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Posted On - 14/06/2018
Aluminium glazing specialists Bennett Architectural has teamed up with Sir Robert McAlpine to deliver glazing for Taylor’s of Harrogate tea shop’s head offices. Also working with Seven Architecture, Bennetts will supply and install Kawneer AA100 curtain walling and doors for the project. Lionel Grant, managing director at Bennett Architectural, said: “We have worked with Sir Robert McAlpine for a number...
Posted On - 13/06/2018
Two new extensions to Tonbridge School’s Smythe Library feature Kawneer glazing systems, installed as part of a £3.6 million refurbishment. Kawneer’s AA100 mullion-drained curtain walling with bespoke fin caps and AA541 concealed vents along with AA720 entrance doors feature on a new 13.5m high circulation tower topped by an AA100 rooflight. Specified by architects BDP to drive a simple natural...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
The newly completed 122 Waterloo Street development in the centre of Glasgow offers its occupants floor-to-ceiling glazing throughout, with almost uninterrupted views thanks to the latest Schueco curtain-walling system designed, manufactured and installed by Edinburgh-based facade specialist Charles Henshaw and Sons. The landmark building – which will be the Glasgow headquarters of global financial services firm Morgan Stanley – will...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Countryside UPVC of Ormskirk, has completed a project to install 88 Profile 22 vertical sliders into a private apartment block in a conservation area. Westcliffe Court in Southport, Merseyside, was built with softwood sash windows but its location near the sea meant the frames were wearing badly and needed to be repainted every three or four years. When the windows’...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
West Leigh, a member of the Steel Window Association, has manufactured and installed bespoke double glazed W20 frames for the refurbishment of a former brewery building in south London. The company carried out the £130K contract on the Plough Brewery, Wandsworth Road, for Marston Properties, working with specialist restoration architect, McDaniel Woolf in order to satisfy the concerns of local...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Crown Doors and Shutters has completed the installation of curtain walling, windows and thermal door systems as part of the refurbishment and extension of the main Harbour Master’s office on the River Tees. Andrew Mersh from Crown said: “The office stands on one side of the iconic transporter bridge on the river Tees, which made this a particularly high-profile project...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Fenetek recently installed the glazed curtain walling shopfront for the new Starbucks in Stockton-on-Tees. The project requirements included curtain walling glazed with high performance solar control glazing and a custom-designed ‘drive-through’ serving hatch incorporated into the build. James Lagan, director at Fenetek, said: “The products are well designed, easy to fabricate and easy to install.” In this case, Fenetek used...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Jack Aluminium Systems’ JD47 non-thermal shopfront system has been used by IDF Aluminium as part of an office refurbishment for shared workspace company The Office Group. The building, in Ecclestone Square near Victoria Station in London, has been fully refurbished by The Office Group, creating a modern, commercial space that will be let to a range of diverse workforces, including...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Windows from Sapa Building System feature on Newcastle’s latest student accommodation – Verde. This is the fourth and final phase of the £250 million Downing Plaza development, the largest planning application to be granted in Newcastle for a generation. The same Sapa systems were used on the first phase of the development. Located on the former Hill Court site adjacent...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
A distinctive mixed use residential project in the rapidly changing Greenwich Peninsula has made expressive use of windows and doors from Wicona, part of the Hydro group. The Fulmar is part of a collection of buildings within an extensive project by property developer Knight Dragon, aiming to create a new and vibrant district on the peninsula. The building was constructed...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
An office building once used by HM Customs and Excise is being transformed from a dull and dated office block into luxury apartments, as part of a project being delivered by Tustin Developments. The stark lines of the 1960s building, located in the Lancashire seaside town of Lytham St Anne’s, are being replaced with balconies and winter gardens, all drawn...
Posted On - 29/05/2018
Kent-based Adeva Home Improvements felt confident taking on its largest contract to date because it had the backing of Glazerite and Veka, director Geoff Dwyer said. The company installed almost 3,000 windows and doors as part of a £2.2 million refurbishment of Wandsworth’s Wimbledon Park Estate. Geoff said: “We might have had serious doubts about taking it on but Glazerite...
Posted On - 25/05/2018
Rehau’s Total70 window profiles, installed by Manchester’s Excell Trade Frames, have been chosen for a new free school in Manchester, which will provide education for up to 100 young people in the area with special learning needs. The Pioneer House High School has been built on the site of the former Piper Hill High School in Wythenshawe. The whole site...
Posted On - 23/05/2018
Bennett Architectural has been chosen to supply and install glazing for the new £10 million Aston University Student Union, which has a completion date of spring 2019. Designed by Warwick-based Robothams Architects, the two-storey steel-framed building will have full-height glazing and inside will host a range of facilities for the students. Working alongside main contractor Clegg Construction and Robothams, Bennett...
Posted On - 23/05/2018
When Solihull based architects Hasker Architects were designing a contemporary new glass facade office extension attached to a listed building, finding a satisfactory solution for the proposed glazing proved difficult until they consulted AGC Glass UK. The requirement was to build a highly reflective green, fully glazed structure to provide additional office accommodation at Meriden Hall, between Coventry and Meriden,...
Posted On - 23/05/2018
The Holiday Inn Express in the city centre features sets of three of Kawneer’s AA540 windows as fixed lights designed in L-shapes within checks of multi-coloured rainscreen cladding by KKA Architecture. The facade of the hotel in Birmingham city centre’s enterprise zone also used Kawneer’s AA110 zone-drained curtain walling with 65mm sightlines and series 190 heavy-duty commercial entrance doors. The...
Posted On - 16/05/2018
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a project for which Bennett Architectural supplied Kawneer windows and curtain walling, has been named as Project of the Year at the Rics West Midlands Awards at Grand Station in Wolverhampton. The ceremony celebrated the most impressive and community beneficial property schemes, with the Conservatoire also taking home the Design through Innovation Award. Bennett Architectural worked alongside Galliford Try to...
Posted On - 02/05/2018
The modernisation of Glan Clwyd Hospital has won the Best Public Service Building award at the annual North Wales Building Excellence Awards. The award recognises any new building used for health, leisure, sports, tourism, defence, transport, prisons etc, and includes extensions, new builds and refurbishments. Glan Clwyd Hospital was project managed by Gleeds and delivered by Laing O’Rourke, with Bennett...
Posted On - 25/04/2018
A deal to design, manufacture and install all of the glazing on Glasgow’s new £100 million Atlantic Square development contrasts with gloomy recent news on Scotland’s economy and secures CMS Window Systems’ strongest ever order book, the company has reported. CMS Window Systems has landed a contract worth over £10 million for the prestigious Atlantic Square development in Glasgow which...
Posted On - 04/04/2018
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...
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