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Medici® Polished Marble

DISTINCTIVE POLISHED MASONRY WITH A STRIKINGLY BOLD APPEAL

Medici Firenze at Nuffield Hospital, Medici Carrara at White Rose Retail Park

For over 15 years, Medici® has been setting the standards for polished masonry in the UK. Combining rich blends of painstakingly selected natural aggregates with a highly polished face in a range of elegant colour variations, successfully replicating the rich texture of marble or granite and enabling you to create the structure and a prestige finish in one.

Now, through innovations in the production process, the NEW Medici® has even more to offer, proving that although you can't get better than the best, you can make the best even better. For the NEW Medici® is manufactured by a wet-cast, as opposed to a semi-dry process and this creates additional benefits.

Forticrete also has the capability to create bespoke precast components to complement the standard Medici® range.

For sales enquiries please contact our Thornley Customer Service office.

Mean CompressiveStrength (Air Dry): Solid: 35 N/mm²

Net Dry Density: 2400 kg/m³

Gross Dry Density: 2300 kg/m³

Manufacturing Tolerance: D1
length +2,-2mm
width +1,-3mm
height +2,-2mm

Catergory: I

Thermal Properties: as CIBSE Guide A table 3.1:
Protected: 1.75 W/mK
Exposed: 1.87 W/mK

Durability: see table 12: BS 5628-3:2005

Water Absorption: <15 g/m²/s0.5

Moisture Movement: <0.25mm/m

Water Vapour Permeability (tabulated from EN 1745): 50/150µ

Reaction to Fire: Euroclass A1

Shear Bond Strength:
(tabulated from EN 998-2:2003 Annex C)
0.15 N/mm²

Configuration: to EN 1996-1-1:
Group 1

Air Leakage: <1.03m³/hr/m²

Medici® is manufactured from a carefully controlled mixture of aggregates and cement in accordance with BS EN 771-3:2003 'Specification for masonry units' and meets the statutory requirements of the relevant sections of The Building Regulations 2000 and The Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (amended 2001).

NOTE: the shaded grey area denotes the polished surface as standard. Other surfaces may be polished to order. Additional requirements for polishing should be indicated on the architects drawing. Medici units are polished following cutting in the factory and should not be cut on-site. Non-standard lengths can be supplied pre-cut and polished to order. The thicknesses indicated are nominal, as actual thicknesses will be reduced by approximately 2mm during polishing or burnishing.

*The G1 unit has frogs on both top and bottom faces to assist in weight reduction

To obtain samples either call our Thornley office or complete the online form.

Recent Projects completed using Medici® masonry:

	New Medici Brochure (657 KB)	Click here to download
	Architectural Masonry:The Leading Edge - Medici (1241 KB)	Click here to download
	Masonry Design Guide 28pg_Booklet (2 MB)	Click here to download
	Forticrete Siteworks Guide 20pg V3 (4 MB)	Click here to download

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