Sergeants Mess Hoarding, Mindenhurst

One curved run, 19 panels, 21.2 metres, no separate header-and-kicker strips.

Project summary

Client	Aspen Construction Limited (hoarding carries Bourne Homes branding for the Officers Park development)
Location	Sergeants Mess, Mindenhurst, Surrey
Project type	Printed ACM over-cladding for an existing curved site hoarding
Scale / Timeline	19 panels, 1220mm x 2440mm each, 3mm ACM, approximately 21.2 linear metres across five curved sections (roughly 2.4m, 2.2m, 9.9m, 2.0m and 4.7m).
Key services	Artwork proofing, ACM panel production, Pantone 200 colour matching, matt lamination, mechanical fix installation over an existing structure

The Project

Aspen Construction Limited approached Wallace Print to over-clad the existing construction site hoarding at Sergeants Mess, Mindenhurst, part of the Officers Park development in Camberley, with new printed panels carrying Bourne Homes branding and property imagery. Rather than replacing the hoarding structure itself, the brief was to cover it with new artwork, upgrading the site’s appearance without the cost and disruption of rebuilding the boundary from scratch.

The hoarding runs for approximately 21.2 linear metres and follows a curved section of the site, which made this as much a geometry problem as a print one: getting a long run of individual panels to read as one continuous, aligned graphic around a bend, rather than as a series of flat boards bolted up in sequence.

The Brief

The brief called for 19 single-sided 3mm ACM (Aluminium Composite Material) panels, each 1220mm x 2440mm, close to the standard panel size Wallace Print uses for hoarding generally, covering the existing hoarding across five sections of roughly 2.4m, 2.2m, 9.9m, 2.0m and 4.7m that together follow the site’s curved layout. The graphics needed to carry Bourne Homes branding, exterior imagery of Officers Park, internal property imagery and contact information.

Rather than fitting separate header and kicker strips, Aspen Construction chose to have the red header-and-kicker effect built directly into the printed artwork, using Pantone 200 red for the top and bottom bands. That decision put more weight on the artwork and production stage, since the coloured bands needed to line up consistently from panel to panel and around the curve, in a way that a separate physical strip would have made it easier to adjust on site.

How It Was Done

The proposed method started with a pre-installation check of the existing structure: the substrate, dimensions, panel positions, start and end points, and any gates, doors, vents or other obstructions that would need cut-outs, the same groundwork covered generally in how Wallace Print installs graphics safely and effectively. Working over an existing hoarding, rather than a new flat substrate, meant that check mattered more than it would on a standard install, since the panels had to fit a structure that was already there rather than one built to the drawing.

Once artwork and layout were signed off by email proof, the specification called for the panels to be produced to size, protected with a matt laminate, and mechanically screw-fixed to the existing hoarding, working progressively around the run from an agreed fixed point. For the curved section specifically, the plan was to establish a level datum first, then check panel joints and top-and-bottom alignment continually as the installers worked round the bend, since the printed header-and-kicker bands would show up any drift in a way a plain panel wouldn’t.

No adjustments beyond that standard pre-installation check were needed on site, so the curved section and any gates, doors or vents along the run were covered by the same process as the rest of the job rather than requiring anything extra.

The installation was allowed for as a two-person team over one full day, working normal hours with no specialist access equipment, against a specification completion date of 18 September 2026.

The Outcome

The material supplied for this case study covers the specification and planned delivery in detail: panel count and sizes, the Pantone colour, the fixing method and the installation allowance. Installation photography exists and will be added to the case study once supplied. What isn’t stated anywhere in the material is a confirmed completion date, so that stays unconfirmed here rather than assumed from the photography existing. No client quotation was supplied at any stage either, so none has been invented for this draft, though a genuine comment from Aspen Construction or Bourne Homes can be added after the case study goes live if one becomes available later.

Once the photography is added, alt text can be written to match. The remaining gap is simply the exact date the install was completed, since the specification only set a target of 18 September 2026, and that date has now passed.

Products and Services Used

• Printed hoarding graphics
• Construction site hoarding, including over-cladding of an existing structure
• ACM (Dibond) panel material, 3mm, matt laminated
• Pantone colour matching for large-format print
• On-site installation, mechanical fixing to an existing structure

Why Wallace Print

The distinctive part of this job, on the material supplied, is less that Wallace Print printed hoarding panels and more the planning that sits around it: taking on an existing, curved hoarding structure rather than a new flat one, building a pre-installation check into the job before manufacture, and printing the header-and-kicker effect into the artwork itself rather than relying on separate strips that would have been easier to align on site but harder to keep looking considered. Getting a printed colour band to read as continuous around a bend, across 19 separate panels, is a production and installation problem as much as a design one.

Turning an existing hoarding into a coordinated, branded frontage is the same logic covered in the benefits of printed hoarding for construction site branding: the barrier a site needs anyway becomes a shopfront for the development, rather than bare boards, and here that applied to a structure Aspen Construction already had in place.

If you’re planning branded hoarding graphics for an existing structure, or a site with an awkward or curved run, contact Wallace Print at sales@wallaceprint.com or 01634 724 772.