Trowel Magazine Article

building RENOVATIONS
Rise of the Renovation
Photos courtesy of NovaCrown
By Jessica Kirby
Despite Canada’s economical ups and downs,
home and commercial renovations have remained
relatively steady over the past ten years, and
according to analysts are on a steady rise for 2015
and 2016.
According to TD Economics, single family and multi-unit
residential housing spending has increased an average seven
percent annually over the last decade. Although spending
is expected to plateau for 2014, 2015 and 2016 will see a
gradual increase.
Industry Trends by Scotia Bank says although renovations
may be in order, the majority tend to take place within the first
year of new home or building ownership and then taper off.
Tailing a constrained market, the amount spent on individual
projects is expected to remain tight, placing emphasis on on
finding budget-friendly solutions.
NovaCrown is a manufacturer of polystyrene moulding
components that can help create an upscale, eye-catching
space for a fraction of the time and cost of traditional building
methods.
For instance, the company completed an 800-square-foot
office space renovation at MDA Corporation’s Richmond
office that provided a beautiful, sophisticated coffered ceiling
and coffer accent in an upscale boardroom.
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MDA was pleased with the overall look
of the crown moulding and traditional
coffered ceiling, but wanted to try
something more cost effective and timesavvy than a boxed and drywalled coffer
on an adjacent kitchen area.
Stunning Ceilings
MDA is a world leading information and space systems and
services company. Among its many world class products
are the Space Shuttle and space station robotic arms and the
Radarsat satellites. Given its clientele and the scope of its
work, MDA management was looking for a boardroom that
would impress.
The work was required in three distinct areas of the building.
The client requested an authentic coffered ceiling in its main
600-square-foot board room, which would be accented in the
recess by NovaCrown’s crown moulding product. An adjacent
300-square foot kitchen area and additional 250-squarefoot board room would receive complete ceiling overhauls
using NovaCrown’s Coffered Ceiling Tile suspended ceiling
system.
On the main ceiling, 5x5-foot coffers received crown
molding detail at the recess, adding shape and style to the
application. The lightweight, easy to install components are
created in attractive, economical profiles out of polystyrene
and wrapped in drywall paper. The ease of installation and
finishing made MDA management take notice. The company
was pleased with the overall look of the crown moulding and
the installation of the traditional coffered ceiling, but wanted
to try something more cost effective and time-savvy than a
boxed and drywalled coffer on an adjacent kitchen area.
The company selected NovaCrown’s Coffered Ceiling Tile,
which is essentially a suspended ceiling tile system shaped
to look like coffered ceiling panels. The 2 x 2 and 2 x 4 foot
tiles are dropped into any standard grid, transforming this
particular room in less than four hours.
“If you were to do the regular ceiling work of building coffer
boxes and then putting the crown in, on the big coffer ceiling
it would have taken approximately eight days and cost around
$6,000 or $7,000,” says Dale Forsberg, sales manager with
NovaCrown. “With our ceiling system it took four hours and
costed under $1,000 to do the adjacent room.”
“A board room has to look nice,” he says. “It’s the big selling
point with major distributors. People say they don’t believe
it’s a tile—it looks that good.”
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The objective was creating the nicest board room they could,
and the designer selected the elegance of a big coffer, he says.
“But then they they saw what our product could do for a
fraction of the price.”
Like any suspended ceiling tile, the Coffered Ceiling Tile is
diverse and a snap to install. Its gyprock backer means light
fixtures can be secured without additional support, and the
additional weight is minimal at 3.5 lb per board. In fact, the
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“You see these gaps all the time in some
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they have the weight to sit in that track
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“You see these gaps all the time in some drop ceilings made
of light composite,” he says. “In ours, you can’t tell there’s a
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“We have a 72-hour turnaround time for specialty orders
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