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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...
Wicona has designed a high-performance, unitised facade system incorporating two new door designs for Newfoundland Tower, the tallest residential tower to be built within the Canary Wharf Estate. Designed to perform well in challenging high-rise conditions, the doors feature ‘unrivalled’ weather performance, reduced sight lines and are aesthetically pleasing without detracting from the overall design intent of the building. Newfoundland...
Wicona has designed a high-performance, unitised facade system incorporating two new door designs for Newfoundland Tower, the tallest residential tower to be built within the Canary Wharf Estate. Designed to perform well in challenging high-rise conditions, the doors feature ‘unrivalled’ weather performance, reduced sight lines and are aesthetically pleasing without detracting from the overall design intent of the building. Newfoundland...
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...
Demand for TuffX’s Infinity rooflights has been steadily growing thanks to the product’s easy-fit design, the company has reported. Adrian of United Cloud Construction turned to TuffX when he needed a rooflight for a new Brighton-based extension where the homeowners wanted to maximise the natural light in their new space. The rooflights were installed on the low-pitch roof of a...
Ragdale Hall Spa in Leicestershire has just opened its new Twilight Bar, which showcases Aluk’s BSF70 bifolding door system in an innovative way. Installers Fearns of Carlton used the Aluk system to create open-out bifolding windows for the new 1920s-themed cocktail bar and lounge. These can be opened up completely on two sides to let guests at the destination spa...
More than 250 Profile 22 Optima Flush Tilt and Turn windows were manufactured and installed in a new-build contemporary apartment block on a prominent plot in Shirley, West Midlands. The new-build development comprises 27 two-bedroom apartments overlooking Shirley Park which offers approximately 37 acres of open parkland. The fabrication and installation contract was awarded to Kingfisher Windows, and the project...
By HB Fuller | Kömmerling. Ködispace 4SG warm edge system from HB Fuller | Kömmerling was recently used on the Newton project Munich’s Westend, an office property from the TÜV SÜD Gruppe München. What makes its ultra-modern facade stand out, among other things, are the sophisticated cold-bent, double-curved insulating glass units in the roof dome. The glass-roofed hall forms the...
FC Group is lighting up its newly built headquarters with liquid crystal glass, combining innovation, user comfort and sustainability. Looking to increase energy efficiencies with digitally controlled glazing at the six-storey FC-Campus complex in Karlsruhe, Germany, the building technology company partnered with Eyrise to install dynamic glass windows. Specially produced in a variety of organic shapes and in a distinctive blue colour, the windows provide instant solar shading that enhance occupant well-being. FC-Campus is the first office complex to be...
Clotted Cream R9 windows and doors from The Residence Collection, were recently installed in a property in a Staffordshire conservation area. A grained white internal finish was specified to keep things neutral, featuring polished chrome pear drop handles and black butt hinges. The front elevation of the house also featured Georgian bars to the windows, in keeping with the requirements...
Dudley’s Aluminium has begun work on a £multi-million project, which is part of the redevelopment of Cardiff’s Central Square. The Cardiff-based company secured the £6 million contract with ISG and will also be working with Rightacres, the developer of Central Square. The Interchange is a modern build with a mixed use set of environments: in addition to housing the capital’s...
TuffX recently supplied the glass when Planet Roofing recently upgraded its new premises, including all the windows. The new factory premises in Basildon, Essex, was completely refurbished this year, including new windows to the front and side to complement the building’s new black cladding. TuffX’s Ambi Ultra glass was chosen for the windows on the south-facing aspect of the building....
Edgetech’s Super Spacer has played a crucial role in the construction of one of the Middle East’s most spectacular new buildings. The celebrated product was used to deliver the 5,500m2 glass facade of the Qatar National Library. The 42,000m2 structure is home to over a million books, and 500,000 digital editions. The library’s most valuable volumes are kept in a...
Endurance Doors has released a new customer case study, featuring Instagram influencer Vicky Burdon, who chose a stylish new solid core Fuji door from the Urban Collection. Vicky’s Instagram account, House on the Crescent, boasts over 47.3K followers and she’s highly influential when it comes to home improvements, colour and product design as she looks to extend and renovate her...
Mr and Mrs Rose have transformed their large T-shaped conservatory using the Ultraroof tiled roof system. Ultraframe explains how their new room is light and bright thanks to full length glazing panels, as well as being as warm as the rest of their home, all year round. After deciding to upgrade their conservatory, Mr and Mrs Rose began to carry...
Putting sustainable construction at its core, the first Enterprise Zone office development at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park (Lusep) features Technal aluminium curtain walling, windows and doors systems. All made from Hydro Circal 75R, which uses a minimum of 75% post-consumer recycled aluminium, the facade contributes to reducing the building’s carbon footprint and its BREEAM Very Good rating. Designed...
Following their use on the first phase of the largest regeneration project in the north-west, architectural glazing systems from Kawneer are now being used on the second. The first phase of the Middlewood Locks project in Manchester by developer Scarborough International Properties features Kawneer’s AA100 zone-drained curtain walling, AA130 brise soleil and AA720 external doors on the ground floors of...
Indeglas has completed a £1.04 million contract for Do & Co, a global gourmet entertainment and airline catering company based at Heathrow’s Segro Park. Indeglas designed, supplied, and installed specialist glass screens to meet the demands of hot kitchens, food prep, packaging, cold storage and menu demonstration areas. Jeanette MacIntyre, managing director of Indeglas, said: “Before Covid 19 struck, Indeglas...
Wrightstyle has completed a tourism project in the Kingdom of Jordan. The contract was for the supply of WSL 50 series FR doors and partitions, providing 120 minutes of fire protection. Wrightstyle’s systems were installed in a hotel in Ayla Marina Village, close to the Jordanian city of Aqaba, on the country’s Red Sea coast. The Jordan contract is the...
Sidey recently manufactured and installed over 200 flush tilt and turn windows for a low-rise, contemporary new apartment block in Edinburgh, which forms part of Places for People’s Waterfront 3 development. Designed by Reiach and Hall Architects, the contemporary project provided 34 homes for affordable rent built using a mix of traditional and timber-framed modular construction. Waterfront 3 is the...