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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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,”...
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...
Hueck has supplied its products to a large-scale, mixed-use development in Elephant and Castle. The development, named Elephant One, is situated in a prime location: close to the Elephant and Castle tube station and next to Elephant Park, offering convenient links to the city centre and great surroundings. Elephant One comprises three buildings and includes 374 new homes and 272...
Rehau PVCU windows have been specified for three schools in the south east of England. The Rehau Total70c top hung, outward opening casement windows in slate grey finish, were recommended for the installations at the Harris Primary Academy Shortlands (Bromley, Kent), Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred (Grays, Essex), and Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich (London) schools by contractor SEH Commercial....
Wicona has worked with Glassolutions to deliver the glazing and facades package for One Bedford Avenue, a flagship mixed use development in central London. The 115,000ft2 mixed-use office and retail development at One Bedford Avenue replaces two outdated office buildings on the corner of London’s Tottenham Court Road. The design concept for the building from Bennetts Associates was to create...