Blast Resistant Facades A key element to the extensive refurbishment was the installation of fully glazed blast resitant facades and other high safety elements. Wrightstyle has completed this major upgrading project at Cardiff Central Station for Network Rail Wales. The completion follows a similar project at Cardiff Queen Street station, in a major programme that […]
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An early Christmas warning – fire training
Lee Coates, the company’s technical director, looks at fire training in the build up to Christmas. Business Safety Week The UK Chief Fire Officers Association designated the second week of September as Business Safety Week. The initiative was to build on the goals set out in the association’s Business Safety Strategy that aims to reduce […]
Glass recycling
Denis Wright, the company’s chairman, says that glass is the most sustainable of building materials. Wrightstyle takes a look at glass recycling. Glass In Everything Glass is ubiquitous. In commercial buildings, it can form a major part of the external envelope. And for all buildings, as Le Corbusier remarked, the history of architecture is the […]
Light and glass in modern architecture
Light and glass go hand in hand. Most building materials have weight and mass, whether concrete, a brick or a length of structural steel. There is, however, one building material that has neither weight nor mass. Light in Architecture The Greeks called it Helios, the Romans Sol and, despite forming over 98% of the solar […]
King’s Cross officially reopened with the Wrightstyle protection
Iconic King’s Cross Redevelopment The final stage of the £550 million redevelopment of London’s King’s Cross station has been completed, with the iconic station at the heart of a £2.2 billion regeneration of the surrounding district. King’s Cross Square, the 75,000 sq ft area to the front of the station, and which is larger than […]
