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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...
Promat UK has worked with Doorset Technology to help deliver a safe, calm and naturally lit environment for a specialist healthcare facility developed for mothers who are facing mental health problems. The new Ribblemere Unit, developed by Lancashire Care NHS Trust at the Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital, provides care for women experiencing severe mental health problems or...
County Windows has completed the installation of 26 Optima windows, two sets of Optima French doors with side screens, and a single Optima residential door in a new-build detached property in Herefordshire. Mitch Luckman of County Windows (which has been a Profile 22 installer for over 15 years) said: “It was a one-off development from local developer SA Lancett Carpentry...
AB Glass has been praised for its work renewing the windows at Dylan Thomas School, Swansea In addition to improving the appearance of the building, the new windows have enhanced its thermal performance, making it more energy efficient. They also have opening vents to improve ventilation. Paul J Davies, headteacher of Dylan Thomas School, said: “We are very grateful for...
Carl F Groupco has been selected by the Sovereign Group to supply Roto NT tilt and turn fittings. Roto’s tilt and turn system, which comprises modular NT face fix hardware and a Designo fully concealed hinged option, supports demand for premium quality tilt and turn windows, the company said. Dave Fitton, production director for the Sovereign Group, said: “Carl F...
The David Tepper School of Business sits at the heart of the university’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and aims to facilitate collaboration with academics from across the whole institution, bringing together disciplines that are often kept separate. This meant that fostering a sense of connectedness was a fundamental principle in the design, and glazing has played a key role in...
Glazerite installer Collington and Company has put the finishing touches on a project to transform a draughty school into an energy efficient building. The job at Cornwall-based Helston Community College saw 38 Halo Rustique windows installed. Sourced from The Glazerite UK Group, the fully sculptured white windows replaced the deteriorating wooden windows, which were over 40 years old. Collington surveyor/estimator,...
Nestled amid the narrow lanes and open fields of Dorset lies a coastal oasis for British holidaymakers. Hoburne Park is the latest recipient of high-quality products from glass safety specialist, Tuffx. The brief for the ongoing, phased project has been to supply over 250m² of 10mm toughened clear glass, and 10mm toughened grey glass balustrade panels – installed to provide...
Geze’s automatic doors have hit the right note in the development of a London building which is the new home of Universal Music. Two automatic circular sliding doors create a chart-topping entrance to four Pancras Square, one of a cluster of new buildings that have led to the emergence of Kings Cross as a creative hub. They are a statement...
Bretton Architectural is celebrating 25 years of working with Hydro Group and its Technal systems through its involvement on Phase II of an architecturally acclaimed student accommodation development in Liverpool. Constructed within the Mossley Hill Conservation Area, the parkland surrounding the University of Liverpool’s Greenbank student residences was gifted to the university by the Rathbone family in 1939; still offering...
At 23 storeys, the four-towered Code student accommodation building is one of the Midland’s tallest, most ambitious buildings – and a striking addition to the Coventry skyline that was only possible with help from Illbruck’s sealant technology. It will house over a thousand spacious studio apartments, a gym, a cinema and more, and is located just two minutes from the...