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A major live arts venue, that in its heyday hosted The Beatles, Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones and Cilla Black, was restored to its art deco glory with the help of Crittall windows. The Globe, Stockton, is the biggest live entertainment venue between Leeds and Newcastle and will re-open shortly with a capacity of 1,650 people seated or up to...
A&D Joinery recently manufactured and fitted 43 new arched Optima windows for the sympathetic landmark refurbishment of Hindley Cemetery Lodge in Hindley, Greater Manchester. The homeowner was keen to preserve the original building architecture and the windows needed to fit into the double-arched stone facade of the building. Following a detailed feasibility study undertaken by A&D Joinery, the ageing timber...
In 2020, Rehau’s Rio Flush Fit window system was selected for a large-scale build at Middleton St George in the northeast of England. The results were so successful that housebuilder Homes by Carlton (HBC) now plans to use Rehau’s product at two other landmark sites. The housebuilder has a long-standing relationship with Chatsworth Windows, the largest in-house manufacturer of windows...
New foam sealant tapes and a thermal insulating and load bearing bracket support system from ISO Chemie were specified for a world-first sustainable office retrofit at Cambridge University. The move sees Winframer units and ISO Bloco tape being installed at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Entopia Building in Regent Street, Cambridge, in an initiative to bring...
Edgetech’s Super Spacer TriSeal Premium Plus was used on the Curve, a 24,400m2, seven-storey office complex in Saint-Denis, Paris that accommodates more than 1,000 businesses, restaurants, and fitness centres. Considered to be at the forefront of the French capital’s sustainability revolution, Saint-Denis will be the site of the athlete’s village at the Paris Olympics, which is being built to stringent...
Stellar aluminium windows and doors were installed in a £2.5 million newly renovated property in St Brelade, Jersey. The modern detached four-bedroom home was fitted with 14 Stellar aluminium fully flush casement windows, two sets of Stellar double doors, and two single Stellar doors. All Stellar products were manufactured by Capital Windows of Uxbridge, and fitted by local installer Window...
Dylan’s restaurant, in the Victorian Welsh coastal town of Criccieth, looked to maximise the comfort of its seating areas to make the most of its outdoor space as lockdown restrictions eased. Dylan’s added a frameless glass balustrade to the terrace, to protect customers from coastal breezes without negatively impacting on the views; TuffX supplied 30 panels of 15mm toughened safety...
Over 300 Optima casement windows and 60 doors from Profile 22 were manufactured and installed in a new 85-bed care home and 45 assisted living apartments in Sutton Coldfield. The contract was awarded to Sutton Designs in Kingstanding, Birmingham, with manufacturing undertaken by Central Window Systems in West Bromwich. All windows were fitted with open-out restrictors for the safety of...
Tru Plastics transformed a home in Coalville, Leicestershire using Freefoam Fortex Double Shiplap cladding, in Sage Green. The couple had lived at the property for more than 10 years, and had both recently retired. They wanted to improve the look of the house and install insulation but also wanted a low maintenance solution. They researched various cladding options online and...
Quickslide recently supplied heritage windows and doors for the redevelopment of the historic Featherstone Hall, the last of four great houses that once dominated the Yorkshire village of North Featherstone near Pontefract Over the past two years, Featherstone Hall and its surrounding grounds have been transformed into 15 contemporary family homes, each reflecting the prominence and grandeur of the historical...
Aluminium fenestration products from Senior Architectural Systems were recently installed on accommodation at the Arts University Bournemouth. Senior’s low U-value Pure aluminium windows and Pure Slide aluminium doors were installed alongside the thermally efficient SF52 aluminium curtain wall system, with the scheme achieving a ‘Very Good’ BREEAM rating. Working alongside supply chain partners Morgan Sindall, Design Engine Architects and fabricators...
Ultraframe recently supplied a Classic Roof as part of a modern conservatory extension to a thatched property in the Surrey countryside. Since the existing property was an unusual building, it was crucial that whatever new space was added would complement the existing home, as well as being a light and airy space that linked the home with the surrounding countryside....
247 white Spectus casement windows, 25 French doors and 10 residential doors were manufactured and installed on a new 36-home Ashwood Homes development in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. The newbuild contract was awarded to Spectus fabricator Highseal Manufacturing Company based in Scunthorpe. Holly Donaldson of Highseal Manufacturing Company said: “We are committed to quality excellence throughout the business, and our experience and...
Two variants of Kawneer’s AA110 curtain walling system, as well as window vents, doors and roof glazing, feature on the International Convention Centre for Wales at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales. Kawneer’s AA110 zone-drained curtain walling, with 65mm sightlines, was used for most of screens to conference rooms, entrances and circulation areas, while the mullion-drained equivalent was...
Saint-Gobain Glassolutions recently supplied glazing panels to the University of Sheffield as part of a sustainable modernisation programme. New spaces at the faculty of engineering at the University of Sheffield were opened in the spring of 2020, bringing together modern laboratories, offices, lecture halls and communication facilities. As the centrepiece of the new Engineering Heartspace, a central atrium was created...
FH Brundle recently supplied decking and balustrading to what was once the beating heart of industrial Britain: a 127-mile artery bringing commerce and prosperity to businesses across northern England. More than a century on from its Victorian heyday, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal is more about leisure and tourism than heavy industry, and the customer’s vision was for lush, landscaped...
Senior Architectural Systems delivered the full aluminium fenestration packages to two new contracts in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The company provided its Pure Slide aluminium doors, SPW600 commercial doors, SPW600 aluminium windows, and SF52 aluminium curtain wall for the new Great Central development. Comprising 131 residential apartments and two commercial units, the scheme ranges from four to nine storeys in height...
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Lipa) has created a new performance space by enclosing an outdoor courtyard using a large, structurally glazed rooflight. Established by Sir Paul McCartney and co-founder Mark Featherstone-Witty in 1996, the institute was created following a £multi-million refurbishment of a grammar school attended by the former Beatle in the 1950s, the Liverpool Institute High School...
A balustrade using glass from TuffX was recently installed on a large split-level terrace on a property in Leeds. The detached property was finished in light rendering with contrasting dark window frames, including expansive glass sliding doors across the rear which open onto a split-level terrace dropping away to the grounds beyond. A solution was needed to make sure the...
Dudley’s Aluminium has secured projects with a combined worth of over £250,000 with two new clients. The first is the TVR Showroom in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent. TVR is a British manufacturer of high-end sports cars and will produce the Griffiths model at its new home in south Wales. Dudley’s will be working with Jones Brothers (Henllan) on the build...