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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...
Posted On - 09/02/2018
Rebecca Cope, Reynaers’ marketing manager describes how, on the edge of open countryside with stunning panoramic views, a stone-built farmhouse uses a number of the company’s products. Thanks to a variety of aluminium window and doors, large expanses of glazing blur the transition from interior to exterior spaces of Burnedge Barn, offering a feeling of freedom and a connection to...
Posted On - 08/02/2018
Bennett Architectural has been selected to work on the Next store at Selly Oak’s new retail park. The project, which encompasses 250,000ft2, will also host various retail outlets including Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer as well as student accommodation. Bennetts will supply and install Pilkington planar solutions for the Next branch. Lionel Grant, managing director at Bennett Architectural, said: “The...
Posted On - 08/02/2018
Spectus windows and doors were recently installed in two refurbished holiday lodges at the Penllwyn Lodge site between Newtown and Welshpool in Powys. The 19 individually designed lodges are in 30 acres of woodland. Phil Jones of Penllywn Lodges has been installing Spectus window and doors in his lodges for over ten years. “The prestigious Penllwyn lodges are individually designed...
Posted On - 08/02/2018
When contractors SEH Commercial were asked to specify the windows and doors for the Beaumont House retirement complex on the Essex coast, it opted for grey laminated Total70 windows and doors from Rehau. Beaumont House is a new build apartment block of 60 one and two-bedroom apartments, in the historic coastal town of Walton-on-the-Naze. Architects EJ Taylor created a contemporary...
Posted On - 08/02/2018
Windows, doors and curtain walling by CMS Window Systems have helped to deliver the extensive new Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary – a 63,500m2 garden hospital designed to meet the increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs of the region's population. The new £212 million hospital located on the outskirts of Dumfries is described as the garden hospital to reflect its pastoral setting...
Posted On - 08/02/2018
Bennett Architectural will undertake its biggest DfMA project to date, providing glazing for the £350 million New Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, south Wales. Bennetts will work alongside main contractor Laing O’Rourke, supplying and installing Kawneer AA100 curtain walling systems, doors and windows. Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) will be used to add glazing to concrete panels off-site at Laing...
Posted On - 07/02/2018
Colin Torley, sales and operations director of the Saveheat Group, discusses recent developments in the heritage sector. I read with interest Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim report on the review of the building regulations, in particular the references to them “not being fit for purpose” and “confusing rules and a lack of enforcement leaving them open to abuse”. This is equally...
Posted On - 06/02/2018
Architect and contractor worked together to bring steel-style Kawneer windows to the £17 million rescue of a partly derelict college – now the 1,680-student secondary school and sixth form Heron Hall Academy. Kawneer’s GT70 slimline renovation windows as fixed lights and top-hung casements were complemented by AA100 curtain walling, AA541 fixed lights and top-hung casement windows and series 190 doors...
Posted On - 06/02/2018
Xtralite provided rooflights to a popular tourist attraction in the heart of London that has benefitted from a dramatic £24 million renovation which has transformed the building and its interior. The National Army Museum, situated in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, is home to army memorabilia, and a series of new displays and interactive exhibits...
Posted On - 06/02/2018
CMS Window Systems has completed a major fenestration contract as part of a project to create a new state-of-the-art primary school in the Scottish Borders that has brought new life to an unused B-listed former high school. The new £8.6 million Duns Primary School and educational campus enabled the school to move from its existing premises in the town, which...
Posted On - 05/02/2018
The Opus is a 21-storey tower – designed by Zaha Hadid, and which pushes physical and technological boundaries to achieve its melting ice-cube shape – used Edgetech’s Super Spacer TriSeal, in its construction. Edgetech’s managing director Chris Alderson said: “The Opus is quite simply one of the most staggering and ambitious architectural projects attempted this decade. “It’s got a 6,000m2...
Posted On - 05/02/2018
Curtain walling by Kawneer has helped to give a listed former Victorian viaduct a £56 million new lease of life. Kawneer’s AA201 unitised, or off-site manufactured, curtain walling with curved corners and feature bands clads the first to tenth floors of the Grade A office building and car park development known as 101 Embankment in Salford, Greater Manchester. Designed by...
Posted On - 05/02/2018
Latest advancements in Crittall steel window design have been combined with traditional aesthetics to meet the demands of the United States’ Ivy League universities. Both client and architect called for neo-Gothic style fenestration to blend with the design of classrooms, student accommodation, offices, libraries and dining halls for the new college buildings. A variety of bespoke window shapes was required...
Posted On - 02/02/2018
Tremco Illbruck has contributed to a striking new-build project that’s been named Riba’s House of the Year 2017. James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell designed the building, and worked alongside Westgreen to bring it to life. Inspired by the traditional oast houses of Kent, Caring Wood revives local building crafts and traditions including locally sourced handmade peg clay tiles, locally...
Posted On - 02/02/2018
Technal glazing systems have been employed by Dortech Architectural Systems for the construction of the new Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) located within the University of Liverpool’s ‘Knowledge Quarter’. The 11,600m2, £multi-million project has been led by BAM Construction, with Dortech Architectural Systems having designed, manufactured and installed a package of products that included MX62 curtain walling, as well as FXi...
Posted On - 02/02/2018
Developers constructing a block of luxury apartments in an exposed and beautiful location on the Isle of Man chose Eurologik doors and windows from Eurocell. Lakeside Apartments is a four-storey shoreline development of eight three-bedroom apartments in Ramsey. It has views over Mooragh Park Lake on the landward side and across the sea to the mountains of the Lake District...
Posted On - 31/01/2018
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...
Posted On - 30/01/2018
The largest single-occupier development in Glasgow for around 25 years has made use of a bespoke curtain wall system by Kawneer. The architectural aluminium supplier’s system features left and right-handed mullions and split transoms to cater for the high movement in the 14-storey new flagship headquarters for Scottish Power. The 20,000m2 building, on a formerly vacant site on the corner...
Posted On - 30/01/2018
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...
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