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The process of upgrading windows in homes that are listed, in a conservation area or area of natural beauty, can become expensive and a technical labyrinth when applying for permission, south east-based fabricator Window Designs has reported. The company highlighted the case of Karen and Mark Cheater, owners of the Langtons Guest House on Eastbourne seafront, who recently discovered just...
G-Smatt has completed the installation of what is believed to be one of the world's largest installations of an architectural LED media glass facade – on the Coex Convention and Exhibition Centre in Samseong-dong of Gangnam-gu district in Seoul, South Korea. The project took three months to install and was completed in December 2017. There were a number of challenges...
The mullion-only VS-1 glazing system from Glassolutions, which reduces sightlines and maximises interior brightness, has been installed at a new community hub in south-east London to create a “light, bright social space with a welcoming ambience”. The Aperture building forms part of the regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula, an ambitious 150-acre project led by property developer Knight Dragon which is seeking...
Windows specifically designed by Kawneer for the healthcare sector are bringing four-fold benefits to a new £40 million mental health hospital, the company has announced. Kawneer’s AA3110HW windows maximise ventilation while minimising the risk of self harming. They feature anti-ligature elements such as a wraparound gasket that breaks into harmless pieces when there is an attempt to remove it, together...
Oxford based G-Smatt recently installed its smart glass tunnel at a networking event, hosted by Monocom at Mini Plant Oxford. The tunnel, which is formed from G-Smatt's interactive media glass, measured 2.25m wide by 6.3m long and 2.5m tall, and provided a centre piece for the evening event which was attended by approximately 70 people from corporations including John Lewis,...
Roof Assured by Sarnafil installer, Roofpro London, was appointed for a project in Holland Park by main contractor IMKO London. Roofpro installed the Sarnafil single ply membrane on a Grade 2 listed building converted into flats and owned by a charitable institute. The original 320m2 roof was made up of layers of felt and asphalt roofing materials, and was in...
Chewton Bespoke Homes installed four Korniche 3.6m x 2.1m roof lanterns in the Solent Suite, Marsham Court Hotel, Bournemouth, as part of a major refurbishment. Darren Crain, owner of Chewton Bespoke Homes based in Highcliffe, Dorset, enquired at Made For Trade when he was looking for an aluminium roof lantern that suited the architectural qualities of the grand ball room...
Swish installer Somerglaze Windows has completed a refurbishment project on a home in Somerset. The project was to replace 13 windows throughout the property, along with several doors. Gary Hembrow, director of Somerglaze Windows, said: “The customer had extended the property and we therefore needed to replace the windows throughout the main house to tie in with the new extension....
Designed for key workers in the town, Orbit Housing’s Fordham House in Stratford-upon-Avon aims provide enhanced protection against noise, a superior maintenance and repair strategy, and additional facilities such as secure internal bike storage rooms. Much of the budget has come from the specification of Modus PVCU windows from Eurocell in place of the aluminium frames originally specified. “We saved...
Rooflights from Lonsdale Metal Company have brought much-needed light into a west London home. Located in a conservation area, the property required updating by remodelling the kitchen and dining room that suffered poor connection to the rear garden. North facing, these rooms received little daylight from the modest sized windows. It was a dark and dingy space. Architect Simon Feneley’s...
Wrightstyle has been appointed to work on a sixth Crossrail station. The contract at Paddington station will see the company fabricate bonded doors and blast-rated screens for Craft Interior. Devizes-based Wrightstyle is also supplying a range of blast and fire-rated doors, screens and curtain walling to Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations on what will become the...
A bat-friendly window designed and manufactured by West Port has allowed a housing project to continue unhindered. A collaboration between Speller Metcalfe and Linden Homes, the Victory Fields development has seen the transformation of decommissioned Gloucestershire air force base Little Rissington into a collection of luxurious homes – but the venture hasn’t been without its challenges. While converting the base’s...
Unique Window Systems recently secured a contract on new-build development in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. The project is a collection of two-bedroom apartments being built alongside three- and four-bedroom homes, using the WarmCore system to mirror the project’s contemporary design. WarmCore combines an aluminium exterior with a full-width, thermal PVCU core, and housebuilders including Avant Homes, Bellway Homes, Davidson Homes and...
Wilburn Basin is a new housing development of nearly 500 homes in four blocks ranging from eight to 21 storeys around the historic River Irwell Basin, Manchester. 1,200 windows, including stacked/ribbon windows, plus 440 sets of French doors were specified in PVCU by main contractor Renaker. High levels of acoustic glazing were required on elevations that were located next to...
Reynaers’ aluminium curtain wall system for facades and roofs has created new angles for a modern office building for French company Groupama in Charters, south west of Paris. Its building was designed by Agence Franc Gérard and covers 4,400m2, with an envelope in pre-oxidised copper panels. The staggered facade curtain walling, created from Reynaers’ CW 50 multi-level product, incorporates vivid...
A £multi-million office space, recently developed in central Reading as part of a scheme to replace a 1980s five-storey building with a new Grade A commercial building, used systems from Hueck. The new build development attains a BREEAM excellent standard for sustainability, it has been designed to blend with adjacent structures of historic significance. After being appointed by John Sisk,...
As part of a large-scale renovation programme, The Glazerite UK Group and its Stockport-based customer Arctic Seal MCR, have supplied and installed 1,000 windows for a 260,000ft2 business community. Universal Square is an office campus based on the Piccadilly fringe of Manchester city centre, offering a professional service to more than 50 companies. As part of the refurbishment project, five...
CMS Window Systems was involved in the creation of the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries (DCL&G), which was crowned Scotland’s best building in the 2017 RIAS (The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) Awards. The company was appointed to deliver the window and curtain walling contract for the £12.4 million project by Fife Council and Fife Cultural Trust. The...
Kawneer’s AA100 zone-drained curtain walling and series 190 heavy-duty commercial entrance doors were used on the £20 million new global headquarters and R&D, training and production facility for Rayner Intraocular Lenses in Worthing, West Sussex. Rayner designs and manufactures intraocular lenses (IOL) and proprietary injection devices for use in cataract surgery, which are available in more than 80 countries. Its...
AB Glass has been awarded a contract by Willmott Dixon to carry out works at a new school development in north Devon. Route 39 Academy is a £multi-million two-storey development that will provide 700 places for students between 11 and 18 years of age. Willmott Dixon, which claims to be the country's only carbon neutral construction company, appointed AB Glass...