Post-Grenfell, Tim Kempster, our managing director, looks at fire safety in tall buildings. The Grenfell Tower disaster will cast a long shadow for many years to come, helping to define official attitudes to social housing and the imperative of fire safety in tall buildings. While it’s too early to point fingers, it seems apparent that […]
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Wrightstyle working on Europe’s largest construction project
We’ve added to our transport portfolio by supplying a range of systems for five new Crossrail stations. We’re supplying to Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations on what will become the Elizabeth Line. The systems include blast-rated curtain walling, structurally glazed screens, and fire-rated and ballistic screens. The line is expected to […]
We’re in the pink at Bracken House
The former and future home of the Financial Times newspaper is being renovated to provide 270,000 sq ft of Grade A office space, complete with a walkable large-span glass roof designed and supplied by Wrightstyle. Bracken House is a Grade II Listed office building, originally built between 1955 and 1958, and lies adjacent to […]
We call for better education and enforcement
One of the UK’s leading advanced glazing system suppliers has called for better education and enforcement in the industry in the wake of a fraud trial in Northern Ireland. Wrightstyle, which supplies its systems internationally, says that many people involved in the specification, supply and installation of fire-rated glazing systems do not have the appropriate […]
Bidding adieu to our technical director
After nearly 18 years with Wrightstyle, our technical director, Lee Coates, is departing for pastures new at the end of this month. Lee joined the company in 1999 from WS Atkins, initially as a CAD technician, progressing to Technical Manager, responsible for our expanding testing programme and overseeing our technical department. He was a […]
