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Crittall T60 is a Camden Classic C


rittall Window’s T60 Thermal Break System features as part of the £40 million renovation of the KOKO iconic music venue in Camden, London. Known as Camden Palace from 1982 until its 2004 purchase and extensive restoration when its name changed to KOKO, it serves as one of the premier live music venues in London.


Severely damaged by fire in 2020 KOKO reopened in April of this year following a multimillion-pound refurbishment.


Style and performance The decision to incorporate T60 into the Koko project reflects the system’s ability to offer the same aesthetic as Crittall’ s well-known steel-framed windows but with an enhanced thermal performance. Crittall’ s T60 is able to meet the most exacting thermal credentials. The window features an advanced high density glass fibre reinforced polyurethane isolator as a thermal barrier.


This, together with housing high performance double or triple glazing up to 32mm wide, ensures the system surpasses the


requirements of current regulations while at the same time providing contemporary levels of comfort, particularly in harsher weather conditions where traditional steel windows may not have previously been sufficient. T60 can provide a thermal rating of Uw 0.8 W/m²/K or 0.14 BTU.


All this is achieved within the same slender


profile for which Crittall steel windows are duly celebrated, ensuring the maximum amount of daylight entering the building, which in itself is a contributor to sustainability and reduces energy consumption. And steel, of course, is itself a 100% recyclable material “More and more people are considering the thermally broken T60 as their first choice when planning a new build or a refurbishment,”


says Crittall managing


director Russell Ager. And if there is a heritage element to a development the window because it offers the same sightlines as traditional rolled steel products, is finding favour with planning authorities.


01376 530800 www.crittall-windows.co.uk


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ealth and beauty retailer Boots UK is well known for offering beauty products to enhance the stylish good looks of its customers, so the entrance to their brand new store in Kensington High Street in London, just had to step up to the mark. The busy store needed an entrance to complement its glass and bronze-anodised facade and GEZE UK had just the answer – the UFO NT.


The UFO NT is an underfloor operator that is completely hidden from view, so perfect when installed with glass doors. Extremely


and


complying with the demands of the Equality Act and BS EN 8300 ensuring access for all, the UFO NT can be used on any type of doors – glass, metal or wood, and can operate doors with leaf widths up to 1250 mm on external doors and 1600 mm on internal doors and up to 125 kg in weight.


GEZE UK worked with facade solutions specialists Colorminium to design and install double doors with two UFO NT automatic operators to the store entrance.


The Boots store is part of a mixed use building on the corner of High Street and Wrights Lane, the 1970’s building was remodelled and extended, to completely transform it and includes office space, a new retail arcade and connection to the London Underground. Said Andy Iredale, GEZE UK’s national sales manager for automatics and window technology: “The UFO NT was the perfect solution for this busy store, the operator is concealed beneath the floor giving designers the freedom to create aesthetically pleasing entrances yet still provide automatic access.”


Said Mihai Ciobanu, project manager at Colorminium: “We have worked with GEZE many times and we were delighted with this solution from them. This new product is mounted below the finished floor level and so gave us the clean stylish entrance we wanted.”


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