Increasing Demand For Security Glazing

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team May 28, 2004

Architects and other specifiers faced with providing enhanced security for premises can call on the expertise of glazed PollardsFyrespan, which has recently expanded its Enfield HQ.

The company has built its reputation on an ability to combine visually attractive styling with quality engineering, embracing both standard and bespoke solutions.

Door systems such as the Fyrespan S Series offer all welded, tubular steel frames of varying section size, while the specifier's choice of glazing is held securely in place with profiled steel beading and ceramic tape.

A full selection of glass types including toughened, laminated and Georgian wired or composite units can all be incorporated depending on the level of security required.

PollardsFyrespan Precinct doors are frequently chosen for high profile retail applications and are available in a variety of configurations, permitting ease of access in compliance with DDA legislation as well as commercial needs, coupled with high security out of hours.

A choice of locking systems and framing options helping combat crime.

The company's range further includes Anti-vandal doorsets featuring steel reinforced timber cores, faced and edged with rigidised stainless steel sections.

The door frame is similarly constructed in heavy gauge stainless steel while vision panels can be specified to meet the highest demands of the LPC's new standard for security glazing.

The door systems offered by PollardsFyrespan can also meet demanding performance criteria in terms of thermal and acoustic insulation, while varying the design of the glazing unit can also enable assemblies to offer periods of fire resistance from 30 minutes up to two hours.

PollardsFyrespan is part of the Anglo-Scandinavian HansenGroup, one of Europe's leading fenestration specialists, with annual sales of £100 million and over 1,000 employees.

HansenGroup's activities extend from structural glazing, curtain walling and windows, fire resisting and steel glazing systems and advanced glass processing to high performance steel doorsets for fire, acoustic, security and cleanroom applications.