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Posted On - 15/03/2018
Wilburn Basin is a new housing development of nearly 500 homes in four blocks ranging from eight to 21 storeys around the historic River Irwell Basin, Manchester. 1,200 windows, including stacked/ribbon windows, plus 440 sets of French doors were specified in PVCU by main contractor Renaker. High levels of acoustic glazing were required on elevations that were located next to...
Posted On - 15/03/2018
Reynaers’ aluminium curtain wall system for facades and roofs has created new angles for a modern office building for French company Groupama in Charters, south west of Paris. Its building was designed by Agence Franc Gérard and covers 4,400m2, with an envelope in pre-oxidised copper panels. The staggered facade curtain walling, created from Reynaers’ CW 50 multi-level product, incorporates vivid...
Posted On - 15/03/2018
A £multi-million office space, recently developed in central Reading as part of a scheme to replace a 1980s five-storey building with a new Grade A commercial building, used systems from Hueck. The new build development attains a BREEAM excellent standard for sustainability, it has been designed to blend with adjacent structures of historic significance. After being appointed by John Sisk,...
Posted On - 15/03/2018
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...
Posted On - 15/03/2018
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...
Posted On - 08/03/2018
Kawneer’s AA100 zone-drained curtain walling and series 190 heavy-duty commercial entrance doors were used on the £20 million new global headquarters and R&D, training and production facility for Rayner Intraocular Lenses in Worthing, West Sussex. Rayner designs and manufactures intraocular lenses (IOL) and proprietary injection devices for use in cataract surgery, which are available in more than 80 countries. Its...
Posted On - 08/03/2018
AB Glass has been awarded a contract by Willmott Dixon to carry out works at a new school development in north Devon. Route 39 Academy is a £multi-million two-storey development that will provide 700 places for students between 11 and 18 years of age. Willmott Dixon, which claims to be the country's only carbon neutral construction company, appointed AB Glass...
Posted On - 07/03/2018
Reynaers’ aluminium curtain wall system for facades and roofs has created new angles for a modern office building for French company Groupama in Charters, south west of Paris. Its building was designed by Agence Franc Gérard and covers 4,400m2, with an envelope in pre-oxidised copper panels. The staggered facade curtain walling, created from Reynaers’ CW 50 multi-level product, incorporates vivid...
Posted On - 07/03/2018
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,...
Posted On - 06/03/2018
Jack Aluminium Systems’ products have been used as part of a full renovation of the Lamborghini Showroom on Old Brompton Road. Fabricated and installed by IDF Aluminium, the project was completed in late 2017 and Jack’s systems were chosen because of their security benefits. Both the TD68 Jack Door and the JD47 non-thermal system were used as part of the...
Posted On - 28/02/2018
A floor-to-ceiling glazing installation designed, specified and delivered by Glassolutions has helped create a balance between form and function at a new multi-use development in West Yorkshire. Located to the north-west of Leeds, Number One Kirkstall Forge is part of the 57-acre, £400 million Kirkstall Forge ‘urban village’ scheme, which on completion will offer Grade A office buildings, contemporary housing,...
Posted On - 27/02/2018
Fire glass from Pyroguard was recently used in the redevelopment of Estación AVE Granada, refurbished station on Spain’s AVE rail network. Faced with the challenge of designing a welcoming, light-filled and vibrant station, the use of natural daylight through high glass windows was chosen to deliver this vision. The specification outlined by the customer – installer Taviart Carlet – was...
Posted On - 27/02/2018
Architectural glazing systems by Kawneer helped to meet the ’critical’ acoustics for Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the first music academy to be built in the UK for 30 years. Kawneer’s AA100 zone/mullion-drained curtain walling and AA720 windows were used in the triple-height foyer and as hole-in-wall windows and rooflight alongside engineered acoustic baffles within secondary glazing reveals to further reduce sound...
Posted On - 27/02/2018
The Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire Hotel, which overlooks Leicester Square, is a five-star, 127-bedroom building features bespoke Crittall steel products, designed and supplied by Lightfoot Windows (Kent). The screens and doors are constructed from W20 double-glazed, polyester powder-coated components. The inherent strength of the steel makes possible the slimmest of frames and glazing beads to ensure the maximum amount of...
Posted On - 20/02/2018
Bristol’s Somerglaze Windows has completed the installation of a four-pane anthracite grey on white PatioMaster door on a home extension in Somerset. Somerglaze’s founder Gary Hembrow said: “The quality of the product and smoothness of operation on PatioMaster doors is far superior to other products on the market, so we did not hesitate to turn to them for this installation....
Posted On - 19/02/2018
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...
Posted On - 19/02/2018
Homelessness in Ealing is being alleviated thanks to homes built from former shipping containers that feature facades manufactured from Aluglaze panels. The development of 60 units, known as Meath Court, Hope Gardens, provides accommodation for nearly 290 people in Ealing. Ealing Council has 2,242 households residing in temporary accommodation and a steady decline in the availability of suitable options. Hope...
Posted On - 19/02/2018
Entec Design Services recently completed the building envelope of a new 83-bed Premier Inn in Middlesbrough using Exlabesa Building Systems’ ECW 50 curtain walling system and KSF Non Thermal Door system. Alan Clayton, technical director at Entec, has worked with Exlabesa Building Systems since the company was known as Kaye Building Systems. “[The ECW 50 curtain walling] provides a high-end...
Posted On - 15/02/2018
Entec Design Services recently installed Exlabesa Building Systems’ KSF Non Thermal Door system, which maximises the glazed area, as part of a £3 million refurbishment of a 50,000ft2 former BHS store in Middlesbrough. It has reopened as a Flannels, USC and Sports Direct store. Entec Design Services was established in 2004 and undertakes projects throughout the UK from its offices...
Posted On - 14/02/2018
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...
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