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Posted On - 18/10/2019
Dortech recently specifiedTechnal’s MX62 curtain walling system for the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC). Dortech is providing a design, manufacture and installation package for all of the curtain walling on the five-storey structure. Throughout the project Dortech faced a number of technical challenges including: the building’s proximity to a very busy roundabout; the floor-to-floor heights; physical...
Posted On - 14/10/2019
The Window Company (Contracts)’ extensive experience in the schools sector helped the installer secure the replacement window contract at Loyola Preparatory School in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Recommendations came not just from other nearby schools, but even from other subcontractors who had seen the company’s fitting teams in action and had been impressed with the standard of work. Loyola’s bursar Maria...
Posted On - 14/10/2019
200 Spectus flush tilt andturn windows were specified and installed in the construction of 44 high quality social housing properties for Crawley Borough Council. The properties are situated in a high-profile location where the aesthetics of the development were vital. Spectus-approved window contractor Jade Window and Door Specialists was appointed to manage the fabrication and installation of the 200 anthracite...
Posted On - 14/10/2019
Nestled in the heart of the Welsh countryside is a stylish farmhouse called Llanerch, initially used as a working dairy farm and today popularly known for its vineyard. The property is regularly visited by guests looking to wine and dineamid the beautiful landscape. As part of ongoing development work on the property, the owners were looking to significantly enhance its...
Posted On - 24/09/2019
Profile 22’s Optima sculpturedwindows were specified and commissioned for 39 new build homes in Snedshill, Telford. The window specification was for a sculptured profile that could achieve an overall U-value of 1.4W/m2K. Secured by Design accreditation was a requirement as was PAS24/Part Q compliance. The site’s location near a busy road meant acoustic glazing was required on some elevations. Trickle...
Posted On - 17/09/2019
The design team responsible for the visually striking redevelopment of three redundant gasholders in the Kings Cross area of London used a unitised version of Wicona’sWictec system for the facades to the apartments created. Dating from the 1880s, the ‘Triplets’ are a trio of interlocking skeletal drums that once held supplies of town gas, which have now been relocated to...
Posted On - 17/09/2019
Structura UKhas completed a project renewing and refreshing a London landmark. Delta Point, the 28,500m2 former BT office building in Croydon, was overhauled as part of its transformation into 404 apartments and commercial units. Work started on complete glazing refurbishment coupled with refurbishing and refinishing the entire cladding facade. Due to the scale of this project, Structura was on site...
Posted On - 17/09/2019
A project to create a high-quality meeting room and classroom within the new upper school of the École Jeannine Manuel School in London has been completed using the fire resistant, timber frame glazing system Promat SystemglasLigna. The school, which is a co-educational, French bilingual, international school for 3-18-year-olds, was established in 2015. Its new upper school occupies a Georgian building...
Posted On - 17/09/2019
Architectural glazing systems by Kawneer, including two types of curtain walling, two types of window vents and two types of entrance doors, feature on a multi-award-winning new headquarters for the UK Hydrographic Office. The aluminium Kawneer systems were installed by specialist sub-contractor Dudley’s Aluminium for main contractor BAM to a design by AHR global.
Posted On - 04/09/2019
Two types of curtain wallingand entrance doors by Kawneer, including the first use in the UK of a new severe duty welded door, feature on an award-winning building at the heart of the dynamic redevelopment of Cardiff’s Central Square. Kawneer’s AA100 capped and zone-drained aluminium curtain wall, complemented by its structurally silicone glazed and mullion-drained sister product, have been used...
Posted On - 04/09/2019
Aluplast’s Ideal 70 was specified on a contemporary conversion of a residential care home, including a series of window installations across two-storeys. Cherry Orchard in Marlborough, a former NHS-run residential care home, was converted by Jones Building Group into eight two-bedroom and two one-bedroom apartments, earlier this year. The conversion of the building, which was originally constructed in the 1950s,...
Posted On - 13/08/2019
Cube Glass has made its first inroads into the leisure and hospitality sector by providing more than 150m2 of glass curtain walling at the new 230-bed Moxy Hotel at Edinburgh Airport delivered by Clark Contracts. Cube Glass created a vista of glass in the reception area and downstairs bar, which is part of the global Marriott hotel giant. Cube Glass project...
Posted On - 07/08/2019
CDW Systems recently lent its support to a £multi-million regeneration project at Shire Hall, the headquarters of Gloucestershire County Council. The trade and commercial fabricator was tasked with manufacturing and supplying Sapa’s Elegance 52 curtain walling, which was installed in blocks two, three and six of the building, including Gloucester Police Station. The combination of Elegance 52, along with photovoltaic...
Posted On - 22/07/2019
Aluk’s facades are at the heart of a recently completed residential development on Cardiff’s Bute East Dock, which combines both new-build apartments and affordable homes. Schooner Wharf is the first open market scheme to be developed by Cardiff Community Housing Association (CCHA), who were working in partnership with main contractors Morganstone. It features 32 two, three and four bedroom affordable...
Posted On - 15/07/2019
Target Windows has won a contract to fit windows and doors for a £multi-million housing estate in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The company will be working alongside main contractor Novus Property Solutions to build 128 homes and apartments. The project is being delivered by Fortior Homes, owned by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, and will transform an overgrown patch of land, vacant since 2005,...
Posted On - 15/07/2019
Newview Homes has been signed up to Heathrow’s Runway Three project. Already a Heathrow collaborator, Newview has installed thousands of acoustic windows for nearby homeowners as part of the airport’s ongoing noise attenuation scheme, the company said. Now, that scheme will be massively expanded, with the airport expected to spend £660 million on noise attenuation over the next 15 years...
Posted On - 21/06/2019
When Ridge Architects needed to specify replacement windows for a specialist school in Berkshire, Rehau’s Total70 profile provided ‘the perfect solution’. For many years the school has been served by traditional timber sash windows, but these were dilapidated and in need of replacement and so the school identified a need to replace the current windows with a profile offering high...
Posted On - 17/06/2019
By Wojciech Brożyna, Aluprof UK managing director. Unitised curtain wall is normally associated with new high-rise buildings, but in Belfast, Aluprof systems are being used to help transform an existing office block with a completely new building envelope. Located at Wellington Place in the heart of Belfast, the Merchant Square Office Development will offer over 200,000ft2 of Grade A office...
Posted On - 11/06/2019
Newview Homes recently completed an ambitious installation at Oxford Railway Station while causing minimal disruption. Nearly eight million people got the train to or from Oxford in 2018 – an average of almost 22,000 every day – and when station managers decided they needed high-performance glass fitted to a crucial stairwell and gantry bridge, they approached Newview. Five toughened and...
Posted On - 11/06/2019
The owners of an airport hotel recently turned to Stockport-based Cheadle Glass and fabricator Glazerite to help resolve hotel customers’ complaints about the nearby trainline. Using Veka M70 frames fabricated by Glazerite, the Cheadle Glass team installed 80 double-glazed windows over a three-week-period at the Clayton Hotel, Manchester Airport. The install replaced existing windows at the back of the hotel...
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