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Posted On - 03/10/2017
Wrightstyle has added to its transport portfolio by supplying a range of systems for five new Crossrail stations across London. The company is supplying to Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations on what will become the Elizabeth Line. The systems include blast-rated curtain walling, structurally glazed screens, and fire-rated and ballistic screens. The line is expected to...
Posted On - 02/10/2017
Airtightness and weather sealing were the priorities when it came to installing the windows at the new headquarters of telephone answering service Moneypenny. Tremco Illbruck provided a detail for the perimeter of the windows and supplied three products that helped ensure the performance of the £15m project met requirements. Designed by AEW Architects, the 91,000ft2, three storey office complex in...
Posted On - 27/09/2017
When architect dhp was asked to design the new accommodation for St Richard Reynolds Catholic College in Twickenham, its brief was to turn an historic Edwardian school building into a cutting-edge education facility. Led by main contractor Graham Construction, work is now underway on a three-storey building at the centre of the site, which will wrap around the rear of...
Posted On - 14/09/2017
While large, timber-framed sash windows are one of the most recognisable and desirable features of Georgian architecture, they can offer poor energy performance. This was the challenge facing St Gerard’s school, a Catholic co-educational school in Bray, County Wicklow, near Dublin, which was founded in 1918 and still uses its original building. The building pre-dates the school itself and is...
Posted On - 12/09/2017
The landmark appearance of an 85-year-old Merseyside grammar school has been retained, thanks to the close replication of more than 200 unique and distinctive timber windows in the Veka M70 system from Glazerite UK Group and local installer K2 Aluminium Systems. The windows were very much a part of the character of the 1930s-built Wirral Grammar School for Boys and...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
London-based Keepout Windows completed a major project that has seen a commercial building converted into modern apartments. Technology House is set over two floors and Keepout Windows installed 150 tilt and turn windows at the property, which were dual functioning and dual-coloured PVCU – anthracite grey finish on the outside. Keepout also supplied several PVCU french doors, which were open-out...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
Hueck has supplied its aluminium systems for a 699-bedroom student accommodation building overlooking Olympic Way’s approach to Wembley Stadium. Unite Olympic Way is a £50m development offering en-suite and studio rooms in the regenerated area of Wembley, home to the football stadium and newly built retail outlet centre. It also offers quick links to universities, with central London less than...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
Technal fabricator Glasshus designed, manufactured and installed a major glazing package, which included a double-storey facade featuring the use of the MX SG structural glazing system, on a flagship campus for Sunderland College. The campus was completed by BAM Construction in time for the start of the current academic year. Simon Tuckwell of Glasshus said: “This was our first project...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
CDW Systems recently supplied its products for a new waterfront restaurant in Guernsey; Octopus Bar and Restaurant is located on the south side of Havelet Bay in St Peter Port. CDW Systems supplied curtain walling and wide-span sliding doors for the project, which were installed by Stainless Steel Fabrications. Sapa’s Elegance 52 offers slim sightlines while maintaining the necessary strength...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
When Manchester-based Excell Trade Frames was awarded the contract to replace the windows in a student accommodation block for the Sanctuary Group, the company set to work immediately on the fabrication of the 1,100 Rehau frames required – as well as a plan to overcome the challenge of installing them in a 17-storey building, without access from inside. Wardley House...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
Brighton Bi-folds used Jack Aluminium System’s shopfront system to create a bifold door and a bifold window at an upmarket fish and chip shop in Worthing. “Our client was looking to open up the restaurant in two ways,” Phil Bedford, managing director at Brighton Bi-folds, said. “One to the outdoor veranda where diners enjoy their posh chippy tea, and another...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
Located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, the Elbphilharmonie is one of the largest and most acoustically advanced concert halls in the world and an outstanding example of modern architecture. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the building is a residential and cultural complex. The 108m-high building, which officially opened in January 2017, accommodates a philharmonic hall, a chamber...
Posted On - 06/09/2017
The former and future home of the Financial Times newspaper is being renovated to provide 270,000ft2 of office space, complete with a walkable large-span glass roof designed and supplied by Wrightstyle. Bracken House is a Grade 2 Listed office building, originally built between 1955 and 1958, and lies adjacent to the St Paul’s Cathedral Conservation Area of the City of...
Posted On - 04/09/2017
Steel Window Association member Cotswold Casements Company recently played a part in the phased £20 million refurbishment of both private rooms and the public spaces of the newly named The Principal Hotel in Manchester. Cotswold began by tackling the restaurant and winter garden where operatives installed large screens as well as double and single doors to divide what was once...
Posted On - 14/08/2017
The New George Green Library at the Nottingham University Campus was recently extended and refurbished with a new curtain wall facade supplied by Aluprof UK. Designed by Hopkins Architects the existing library with low ceiling heights has been extended to form a new Social Hub for students. Aluprof’s MB-SR50N Efekt curtain wall system was specified for the project which ensured...
Posted On - 10/08/2017
When Whipps Cross Hospital in East London required replacement windows that offered the benefits of new PVCU windows, but wouldn’t look out of place in the Grade II listed building, contractor SEH Commercial recommended Rehau’s Heritage range, a PVCU window with traditional sash window designs. Built just before the turn of the twentieth century as an infirmary, Whipps Cross Hospital...
Posted On - 10/08/2017
Rehau’s flush fitting casement windows were specified for the new prestigious Beaufort Park development in Hendon, north west London. Beaufort Park is one of the UK’s largest residential projects offering high-quality apartments and penthouses, surrounded by eight acres of landscaped parkland and courtyards. Developed by St George, Beaufort Park offers shops, bars, restaurants, a luxury spa and gym facilities for...
Posted On - 10/08/2017
Glazing systems from Kawneer were recently used on an award-winning distillery. Kawneer’s AA110 dry-glazed and externally-capped curtain walling and series 350 severe-duty commercial entrance doors feature on the £30 million Dalmunach Distillery on the banks of the River Spey in north Scotland. Designed by architects Archial Norr, the new distillery was commissioned by Chivas Brothers to replace the former Imperial...
Posted On - 09/08/2017
Dudley’s Aluminium has finished its work with Willmott Dixon to support the construction of the new £25m Islwyn High School, in Caerphilly. Dudley’s installed the aluminium facade and key structural fixtures at the site, including curtain walling, windows and doors. This project also represents the first collaboration between Dudley’s and Aluk. Islwyn School, which was built on the former Oakdale...
Posted On - 08/08/2017
Rehau windows and doors have been selected for a new major project secured by SEH Commercial in partnership with manufacturer Climatec. The Rosebank project of 37 new residential dwellings for the contractor Mizen Build will see 90 new Rehau Agila Sliding Doors installed at the site in north London, which will be complemented by Rehau’s Total70C windows. The two products...
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