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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...
Posted On - 16/03/2018
Unique Window Systems recently secured a contract on new-build development in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. The project is a collection of two-bedroom apartments being built alongside three- and four-bedroom homes, using the WarmCore system to mirror the project’s contemporary design. WarmCore combines an aluminium exterior with a full-width, thermal PVCU core, and housebuilders including Avant Homes, Bellway Homes, Davidson Homes and...
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...