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More than 140 specialist vision panels from Vistamatic were supplied to Glasgow-based Dorsuite for use on the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, which will adjoin the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The new facility, which has a lifetime price tag of more than £500 million, will replace the old Royal Hospital for Sick Children that has been caring for children...
Wicona’s Wictec curtain walling was used to create a bespoke facade for the refurbished Merrion House, Leeds City Council’s offices. Fabricated by Facade and Glazing Solutions (FGS), Wictec was specified for its slim face width and strength to carry brick slip feature beams with steel frame reinforcements. Located in Leeds city centre, the £42 million refurbishment of the 1970s office...
900 Optima windows and doors have been fitted in a development of 82 new-build houses to the north of Glasgow named The Orchard. The brownfield site was acquired by Keepmoat Homes for the development and the contract for the windows and doors was awarded to Glasgow-based Profile 22 approved window contractor, Gold Seal Windows. All 900 units were installed on...
Architectural glazing systems by Kawneer were specified for their “robustness and quality” for two linked 16-storey apartment blocks on the last plot to be developed at Erie Basin in Salford Quays. Kawneer’s AA100 curtain walling features as strip curtain wall to copper-coloured rainscreen areas of the £37 million build-to-rent towers, a stone’s throw from MediaCityUK, Manchester. In addition, the manufacturer’s...
Dortech has installed Technal’s MX52 curtain walling system into a refurbishment project to upgrade and reconfigure an office building located close to Manchester Airport. Now known as The Landing, the building was acquired by The Property Alliance Group to extend its ownership of the Trident Business Park; offering new tenants 18,000ft2 of grade A space, as well as access to...
More than 300 Spectus Elite 70 System windows have been used in the construction of a new-build retirement village in Chorley town centre. Chorley Council commissioned the 65-apartment retirement village to provide those aged 55 and above with an independent living space with access to care and support. The development is part of the Council’s strategic masterplan for the town...
Hundreds of Victorian Sliders sash windows are gracing a coastal housing development in Seamill, West Kirkbride. Just minutes from the Firth of Clyde, and with dramatic views of the Isle of Arran, the Chapleton estate takes its inspiration from the Scottish domestic architecture of the 17th, 18th and mid-19th centuries. The range of two, three, four and five-bedroom houses it...
AB Glass has started work on a contract in the former Guardian Exchange building in Bristol for Kier Construction. The three-acre site, now known as Glassfields, refers to its former use as the original glassworks site of the ‘Bristol Blue’ manufacturing company. Royal London Asset Management has refurbished the historic Broad Plain terrace, with the plan to develop the cleared...
Students at Royal Holloway University of London can now benefit from an architect-designed private accommodation and social hub located in Egham, Surrey. The privately owned facility, called Hox Haus, is in an extended and re-modelled Grade II-listed Victorian gymnasium located a short bus-ride away from Royal Holloway, University of London. The project blends original Victorian brickwork with two new glazed...
Located in the 22@ district of Barcelona, the Luxa building has been designed by Batlle i Roig Arquitectura to reflect the city’s modern and vibrant place on the world stage, comprising twin towers embellished with silver and gold Wictec curtain walling, as well as other systems from the Wicona range. The Luxa building consists of two adjacent but independently functioning...
Senior Architectural Systems helped breathe new life into the recently refurbished Grantley Hall in North Yorkshire. The grade two listed building has been sympathetically repaired, renovated and extended to provide luxury hotel accommodation and a new build spa and wellness retreat. The prestigious contract, which is one of the largest engineering projects to be completed in the north of England,...
Window sealant products from Tremco Illbruck installation products are being used in the Hilton Garden Inn, located trackside at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit. The 197-room hotel includes a rooftop terrace, and direct access to The Silverstone Wing Conference Centre. Illbruck also offered fire safety advice. Specifiers had originally selected window sealant products that Illbruck knew wouldn’t meet stringent fire safety...
Wrightstyle is to design, supply and install advanced glazing systems for a flagship hospital in south-east Wales. The £350 million Grange University Hospital in Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, is one of the largest NHS projects in Wales. Construction on the 55,000m2 facility started in 2017 and it will admit its first patients in early 2021. The 560-bed new hospital will transform health...
Two high performance fenestration systems, available under the Technal brand, were used on a new student accommodation complex taking shape on the north side of Lancaster city centre. Caton Court, part of the wider Lawson’s Quay site, is currently being built by Eric Wright Construction for the developer Hines UK, while Preston-based LDG Contracts is the specialist fabricator that chose...
Profile 22’s Optima windows were specified in the development of 26 one- and two-bedroom apartments in a retirement development in Upper Norwood, London. Lewis House is a development from McCarthy and Stone, and included 97 windows and 26 door and sightlight combinations. The project was undertaken by Newview Homes, and the windows were manufactured by Emplas. The window specification required...
Eighty-eight of Kawneer’s AA100 SSG parallel opening vents were used as concealed windows within AA100 mullion-drained curtain walling and AA720 doors on the new £40 million London headquarters of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The Kawneer systems were specified by architects Penoyre and Prasad as they were a “cost-effective” solution to their needs and enabled them...
Morley Glass and Glazing recently completed a £500,000 integral blind installation at Belfast City Hospital’s new Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit. The £20 million two-storey building now benefits from Morley’s SL20 MB system, which was specifically developed for the project to feature two operating mechanisms – one for the patient to control inside their room, and a key-operated override system...
CDW Systems and Alfram were recently involved in the transformation of the Sixth Form Centre of Excellence at Cleeve School. With the brief of creating an eye-catching, yet practical learning space, CDW Systems manufactured and supplied a full suite of glazing products from Sapa:Technal. As part of the project, the team at CDW supplied Elegance 52 curtain walling, Dualframe 75mm...
Technal’s MX curtain walling was recently used across the elevations of a landmark residential project in the heart of Birmingham. Completed on a restricted site and to an unusually rapid construction programme, the project used an offsite manufacturing solution to reduce time on site. Wolverhampton based Breakwells Glass was awarded its £1.2 million contract to design, supply and install the...
The project team responsible for a striking residential property in the Channel Islands used Technal’s Dualframe 75 windows and the Elegance 52 curtain wall system, supplied by Pallot Glass and Windows, to complement the property’s modernist styling, as well as provide outstanding weather performance in a very exposed situation. Island based Pallot Glass and Windows, a long-time user of the...