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Posted On - 13/05/2017
Hazlemere Commercial has completed a £2.3m installation project on a sustainability award-winning Devon school. The Buckinghamshire firm was contracted to supply and install window and door products for the recently completed Bideford College building. Capable of housing 1,800 students, and part of the Launceston College Multi Academy Trust, the college was funded through the government’s now-defunct Building Schools for the...
Posted On - 28/04/2017
The regeneration of the once huge Longbridge works in the Midlands, where many famous British motor cars were originally built, has seen the area transformed into a vibrant new retail district, with MX Grid Curtain Walling as well as doors and windows from the Technal range involved. Known as Park Point, the town centre regeneration is now in its...
Posted On - 27/04/2017
Paradise Windows has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Rehau Installation of the Year Award for its work on a modern detached property in Nottingham. Paradise Windows’ winning entry was an anthracite grey installation, with a glazed irish oak double height gable entrance. The installation included nine windows and five sets of double doors, all from the Rehau...
Posted On - 26/04/2017
Clement has replaced hundreds of industrial style steel windows at the newly restored Maple Building in Kentish Town, London. Clement Windows’ W40 steel window range was chosen to match the original metal fenestration, a striking feature of a converted warehouse building in north west London. As well as offering good looks and strong acoustic performance, the Clement W40 range enhances...
Posted On - 21/04/2017
Picton Glass and Joinery completed a renovation project recently in one of Liverpool’s key conservation areas. A total of 48 windows were installed on the Parkfield Road building, which is home to nine apartments in the Sefton Park area, and the project took around three months to complete. Frank Hare, owner of the Glazerite UK Group customer, was approached by...
Posted On - 30/03/2017
Architectural aluminium systems by Kawneer were specified for a construction company’s regional office. Kawneer’s AA100 zone-drained curtain walling with 50mm sightlines was used for high-level ribbon windows in the east masonry elevation of main contractor Kier Construction Eastern’s £6.5 million new headquarters, Building 3000, on a greenfield site on Cambridge Research Park. This was complemented by Kawneer’s AA540 fixed lights...
Posted On - 29/03/2017
AB Glass has started work at the new Eastern High School site in Cardiff, following the company being awarded a contract to provide design, manufacturing and installation services for the new school. The contract has been awarded to the Swansea-based company by Willmott Dixon. Following completion of the design and manufacture phases, AB Glass is now currently carrying out the...
Posted On - 29/03/2017
When The Window Company (Contracts) supplied and installed 50 windows in the new Hyundai offices at Tilbury Docks for JW Steele & Sons recently, it marked the 20th anniversary of the partnership between the two businesses. The Window Company (Contracts) supplied 50 windows in the Rehau system, that were all coated to mid-grey RAL7012 on the outside to match the...
Posted On - 18/03/2017
Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s recent renovations to its headquarters in Egham, Surrey, included a new lobby area that was sensitive to the current building’s design. Area Sq contacted Glasstec Systems to design and install the new lobby structure, which included a powder coated aluminium cantilevered roof/canopy structure, supporting steel framework, automated revolving glass door, glass panels, and other architectural metalwork. Glasstec Systems...
Posted On - 18/03/2017
Twelve Profile 22 windows were recently supplied by Profile 22 customer Framexpress for a picturesque Cotswolds cottage. “The homeowner’s brief was for a perfect visual match in relation to the style of all windows at the property, primarily to complement the area, which is recognised for its rolling hills and picture-postcard cottages,” said sales manager Ian Davis. “Requesting cream windows...
Posted On - 18/03/2017
SageGlass has been specified as part of a major development in London: the new Lambeth Civic Centre. Cartwright Pickard specified SageGlass, the smart tintable glass from Saint-Gobain, as part of the ‘Your New Town Hall’ project designed for the London Borough of Lambeth. Work is currently underway on the redevelopment scheme in the heart of Brixton, which will deliver a modern...
Posted On - 18/03/2017
Framexpress has supplied all the replacement products for a refurbishment project in Jersey. The installation by Competitive Windows was part of a major investment for the homeowners who wanted to upgrade their existing property rather than move to a new one. The prestigious private home, situated in one of island’s most highly sought after areas, required replacement windows throughout. The...
Posted On - 09/03/2017
Planning was not a problem when a resident of one of Yorkshire’s best-known seaside conservation areas chose to replace timber windows with PVCU. Once the planners had seen frame samples, it was put through on the nod without even needing a formal planning application. The frames were in the Residence9 system fabricated by The Glazerite UK Group and the result...
Posted On - 09/03/2017
Bringing a tired 1970s landmark office building back to life, architectural aluminium systems from Technal have been installed at Nine Bond Court in Leeds to create the high specification and contemporary exterior this prestigious commercial address deserves. Located in the heart of Leeds’ Commercial Quarter, 12-storey Bond Court, which provides approximately 60,000ft2 of office accommodation, has been a city centre...
Posted On - 08/03/2017
Architectural glazing systems from Kawneer were value-engineered as a major element of the second phase of Cardiff University’s Science and Innovation campus. Three versions of Kawneer’s AA100 curtain walling, complemented by two versions of AA541 windows, and AA545 and series 190 doors feature on the £24 million Cubric (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre) building at Maindy Road. Kawneer’s AA100...
Posted On - 02/03/2017
Hazlemere recently completed the £2.5 million renovation of Merton Civic Centre. Working as the project’s principal contractor, Hazlemere Commercial replaced and recycled more than 2,000 of the original steel-framed single-glazed windows that were deemed unfit for purpose by an independent glass and glazing consultant. In their place, the company installed thermally efficient Sapa Dualframe top swing reversible windows across the...
Posted On - 27/02/2017
A residential care home in Stoke-on-Trent has recently been refurbished to provide state-of-the-art care facilities for its NHS patients. Main contractors Sandycroft Construction specified Kestrel Aluminium Systems’ products for all the glazing requirements, and fabricator, 5 Star Windows completed each part of the job in accordance with a tight schedule. The project required a mix of different systems: commercial doors...
Posted On - 24/02/2017
Wrightstyle is supplying advanced window systems for a prestigious mixed-use development in central London. The project at 71-77 Wigmore Street consists of four buildings, where the facades are largely being retained but with the interiors demolished and reconstructed to form basement and ground floor retail space and eight apartments. Wrightstyle is supplying 39 advanced window systems consisting of Secco Sistemi...
Posted On - 21/02/2017
By the end of 2017 Cardiff-based fabricator Dudley’s Aluminium will have installed the majority of the aluminium facade, glazing and entrance doors at the new BBC Cymru Wales Headquarters at Central Square Cardiff, as part of a contract with ISG on behalf of Rightacres Property. The project will see the local contractor install more than 800 glass panes, some of...
Posted On - 13/02/2017
AB Glass has been awarded a contract by Kier Group to complete works at a new post-16 further education college in Cornwall. AB Glass, based in Swansea, has been enlisted by the leading property, residential, construction and services company to install AA100 curtain wall screens, AA540 windows and AA190 doors, and circular pivot windows at the site in Bodmin, Cornwall,...
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