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As part of a large-scale renovation programme, The Glazerite UK Group and its Stockport-based customer Arctic Seal MCR, have supplied and installed 1,000 windows for a 260,000ft2 business community. Universal Square is an office campus based on the Piccadilly fringe of Manchester city centre, offering a professional service to more than 50 companies. As part of the refurbishment project, five...
CMS Window Systems was involved in the creation of the new Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries (DCL&G), which was crowned Scotland’s best building in the 2017 RIAS (The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) Awards. The company was appointed to deliver the window and curtain walling contract for the £12.4 million project by Fife Council and Fife Cultural Trust. The...
The preservation of original window features in listed buildings, and those within conservation areas, is closely monitored by local authorities – and planning regulations often stipulate the like-for-like repair, refurbishment or replacement of timber frames. Once it was thought that only timber frames could achieve this appearance. But thanks to advancements in the design of PVCU windows, particularly vertical sliders,...
Roseview’s Ultimate Rose has helped Truro Windows give a Cornish property an ‘authentic’ facelift. A customer’s ageing and draughty timber sash window in a Kenwyn cul-de-sac needed replacing – but the new product had to replicate the original’s arched design down to the finest details and match the feel and character of the surrounding estate. The owners didn’t want to...
Synseal fabricator Network Upvc Systems is supplying products for fully functional homes built out of storage containers, in a third of the time of a typical new build. The idea was devised by Michael Philpot at VRC Homes, who uses a hybrid modular system based around a galvanised steel frame to build affordable homes, which can help developers use their...
K2 Aluminium Systems recently completed a redevelopment project in Halifax for Leeds Beckett University Business Centre. The project consisted of 125 windows as part of the larger £multi-million transformation programme on the old weaving mill located on Horton Street in Halifax. The architectural aluminium company installed Veka’s M70 frames in grey, which were manufactured by Glazerite’s Bolton division. Sales manager...
Installer Alan Gicquel needed to swap his van for a boat in order to replace the timber-framed windows for three remote island properties. Les Ecrehous is a small archipelago of islets located six miles off the north east coast of Jersey, and just eight miles from mainland France. Declared a RAMSAR site in 2005 to protect the habitat of the...
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...
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...
Roseview’s Heritage Rose window has received an endorsement from interior designer Claire Totman. Claire, who worked in interior design for a decade before starting her own practice in 2016, used the product on a high-end renovation project in Cobham, Surrey. Milwater is a period residential property dating back to the mid-18th century, which today sits in Cobham’s conservation area. Charged...
The Clement Windows Group has manufactured and installed steel windows from its W20 range for the Comet Works in Birmingham’s Princip Street. The original warehouse buildings in the city’s former Gun Quarter have been converted by building re-animator Javelin Block into 20 residential units, including lofts, apartments and mews houses. The Clement W20 range was specified for its ability to...
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...
Dempsey Dyer recently helped a customer complete a lucrative job in an Oxfordshire conservation area. Windmill Windows had been called on to refurbish a property in a historically sensitive part of the county. Together with the homeowner, the company decided to replace the existing windows with Deceuninck’s heritage flush sash. However, the project hit a problem. While impressed with the...
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...
A family from Cheshire decided to stay put and renovate their home at an idyllic and convenient rural location instead of moving house to find more open plan family space. The family has lived at the 1930s semi-detached home in Sandbach for 17 years and wanted to build a single storey extension to the rear of the property. The architect,...
Glazerite provided Halo FlushSash PVCU windows for a semi-detached property in a rural location. Nottingham-based Fearns of Carlton were chosen by Cherhire Barns Homes to supply eight Halo FlashSash windows in balsalt grey on white, after being impressed with the authentic appearance of the frames combined with the exceptional performance. The colour was selected from a range of 29 foils...
Dempsey Dyer now offers the Invisifold slide and swing door. The Invisifold system converts a conventional patio or french door into a flexible sliding and folding door; every sash can be operated independently to create partial walkways and provide ventilation anywhere along the opening. The Invisifold is available in a wide range of colours and woodgrain finishes. The hinges and...
When Apeer heard that a substantial ultra-contemporary house was being planned not far from its head office, the opportunity to showcase its Lumi system seemed too good to miss. Fortunately, the owner of the property agreed, and the finished house has surpassed all expectations. “When we began creating the Lumi concept, our mind’s eye put it in a high-value, bespoke...
BM Aluminium launched its LogiKal InfoServer software module at the FIT Show, promising aluminium fabricators a straightforward route to a paperless factory with integrated fabrication production control. Now, it has completed a pilot installation of InfoServer at Newbury Commercial Glazing in Warwick to demonstrate just how much value the new software can offer. InfoServer allows users to send work orders...
Express Trade Frames in Fleetwood, Lancashire, is the first fabricator of Exlabesa’s new Xlafold aluminium bifold door system that was recently launched. One of Express Trade Frames’ first installations was EFL League One football team Fleetwood Town FC. Express Trade Frames recommended using the Xlafold bifolding door system from Exlabesa for the project. It has the slim sightlines of an...