THE BOOK/DOORS, WINDOWS & GLAZING
THE BOOK/DOORS, WINDOWS & GLAZING
Elite Leisure Centre For 2012 Olympic Training Custom Fit. You Design, We Supply. Designing your own doors offers unlimited scope to get the doors you really want, to complement architectural or interior styling, or contrast for a bold individual statement. And because they are designed by you, they don’t carry a ‘designer’ price tag. Vicaima Doors has produced an attractive range of standard door bases that greatly increases design options for the humble timber door, and offers house builders and developers in particular the opportunity to create a truly individual interior environment. The standard door bases in this new Custom Fit range are available as veneered, foil or laminate in beech, ash, cherry, maple, oak and wenge, with a number of different design elements that can be chosen to make an individual door. For instance, contrasting inlays can be used to create stunning contemporary styles, with colour or veneer marquetry effects to mirror panel designs or vertical lines. Grooved options open up a world of design possibilities, where patterns are etched onto the door face to produce a geometric look, and can be stained in a range of colour options to give contrast if desired. Vicaima’s Custom Fit collection also allows for decorative glazing where better ingress of light is required, or simply as a design feature in itself. www.vicaima.com ENQUIRY CARD/ONLINE NO 59 www.buildinginnovations.co.uk/card
The Harlow Gateway Leisure Centre regeneration initiative is providing local people with new and improved sports and leisure facilities. Listed in the London 2012 Olympic Pre-Games Training Camp Guide, Harlow is one of just 65 elite venues in the East of England and one of 600 across the UK, to feature in the guide. The building design incorporated two curved standing seam roofs intersecting above the main swimming pool. At the junction of the roofs, Saunders Architects designed a contemporary dual pitch feature skylight, running across the spine of the building and curved on both elevation and plan. Leadbitter, the main contractor, needed someone with a proven track record of designing, manuf acturing and installing complex glazing systems. Leadbitter Construction selected SkyLight Solutions to design, manufacture and install the glazing. SkyLight Solutions worked closely with Saunders Architects and Leadbitter to develop a completely bespoke facetted design that would hold the dynamic curvature of the glazed roof and also support the dimensional tolerances of the glulam framed building. With an amazing 326 indi vidual glass units, the curved roof is 76 metres in length and has a 4.2 metre span at the widest dimension and 3.8 metres high at the ridge. The design consisted of a Schüco FW60+ aluminium framework glazing system and pre-treated and finished with a Marine Grade Synthatec polyester powder coating. It was glazed with 6mm grey body tinted heat soaked tested, toughened, 16mm argon filled cavity with silicone edge seal, and 8.8mm clear laminated Pilkington Therm 4. The high performance framing and glazing prevents condensation build-up and maintains a controlled temperature inside the building at all times. ENQUIRY CARD/ONLINE NO 61 www.buildinginnovations.co.uk/card
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High-Tech And Classic Handmade Garage Doors • We have been working creatively for our clients since 1968 and we make it our business to meet your requirements • Bespoke or standard specification for round the corner, overhead and side sectional doors
• Projects have included listed buildings, new build and conceptual architecture, refurbishment and more recently a passive house
• Door and sliding gear come as one package
• Manual or unique remote operation
• Garage doors and front doors to match
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• Manufactured from quality timber, aluminium or steel
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