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News Release from: SFS intec | Subject: Glass canopies
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 September 2007
Glass features create perfect kodak
moment
Glass canopies installed by MB Glass using the SFS intec VDS fixing system have played a key role in delivering an ultra-modern office building at Sherwood Park, the former Kodak site.
The Annesley site has been transformed by architects Hattrell and Partners to take it from its industrial past to fully modernised commercial premises that incorporate streamlined offices The result is a complex which combines richness of character with traditional materials used in a contemporary manner in order to achieve a design offering optimum functionality
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 15 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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To fulfil one the main objectives of the redesign, which was to maximise the availability of natural light in the building, structural glazing was identified as a key feature and Chesterfield-based aluminium systems specialists MB Glass were appointed.
As part of the glazing package, MB Glass designed and installed glass canopies using the SFS intec VDS fixing system for external doorways throughout the complex.
These offer a dual benefit in that they ensure each entrance door is protected from the elements while at the same time allowing natural light to enter the building through the glass canopy and the glazing within the aluminium curtain walling.
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"We were anxious to add another glass element as a contemporary design feature," says Mark Brown, managing director of MB Glass.
"The possibilities offered by SFS intec's innovative fixing system had me totally convinced from the outset," continues Mark Brown.
"In its fixing systems range, SFS intec offers enormous potential for the use of glass as a material in and on buildings".
The glass canopies were created by attaching the system's retaining rods to the glass using SFS intec's elegantly designed point fixings.
These retaining rods are fixed directly into the aluminium curtain walling grid via wall brackets with clevis pins and split rings.
Once in place, each of the glass canopies can be adjusted +/- 5 degrees for the perfect finish.
SFS intec also ensured MB Glass was able to manage installation of the canopies efficiently by supplying all canopy elements in individual packs to correspond with the way each building on the site had been numbered.
Glen Wainwright, who heads SFS intec's glass fixings team says, "This has been an extremely successful project and demonstrates how we can work with aluminium curtain walling installers to add stylish glass elements to buildings".
"Glass canopies offer protection from the wind and rain but also emphasise the open and transparent style which is so characteristic of modern architecture".
SFS intec offers a range of solutions for all types of exterior and interior glass elements, which includes single and bevel point fixings, spider fixings and special systems for balustrading and banisters.
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