Wrightstyle is shortly to supply advanced glazing systems to a £7.5 million state-of-the-art care home being built by Deeley Construction. Wrightstyle will be installing fire-rated screens and doors at the Woodside Care Village, an inspirational new care home in Warwick which will provide care for 72 older people and people living with a dementia, due […]
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Water torture and the Great Exhibition
Jane Embury, Wrightstyle’s marketing director, explains the origins of the notoriously difficult US fire testing regime. Water is not something you usually associate with testing the strength of a glazing system. But it’s still being practiced for fire testing the protective level of glazing systems in the United States. Nowadays, it’s called the hose stream […]
Wrightstyle remembers the Summerland tragedy
Looking back at one of the worst fire tragedies in the British Isles and the case for effective fire resistant design. Last year saw the appalling catastrophe of Grenfell Tower, which will no doubt see the introduction of new fire regulations for the manufacture and installation of external cladding. Tragically, codifying by catastrophe is nothing […]
Wrightstyle brings Farringdon art to life
Wrightstyle, the advanced steel and aluminium glazing system company, recently completed three elevations of structurally-glazed curtain walling measuring over 50 metres in length as part of recent work on the eastern ticket hall of Crossrail’s Farringdon station. As part of Crossrail’s Art Programme, British artist Simon Periton designed an artwork for the curtain walling featuring an […]
A perspective of glass and the terrorist threat
When it comes to terrorism, perception is everything. The FBI defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” The Encyclopedia Britannica, more prosaically, defines it as “the systematic use […]
