Canada Water Library

Rotherhithe, London SE16

A four-week cladding package at the RIBA Award-winning Canada Water Library.

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HQ extension cladding

Ashfield House

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

Cladding on the shedkm-designed Ashfield Healthcare HQ extension with John Sisk & Son, completed 2012.

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Engineered stone façade

The Lighthouse

St Peter Port, Guernsey

Shackerley stone and porcelain cladding with subgrid, insulation and fire barriers at The Lighthouse.

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Cladding package

Waterside Park

Silvertown, Royal Docks E16

A five-week cladding package at Waterside Park beside Thames Barrier Park.

Project enquiries

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