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. […]
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Designing safer airports
Tim Kempster, managing director, in the first of a two-part article, looks at airport security and the role of glazing systems. The threat of terrorist attack remains very real, not least at airports. Let’s not forget the 2016 attack at Brussels Airport that killed some 30 people. Or the Istanbul airport attack in the same […]
A picture of Dorian
Tim Kempster, our managing director, looks at Hurricane Dorian and the impact hurricanes have had on modern glazing systems. Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, recently hit the Bahamas, before also making landfall in the USA. It generated winds of up to 220 mph and storm surges of some 23 feet. The death toll is […]
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 […]
Wind loading and glass technologies
Extreme Weather and Wind Loading Wrightstyle takes a look at the crucial importance of wind loading in modern building design, in view of extreme weather events and climate change. Over the past few months, extreme weather events have battered countries in the Caribbean and Asia, testing the resilience of local communities and the infrastructure on […]
