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Flushglaze installed in award-winning project
transforming the interior space and continuing the buildings dialogue with the surrounding landscape. The glass fin comprises of two heat-soak tested toughened sections of glass, with a laminated interlayer which provides structural support.
01379 658 300
www.glazingvision.co.uk/request-cpd
Levolux sheds light on fine art
an intelligent control system. Unguided, guided and zipped roller blinds were combined with non-retractable blinds, in the form of Levolux’s Skyvane system, to satisfy challenging performance requirements. All blinds are linked to a Levolux lighting control system, which monitors multiple internal and external light sensors and presence detectors. These can be individually configured to set the level of lighting required given a range of criteria.
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The new £15 million extension to The Whitworth gallery in Manchester employs a state-of-the-art solar shading solution, coupled with an intelligent lighting control system, provided by Levolux, a leading solar shading and screening specialist. The Solar Shading solution comprises 48 Roller Blinds and 30 Skyvane systems, all motorised and linked to
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Knitters House is a RIBA award-winning project by CE+C architects. The brief was to transform an aging 1950’s bungalow into a modern contemporary dwelling, with inter- connecting light-filled spaces. Glazing Vision’s large modular Flushglaze rooflight is placed within the heart of the house, through a fissure reaching almost three stories high in the main entrance. The rooflight forms a central focal point in the building and is used to harness natural daylight on both floors,
Hunter Douglas’s new, silent sunscreens
A new low-maintenance and sound-absorbing retractable sunscreen has been developed by Hunter Douglas and incorporated into a prestigious Passiv Haus project in Brussels. ProScreen is a unique exterior sunscreen system with a patented noise reduction insert that provides superior sound-
absorbing properties in addition to up to 75 per cent sun glare protection and up to 85 per cent heat entry reduction. Architect practice A2M commissioned 206 units for its Anvers Simons FrontiSpice scheme, after being impressed with the guiding system which comprises a spring that counteracts movement, enabling noise to be completely absorbed.
01604 766251
www.hunterdouglas.co.uk Senior’s fluent design
The newly built Education First (EF) language school in Cambridge has been carefully arranged, with the classrooms spread over two levels and linked by a central glazed atrium. With a key requirement of the scheme being the use of both natural light and ventilation, Senior Architectural System’s
innovative Hybrid range of doors, windows and curtain walling has been specified to fulfil the exacting brief. Senior’s Hybrid Series 3 curtain walling has been used to create the school’s striking double height atrium with the slim sightlines offered by the Hybrid Series 2 windows further complementing the building’s architectural heritage. To meet the additional requirements of a busy modern school, Senior’s SD automatic doors completed the package.
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