Warrnambool Emmanuel College

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Growing in reputation and doubling student enrolments in ten years, Warrnambool Emmanuel College needed a multi-purpose space to grow alongside the community.

This space would need to serve as a beautiful backdrop for all aspects of student life; allowing creativity and academia to flourish, sporting opportunities to grow and a central space for community events.

Key to achieving this inspiring and flexible centre was the use of Cemintel’s Barestone, a pre-finished exterior facade that combines the look of raw cement with the performance and ease and installation of Cemintel’s ExpressWall. The cladding’s soft, dappled greys are set in a geometric pattern, tessellating across the building’s surface to create a practical yet striking aesthetic.

For a building that is the heart of the school community, BareStone was selected by the project architect Cirillo Architects and has been used to create a distinctive structure, adaptable to its many uses by students and the Warrnambool community. Being low maintenance, there is little upkeep needed to withstand the demands of a lively school setting, ensuring the space can simply be enjoyed.

“The college needed to maintain their excellent opportunities for a growing number of students, and the new building is important to achieving that. Cladding was the perfect fit for a busy school environment, as it’s pre-finished and low maintenance but enhances the design of the centre,” says David Janes, BDH Construction.

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CSR Cemintel are the fibre cement and lightweight composite solution specialists. With design and innovation as our central drivers, Cemintel offers engineered systems around prefinished solutions that enhance performance and aesthetics, as well as traditional internal lining products. Our passion is to help Kiwis design right, and build better.

Cemintel fibre cement is changing the face of design and innovation in Australia. Tapping into global design trends, Cemintel brings the best the world has to offer to the Australian market – providing the latest designs fused with innovative new approaches. Cemintel is part of CSR – the brand behind the most trusted building products. Cemintel has a progressive approach to fibre cement built around a team of experts, including; technical support, engineers and building designers. For our clients, it means you’re getting the best products paired with the best experience.

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With unparalleled design flexibility, fibre cement is perhaps one of the most flexible building materials available today. Through innovation and intelligence with cement panels, Cemintel offers a range of products, systems and services that inspire, giving choice and real design flexibility to create striking points of difference.

Unparalleled Design Flexibility

Fibre cement is perhaps one of the most flexible building materials available today.

  • It can be manufactured in numerous panel sizes and thicknesses.
  • It can be cut into various shapes and patterns.
  • It can be compressed for high strength applications.
  • It can be used in acoustic systems.
  • It can be used as a superior wet area lining product.
  • It can be painted.
  • It can be tiled.
  • It can be used for fire resistance applications.

New materials influence the way buildings are defined. Cemintel is responding to the growing importance of external and internal cladding with the release of new prefinished ranges. These ranges respond to the preference for high performance, lightweight materials and the desire for buildings to enhance the environment where we live. From external façades to interior surfaces, these ranges are a reinterpretation of cladding as we know it.

It’s the future of building and it starts now.

An Idea Born From Imagination

The father of fibre cement, Ludwig Hatschek, started to imagine a new building material in 1894. He wanted a material that was lighter than brick, cheaper than slate and better than sheet metal.

In 1900, he achieved his breakthrough with a special mix of fibres, cement, pulp, air and water. The Austrian calls the world’s first industrially manufactured building material ‘Eternit’ and numerous European countries adopted the technology from 1903. Australia first introduced the technology in about 1917.