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Posted On - 30/01/2018
Promac Group’s presence will be among the largest at this year’s Fensterbau (March 21-24), the company announced, thanks to four supply partners exhibiting at the show. This includes developments in PVCU welding technologies from Graf and Urban. The latest incarnations of the SL4-FF seamless welder from Graf Synergy, including the SL4FF EVO and the SL4-H FF, which introduces a new...
Posted On - 15/01/2018
Indeglas is set to undertake supply work to the value of £half-a-million for purpose-built offices on Belfast’s riverside of Allstate NI, the IT support arm of Allstate Corporation, a US insurance company. Indeglas has been contracted to provide all interior glass solutions, including meeting rooms, boardrooms and individual offices. In addition, it is providing freestanding writable screens. These high-tech screens...
Posted On - 15/01/2018
The three latest Atlas ‘Installation of the Month’ competition winners are: QKS Home Improvements; Thames Valley Windows; and John Knight Glass. Lincolnshire-based QKS Home Improvements scooped the Installation of the Month title for two Atlas Flat Rooflight installations: a modern extension for a property in Stamford, which was topped with two different sized Atlas rooflights; and a marriage of aluminium,...
Posted On - 11/01/2018
AB Glass has been appointed by Kier Construction to provide its services as part of the development of a technology park and advanced manufacturing workspace on the outskirts of St Austell, Cornwall. Funding has been secured to develop the Carluddon Technology Park and Employment Space for Advanced Manufacture (ESAM), which aims to attract high-value businesses and provide high-skilled jobs, which...
Posted On - 09/01/2018
Max Glass recently used the Optima system from Profile 22 to complete an installation in a property in a woodland conservation area near Leeds. The property owners wanted to improve the thermal efficiency of their stone-built property but, as the area’s estate manager confirmed, it was essential that any replacement windows – including the 26 leaded lights – replicated the...
Posted On - 09/01/2018
Jack Aluminium’s TruEnergy window is easy to fit, easy to fabricate, according to Nick Hundleby, director at Arcalu Architectural Aluminium. “We do lots of school projects, and we have always chosen The Jack Door for those jobs because it’s such a solid, robust door that can withstand the knocks and bangs of packs of teenagers, their elbows and their bags,”...
Posted On - 09/01/2018
The Modo composite door range from Apeer has been used in a home renovation project in Broughshane, Co. Antrim. Apeer’s Ryan Burnett was looking to replace the old single glazed door on his property with a secure replacement that could be personalised. As part of the IT team on the Apeer FIT Show stand at the NEC in Birmingham last...
Posted On - 05/01/2018
Indeglas has supplied internal glass partitioning for the Scottish War Blinded Charity’s new Hawkhead Centre in Paisley. This is the second successful project Indeglas has undertaken for the charity, having worked on its Linburn Centre in West Lothian, seven years ago. Jeanette MacIntyre, managing director of Indeglas, said: “This building is primarily for veterans who have visual impairments, so the...
Posted On - 05/01/2018
Dudley’s Aluminium has secured a contract to support the construction of a new student accommodation building in Cardiff's Capital Quarter. Dudley's secured the £1million contract with ISG, and will install Kawneer capped curtain walling, windows and doors for the accommodation rooms as well as automatic doors for the entrances. Dudley's will begin work on the project early 2018 with the...
Posted On - 05/01/2018
The new £212 million Dumfries and Galloway Hospital has opened its doors after transferring staff and patients from their old site. Bennett Architectural teamed up with Laing O’Rourke on the construction of the 344-bed new build facility. Off-site construction method DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) was used to pre-install windows into high specification concrete panels saving on-site labour cost...
Posted On - 15/12/2017
Sheffield’s ADM Windows has just given a stone farmhouse in Maltby, South Yorkshire, a new lease of life by installing 17 Spectus Flush Casement windows and one bay window. Aaron Fountain, director of ADM Windows, said: “Our customer wanted to replace the ageing timber windows of his farmhouse and replace them with high quality windows that would enhance the heritage...
Posted On - 13/12/2017
Amscreen has agreed a new deal with Romag to optimise viewability and durability of their outdoor screen products. The new product will initially feature across Amscreen’s latest portfolio of 75” outdoor displays. The anti-reflective glass has been optimised to maximise light transmission while minimising glare. The low-iron display is also toughened, heat strengthened and includes a solar interlayer to help...
Posted On - 07/12/2017
Built in 1875, the Barnes Hospital is a French Gothic style building where patients from Manchester Infirmary were sent to convalesce. The Grade 2-listed building, which was closed in 1999 and left to deteriorate, is now receiving a new lease of life as developer Henley Homes creates the Barnes Village around it. Alongside the 38 homes that are being constructed...
Posted On - 06/12/2017
When architectural practice Scott Brownrigg designed a new building at the headquarters of FTSE 100-listed wealth management business St James’s Place, it wanted to give the building a suitably impressive centrepiece to welcome employees, clients and partners. This was achieved in the form of a three-storey atrium, created using the Pilkington Planar structural glazing system. The space sits between the...
Posted On - 04/12/2017
Jackloc has been specified for a luxury hotel under construction on The Palm in Dubai. The Leicestershire-firm is supplying 400 MK2 key-lockable restrictors for the upcoming W Hotel, which is due to open in March 2018, and will provide more than 350 rooms including 58 suites with views across the Arabian Gulf and the Dubai skyline. “It’s fantastic to see...
Posted On - 04/12/2017
Proto Studios has completed a high-profile commission for Toronto Transit Commission, drawing on specialist IGU expertise from Cornwall Glass. Sitting within the Toronto commuter-belt, Highway 407 is its new subway station and bus terminal. The contemporary transport hub was commissioned by the Toronto Transit Commission and opened at the end of 2017. The intermodal transport gateway features a subway, an...
Posted On - 30/11/2017
AB Glass has been awarded a contract to provide its services to the second phase of work in the redevelopment of the Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera campus, which will see £4.2 million invested in a two-storey teaching block. The Swansea-based company has been appointed by Dawnus, an international civil engineering and building company, to install aluminium systems at the Welsh-medium secondary...
Posted On - 30/11/2017
Bennett Architectural worked on three parts of Victoria Gate in Leeds, including a complex diagrid pattern for the rooftop restaurant of John Lewis, which was formed using laser cut aluminium sheets in gold ionized finish with structured silicon glazed curtain walling. The project recently scooped the Retail Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin. For the...
Posted On - 15/11/2017
It was an obvious choice for Apeer R&D engineer Paul Vajda to have one of the doors he helped to design for his own home near the company’s Ballymena factory recently. It was just as natural, when his father-in-law wanted a new front door, that Paul would recommend the company’s Lumi system. The result, a combination of Lumi composite door...
Posted On - 15/11/2017
Torquay’s Fenster Fabrications has contributed to a sea-view residential development that’s been shortlisted for multiple awards. Designed by Truro architects Kast, and located in Downderry on Cornwall’s south coast, Sea Edge House is a modern cliff-edge property with stunning Atlantic views. The dwelling’s low roof profile allows it to make the most of its spectacular location, without obstructing the views...
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