We announced recently that we were working on a healthcare project in Wales. We’ll shortly be supplying a fire rated curtain wall screen and double doors for the £350 million Grange University Hospital, in Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran. It’s one of the largest NHS projects ever seen in Wales, and will admit its first patients in […]
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The new civic architecture
In the second of her two-part article on civic architecture, Jane Embury looks at some glass advantages. In my previous article, I looked at how the general election should be more than about Brexit. The main political parties have all said that the age of austerity is over, and much public investment is needed. My […]
Not Brexit, architecture
In the first of a two-part article on civic architecture, Jane Embury casts an eye towards the upcoming general election. In the UK, we’re on the verge of a general election, following years of Brexit chaos. However, I don’t want to talk politics. Instead, I would like to talk architecture. While Brexit dominates the political […]
Bolton fire underlines containment importance
Last Friday, a major fire broke out in student accommodation in Bolton. It was tackled by 200 firefighters and took more than nine hours to put out. Worse, the fire started in the late evening and, according to media reports, the fire alarm may not have activated correctly. Those who did hear the alarm weren’t […]
The Wrightstyle Challenge
Chris Peters, our Chief Design Manager, looks at how far advanced glazing systems have come. We think of fires as uncommon events, but they’re not as uncommon as you might guess. Because fire and rescue services attended 573,221 incidents in the year to June 2019. This was a 2% increase compared with the previous year. […]
