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Dudley’s Aluminium has secured another key project in Cardiff’s city centre, working on the multistorey car park in Central Quay. Working with Goldbeck Construction, for Rightacres Property and Network Rail, Dudley’s will be installing curtain walling and doors on the build of the car park in the centre of Cardiff, as part of the Central Quay project which also features...
Quickslide has supplied 557 vertical sliders for a new build housing development in Burgess Hill, Sussex that was completed over four phases. Developer, Croudace Homes, chose Ideal Window Solutions to help complete the new community of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes and, in turn, Ideal Window Solutions turned to Quickslide to fulfil the brief. “We're a glazing installation...
Welsh fabricator, Dudley’s Aluminium, has secured a new project for a joint education campus in Fairwater. Dudley’s is working in collaboration with ISG Construction on the multimillion-pound project which will facilitate the construction of three new build schools for Cantonian High School, Riverbank School and Woodlands High School, all situated on a single site. The development will be Net Zero...
Stedek & The Residence Collection have helped a ‘cutting-edge’ newbuild development achieve outstanding thermal efficiency. 71 Old Penk in Cannock, Staffordshire, consists of three high-tech, eco-friendly homes that have been designed to be exceptionally sustainable. They incorporate solar panels, electric charging points, ground-source heat pumps, and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. Crucial to their fabric first approach to energy efficiency,...
Modus by Listers has been specified on an 87-plot newbuild development in Essex, thanks to its low U-values and slim sightlines. Approximately 700 Modus windows, in a mixture of white and coloured foils, will be manufactured by Listers and installed by Allglass (Anglia) for a local housebuilder over a 14-month period beginning in December 2023. Listers’ Gallery 44 composite doors...
Lincolnshire manufacturer, Tradeglaze, has been selected as a finalist in the ‘Product Supplier of the Year’ category in the 2022 Greater Lincolnshire Construction and Property Awards. Organised by the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce, the annual awards bring together the best of the construction and property industry in Greater Lincolnshire every year to celebrate businesses with ‘vision, innovation and support’ for...
Dudley’s Aluminium has secured a project, worth over £800,000, at the University of Plymouth. Working with BAM Construction, the fabricator will install Kawneer capped curtain walling, windows, commercial doors and Louvreshield, as well as automatic doors, at the New Engineering and Design Facility at the university’s main city centre campus. The low energy use facility will accommodate the School of...
Rase Steels appointed Tradeglaze to supply double glazing at the Laceby Manor Golf Course resort, set on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The Laceby Manor spa and gym will feature an indoor-outdoor pool, thermal suite with a bathing room, a natural swimming pond, and a new restaurant with a local seasonal menu. The project will be delivered in two...
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...
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...
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...
Central Window Systems, recently assisted Excel 2000 Windows in a £2.5 million curtain wall installation in Rubery. The two companies worked together to design and manufacture an aluminium curtain walling system for a group of five residential housing blocks, which were previously fitted with open balconies and cladding. Once the original cladding had been stripped off, a curtain wall system...
A total of 1,667 Optima casement windows and entrance doors from Profile 22 were installed in 170 high quality newbuild homes at Mulberry Park in Bath, Somerset. The new windows and doors completed the third phase of the development. Mulberry Park in Bath is a contemporary development of 700 high-quality homes, community facilities and open spaces delivered by housing association...
Frithsden Construction completed a Georgian period-style newbuild with heritage vertical sliders supplied by Quickslide. The 5,500ft2, five-bedroom brick-and-block build in Little Gaddenden, Herts, was created over three floors using Flemish handmade bricks for the outer wall: just one example of the attention to detail paid to the design and build by Frithsden Construction’s husband-and-wife team Anthony and Julie Hayes. The...
Victorian Sliders recently provided EcoSlide PVCU sash windows on a project where the owners were torn between traditional timber windows and PVCU casement windows. Tom and Emma’s elegant double-fronted Victorian semi in Whitland, West Wales, dates back to 1902, and had timber windows that were old, draughty, single-glazed, and past their prime. When it came to choosing what to replace...
Performance Window Fabrications (PWF) has completed two heritage projects in the West Midlands. The fabricator designed, supplied and installed aluminium doors at the conversion of a four-storey 1930s art deco former cinema into 38 premium apartments in Lichfield city centre, Staffordshire. Throughout the project PWF worked with the local conservation officer, bringing part of the city’s rich heritage back to...
Fentrade Aluminium recently manufactured and supplied a range of commercial products for a renovation project at Ysgol Pontrhydfendigaid School in Ystrad Meurig, near Aberystwyth. The project involved creating new entrance screens into the main building and various classrooms to improve the school environment for the children. The screens were manufactured using a mixture of low-rise Kestrel aluminium curtain walling, thermally...
Shelforce has received its first major fire door order: 210 fire doors set to be supplied and installed to three blocks of flats. The flats – Home Meadow House, Hollypiece House and Coppice House – are located on Pemberley Road in Acocks Green, Birmingham, and support retirement and sheltered housing. The project is being headed by construction giant Wates, which...
Fentrade recently manufactured 13 sets of single and double entrance doors for the refurbishment of the University of Bath’s main campus. The project’s main contractor was Bray and Slaughter and the window contractor was Fentrade customer EWS Facade. Chris Reeks, director of Fentrade, said: “We were delighted to be asked to manufacture the doors for this high-profile project and it...
