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Posted On - 23/05/2018
Bennett Architectural has been chosen to supply and install glazing for the new £10 million Aston University Student Union, which has a completion date of spring 2019. Designed by Warwick-based Robothams Architects, the two-storey steel-framed building will have full-height glazing and inside will host a range of facilities for the students. Working alongside main contractor Clegg Construction and Robothams, Bennett...
Posted On - 23/05/2018
When Solihull based architects Hasker Architects were designing a contemporary new glass facade office extension attached to a listed building, finding a satisfactory solution for the proposed glazing proved difficult until they consulted AGC Glass UK. The requirement was to build a highly reflective green, fully glazed structure to provide additional office accommodation at Meriden Hall, between Coventry and Meriden,...
Posted On - 23/05/2018
The Holiday Inn Express in the city centre features sets of three of Kawneer’s AA540 windows as fixed lights designed in L-shapes within checks of multi-coloured rainscreen cladding by KKA Architecture. The facade of the hotel in Birmingham city centre’s enterprise zone also used Kawneer’s AA110 zone-drained curtain walling with 65mm sightlines and series 190 heavy-duty commercial entrance doors. The...
Posted On - 16/05/2018
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a project for which Bennett Architectural supplied Kawneer windows and curtain walling, has been named as Project of the Year at the Rics West Midlands Awards at Grand Station in Wolverhampton. The ceremony celebrated the most impressive and community beneficial property schemes, with the Conservatoire also taking home the Design through Innovation Award. Bennett Architectural worked alongside Galliford Try to...
Posted On - 09/05/2018
6 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, integrates five buildings in a historic Edinburgh square which, according to the joint design team of CDA and Hoskins Architects, is a striking contemporary counterpoint to the surrounding architecture. The final design uses custom-made fins – some bronze and some stone – along with projecting lantern glass boxes and a grand double height entrance leading...
Posted On - 02/05/2018
Astraseal has helped Surrey-based installers Richmond Windows complete its first fire door installation. The Wellingborough-based fabricator also sent one of its surveyors to assist in what turned out to be a complicated survey. Once the door was delivered, Astraseal’s engineers joined the Richmond team on site to show the fitters exactly how the fire door needs to be installed, and...
Posted On - 02/05/2018
The modernisation of Glan Clwyd Hospital has won the Best Public Service Building award at the annual North Wales Building Excellence Awards. The award recognises any new building used for health, leisure, sports, tourism, defence, transport, prisons etc, and includes extensions, new builds and refurbishments. Glan Clwyd Hospital was project managed by Gleeds and delivered by Laing O’Rourke, with Bennett...
Posted On - 25/04/2018
A deal to design, manufacture and install all of the glazing on Glasgow’s new £100 million Atlantic Square development contrasts with gloomy recent news on Scotland’s economy and secures CMS Window Systems’ strongest ever order book, the company has reported. CMS Window Systems has landed a contract worth over £10 million for the prestigious Atlantic Square development in Glasgow which...
Posted On - 18/04/2018
The process of upgrading windows in homes that are listed, in a conservation area or area of natural beauty, can become expensive and a technical labyrinth when applying for permission, south east-based fabricator Window Designs has reported. The company highlighted the case of Karen and Mark Cheater, owners of the Langtons Guest House on Eastbourne seafront, who recently discovered just...
Posted On - 11/04/2018
G-Smatt has completed the installation of what is believed to be one of the world's largest installations of an architectural LED media glass facade – on the Coex Convention and Exhibition Centre in Samseong-dong of Gangnam-gu district in Seoul, South Korea. The project took three months to install and was completed in December 2017. There were a number of challenges...
Posted On - 04/04/2018
The mullion-only VS-1 glazing system from Glassolutions, which reduces sightlines and maximises interior brightness, has been installed at a new community hub in south-east London to create a “light, bright social space with a welcoming ambience”. The Aperture building forms part of the regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula, an ambitious 150-acre project led by property developer Knight Dragon which is seeking...
Posted On - 04/04/2018
Windows specifically designed by Kawneer for the healthcare sector are bringing four-fold benefits to a new £40 million mental health hospital, the company has announced. Kawneer’s AA3110HW windows maximise ventilation while minimising the risk of self harming. They feature anti-ligature elements such as a wraparound gasket that breaks into harmless pieces when there is an attempt to remove it, together...
Posted On - 04/04/2018
Oxford based G-Smatt recently installed its smart glass tunnel at a networking event, hosted by Monocom at Mini Plant Oxford. The tunnel, which is formed from G-Smatt's interactive media glass, measured 2.25m wide by 6.3m long and 2.5m tall, and provided a centre piece for the evening event which was attended by approximately 70 people from corporations including John Lewis,...
Posted On - 22/03/2018
Roof Assured by Sarnafil installer, Roofpro London, was appointed for a project in Holland Park by main contractor IMKO London. Roofpro installed the Sarnafil single ply membrane on a Grade 2 listed building converted into flats and owned by a charitable institute. The original 320m2 roof was made up of layers of felt and asphalt roofing materials, and was in...
Posted On - 21/03/2018
Chewton Bespoke Homes installed four Korniche 3.6m x 2.1m roof lanterns in the Solent Suite, Marsham Court Hotel, Bournemouth, as part of a major refurbishment. Darren Crain, owner of Chewton Bespoke Homes based in Highcliffe, Dorset, enquired at Made For Trade when he was looking for an aluminium roof lantern that suited the architectural qualities of the grand ball room...
Posted On - 20/03/2018
Swish installer Somerglaze Windows has completed a refurbishment project on a home in Somerset. The project was to replace 13 windows throughout the property, along with several doors. Gary Hembrow, director of Somerglaze Windows, said: “The customer had extended the property and we therefore needed to replace the windows throughout the main house to tie in with the new extension....
Posted On - 20/03/2018
Designed for key workers in the town, Orbit Housing’s Fordham House in Stratford-upon-Avon aims provide enhanced protection against noise, a superior maintenance and repair strategy, and additional facilities such as secure internal bike storage rooms. Much of the budget has come from the specification of Modus PVCU windows from Eurocell in place of the aluminium frames originally specified. “We saved...
Posted On - 19/03/2018
Rooflights from Lonsdale Metal Company have brought much-needed light into a west London home. Located in a conservation area, the property required updating by remodelling the kitchen and dining room that suffered poor connection to the rear garden. North facing, these rooms received little daylight from the modest sized windows. It was a dark and dingy space. Architect Simon Feneley’s...
Posted On - 16/03/2018
Wrightstyle has been appointed to work on a sixth Crossrail station. The contract at Paddington station will see the company fabricate bonded doors and blast-rated screens for Craft Interior. Devizes-based Wrightstyle is also supplying a range of blast and fire-rated doors, screens and curtain walling to Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations on what will become the...
Posted On - 16/03/2018
A bat-friendly window designed and manufactured by West Port has allowed a housing project to continue unhindered. A collaboration between Speller Metcalfe and Linden Homes, the Victory Fields development has seen the transformation of decommissioned Gloucestershire air force base Little Rissington into a collection of luxurious homes – but the venture hasn’t been without its challenges. While converting the base’s...
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