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Posted On - 09/11/2017
London Fire Brigade has completed a PFI project to renovate and update nine fire stations across the city with new facilities that deliver excellent energy performance – thanks in part to glazing from Pilkington UK. Under a £51.5 million PFI project, the consortium Blue 3 worked with architect BDP to design the stations, to provide the quality and flexibility of...
Posted On - 09/11/2017
Hueck has supplied its products to a large-scale, mixed-use development in Elephant and Castle. The development, named Elephant One, is situated in a prime location: close to the Elephant and Castle tube station and next to Elephant Park, offering convenient links to the city centre and great surroundings. Elephant One comprises three buildings and includes 374 new homes and 272...
Posted On - 08/11/2017
CMS Window Systems have played a key role in helping Church Lukas architects and main contractor Graham Construction to deliver an new 330-unit student accommodation building in the heart of Glasgow. The £20 million Elgin Place development at 240 Bath Street for iQ Student Accommodation takes its name from the former Elgin Place Congregational Church which previously occupied the site...
Posted On - 08/11/2017
The Window Company (Contracts) has always claimed to never cut corners on site, and its latest recruit Tom Millar has conveniently demonstrated that on a recent project. At Eldon School in Enfield, where timber windows were being replaced with PVCU, Tom hand-finished the corners on every single new arched head window being fitted so that they exactly matched the timber...
Posted On - 06/11/2017
Rehau PVCU windows have been specified for three schools in the south east of England. The Rehau Total70c top hung, outward opening casement windows in slate grey finish, were recommended for the installations at the Harris Primary Academy Shortlands (Bromley, Kent), Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred (Grays, Essex), and Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich (London) schools by contractor SEH Commercial....
Posted On - 03/11/2017
Scottish dealership firm John Clark Motor Group has opened a new Pentland Jaguar Land Rover showroom site in Edinburgh. Bennett Architectural was assigned to install Pilkington planar glass, Kawneer architectural windows and curtain walling for the development on Whitehill Road near Fort Kinnaird. Lionel Grant, managing director at Bennett Architectural, said: “The curtain walling and architectural windows our team have...
Posted On - 02/11/2017
Wicona has worked with Glassolutions to deliver the glazing and facades package for One Bedford Avenue, a flagship mixed use development in central London. The 115,000ft2 mixed-use office and retail development at One Bedford Avenue replaces two outdated office buildings on the corner of London’s Tottenham Court Road. The design concept for the building from Bennetts Associates was to create...
Posted On - 02/11/2017
When the specification for a new-build school called for a colour coding of windows with unusual bespoke reveals and cills, the solution came in a combination of PVCU windows set in made-to-order aluminium surrounds. Birkenhead-based K2 Aluminium Systems (also an established PVCU installer) suggested pressed aluminium cills and exterior reveals around Veka frames from Glazerite. Palmerston School, Liverpool, is a...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Vista Panels is working with Spektaglaze on the refurbishment of student accommodation in the grounds of Liverpool’s iconic Anglican Cathedral. Dwell Student Living has embarked on a facelift programme of works to include new windows and composite doors on the site. Vista is supplying 70 XtremeDoors front and back for Dwell’s Cathedral Campus. Finished in black with a matching Eurocell...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Following a successful bid to the Education and Skills Funding Agency Condition Improvement Fund, a grammar school is reaping the aesthetic and practical benefits of Veka’s Matrix 70 windows, which have been installed throughout the 85-year-old building. The windows are PAS 24 and Secured by Design compliant and able to achieve U-values as low as 0.8W/m2K. When Wirral Grammar School...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
The tenants of Barton Village, Eccles, have benefited from thousands of Veka windows and will see a drop in energy bills after the environmentally friendly £14.3 million makeover. The four 1960s tower blocks, which took a total of 12 months to refurbish, consist of 290 energy efficient homes – with many of the one and two bedroom flats now having...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Dudley’s Aluminium is currently involved in the construction of the new Computational Foundry Building at Swansea University, in partnership with Willmott Dixon Construction. Dudley’s agreed the £760K contract to install key structural fixtures at the site, including curtain walling, windows and doors, with the project estimated to be completed in spring 2018. The contractor previously completed a £2.2 million contract...
Posted On - 16/10/2017
Aluminium products from Real Aluminium were used on an exclusive new property development on the edge of Bath. The selection of Real Aluminium windows, doors and a lantern roof were chosen by Bristol-based installer Panoramic to complete the £multi-million scheme, which sits south of the River Avon and close to the outstanding Beechen Cliff Boys’ School. The developer – Annexe...
Posted On - 16/10/2017
Hazlemere Commercial has helped transform the head offices of a major UK construction company on the very busy Cressex Business Park in High Wycombe. Working for office design specialists Vibe Business Interiors, Hazlemere replaced every window in the building as part of the £1.4 million renovation project. The whole refurbishment project had to be completed in just 16 weeks, in...
Posted On - 16/10/2017
Hazlemere Commercial was involved with the renovation of John Mason School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Established in 1960 as a grammar school, the school is named after Sir John Mason, a 16th century MP, diplomat and spy for the then King, who was born in the area. The Buckinghamshire firm was tasked with supplying and installing replacement windows and doors for...
Posted On - 04/10/2017
Glasstec Systems was recently involved in the installation of a shopfront on Smiths Building in London, providing knowledge and guidance on structural glazing and metalwork. Glasstec Systems was involved from an early stage, having worked from initial concept drawings to final design. The company was also solely responsible for creation and installation of the complete glass shopfront and metalwork with...
Posted On - 03/10/2017
Ninety-four Fieger louvre windows installed at the Banbridge Health and Care Centre allow natural light and ventilation to permeate the building and provide visual connection with landscaped courtyards and gardens. The building has been recognised by Riba with national and regional awards for its design that engages with the surrounding landscape. Architects Kennedy FitzGerald in association with Avanti Architects faced...
Posted On - 03/10/2017
Dudley’s Aluminium has made considerable progress on a relocation project with BAM Construction, supporting the construction of the new Nishkam School building, in the London borough of Hounslow. Dudley’s secured the £600,000 contract to install key structural fixtures at the site, including Kawneer Series AA100 capped curtain walling, Kawneer Series AA540 standard and fire-rated windows, Kawneer Series 720 manual doors;...
Posted On - 03/10/2017
Hueck has supplied its windows and doors for a new glass-clad London landmark that boasts excellent green credentials. Hoola is a residential development of 360 individually designed homes set across two glass towers in Tidal Basin Street. The eco-friendly buildings use recycled energy and achieve a 57% reduction in CO2 emissions against building regulations. They are also super insulated, with...
Posted On - 03/10/2017
Bowater Projects’ technical advice and knowledge has been critical to the success of Linc’s commitment to upgrade its residential scheme Llys Yr Efail in Blaenau Gwent, the company has reported. Llys Yr Efail is a housing scheme for older people and contains 35 self-contained one and two bedroom flats over three floors, as well as a lower ground floor comprising...
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