Photographer: Tim Van De Velde
Windows, Doors and Curtain Wall in the Education Sector
Whether you are looking for a thermally efficient Passive House glazing solution, a cost-effective casement window or a robust entrance door that has achieved the highest performance in independently verified tests, we have the right product choice and combination for your next education project.
Photographer: Tim Van De Velde
Benefits of Reynaers Aluminium Systems:
Enhanced natural light and connection to outdoors: Large expanses of glass bring in natural light, creating brighter, more inviting learning spaces and a visual connection to the outside. Additional light helps to reduce eye strain and positively influences mood.
Ventilation and aeration: Maintaining a healthy airflow is critically important in schools to maintain student and teacher health and reduce illness transmission, ultimately to improve cognitive function and academic performance.
Energy efficiency: High-performing systems with thermal breaks and advanced glazing can significantly reduce heating costs and help manage solar gain, making the buildings more environmentally efficient.
Aesthetic flexibility: Curtain Wall can be customised with different finishes, colours, and styles to match the school’s design, framing striking entrances, and/or creating impressive, glazed features like atria.
Durability and weather resistance: Systems are designed to be robust and to withstand weather conditions like wind and rain, providing a reliable barrier.
Security: Systems are available with high-security hardware and accreditations like STS202 (BR2), PAS 24, and Secured by Design, which is important for school environments.
Cost-effective installation and maintenance: Reynaers systems can be designed for quicker site assembly, and some offer easy, internal replacement of individual glazed units, if needed.
Material versatility: Aluminium curtain wall system solutions provide flexibility to match existing window and door systems.
Premium finish and coating: Systems supplied with Class 2 architectural powder coating as standard, providing enhanced durability and consistent aesthetic performance.
Offsite construction ready: Suitable for integration with precast façade systems, supporting offsite manufacture and streamlined installation on site.
Architect: Space Architects Fabricator: Topside Group Ltd Photographer: Nick Short Photography
Top Products for the Education Sector:
Vision 7 Thermal Commercial Door and Framing System
This robust entrance door has achieved over 1 million open-close cycles in durability testing, with U-values as low as 1.1Wm²K. Its slim profile features an anti finger trap design and unique post-installation adjustable bottom pivot.
It is PAS 24 certified for single and double doors with standard locks and concealed panic hardware. It is also tested to STS202 (Burglar Resistance levels BR1 and BR2) and can be supplied by STS202 certified fabricators. Vision 7 is available with either standard hook locking or access control using Maglocks, achieving PAS 24 and STS202.
ConceptWall 50 Curtain Wall System
This system offers incredible building speed, design freedom and exceptional acoustic, AWW and thermal performance. It is a Cradle to Cradle Certified® system and has achieved Passive House certification.
CW 50 supports glass loads up to 700kg helping to maximise entrance of light into the building. ConceptWall 60 and SlimWall 35 are two other Reynaers systems that may offer the right credentials for your project.
MasterLine 8 Windows and Doors
Achieving Passive House certification, this window and door system is an ideal solution for sustainable education projects.
ML 8 doors and windows achieve PAS 24 security standard, whilst also providing excellent AWW, thermal and acoustic performance. This system is one of Reynaers Cradle to Cradle Certified® products.
SlimLine 38 Windows and Doors
This high-insulation ultra slim window and door system offers multiple minimalistic variants. Its slender, steel-look design is a perfect fit for new builds and contemporary projects.
SL 38 is another Cradle to Cradle Certified® product. As well as achieving PAS 24 for its windows, it is a high performing, sustainable solution, suitable for any building project. The HI+ window variant can offer Passive House thermal performance.
ConceptSystem 77 Windows and Doors
This system is Reynaers most versatile solution, offering a wide variety of opening types and styles to support a broad scope of architectural designs.
CS 77 is a great all-round performer in terms of acoustics, AWW, thermal efficiency, and securityachieving PAS 24 certification. It offers a broad range of panic options and is another of Reynaers Cradle to Cradle Certifed® products.
Whether providing commercial doors, integrated window systems, or curtain walling, we work with trusted suppliers from concept design through to project completion, ensuring a quality product and collaboration in delivering premium solutions.
Whatever the needs, such as restricted opening, our team aims to understand and work together with project stakeholders to provide the right solution.
Photographer: Nick Short Photography
Vision 7 Thermal Commercial Door and Framing System
Our Aluminium Solutions:
Over the past 40 years, Reynaers Aluminium has supported a range of educational projects across the UK and further afield. Throughout its 60 years of Group operations, Reynaers has been delivering both new build and refurbishment solutions with a focus on performance, durability, security and to meet increasingly stringent sustainability goals.
Supporting your project needs
A broad range of aluminium profiles and accessories to support a wide range of project needs.
Window Systems
• Casement (Top Hung and Side Hung)
• Tilt Turn, Tilt Only, Turn Only (Side Hung)
• Bulletproof
• Lifetime Homes
• Passive House
Door Systems
• STS 202 (BR2) Certified –Vision 7 only
• PAS 24 Certified
• Balcony door
• Bi-Folding door
• Lift and Slide door
• Sliding doors
• Thermal Commercial door
• Passive House door
Curtain Wall Systems
• High Rise – Capped (50mm and 60mm)
• High Rise – Toggle glazed
• High Rise – Hidden vent
• High Rise – Silicone jointed (Concealed vents)
• Low Rise – Capped (35mm)
• Passive House
• Element Façade 7
• Bomb Blast
• Brise Soleil
• Parallel Opening Vents (Hidden and Standard)
Navigating compliance and legislation
Reynaers Aluminium offers one of, if not the largest independently verified test data sets, evidencing the performance and compliance of our products to support in demonstrating competency and evidencing the golden thread of information.
We offer a wide range of digital tools to support projects through visualisation and design, calculations and configurations, ordering, production, service and aftercare, as well as our own DigiTrace system to add a digital passport to each product. This makes productspecific information accessible through QR code tags which can be affixed to each specific window, door or curtain wall element.
Casement Tilt and Turn Lift and Slide Stick Unitised Bomb Blast Louvres Brise Soleil
Who is Reynaers Aluminium?
Reynaers Aluminium UK is part of Reynaers Group (headquarters in Duffel, Belgium), a building envelope specialist with a global presence in more than 40 countries.
Expertly engineered, each system is designed to meet the highest requirements when it comes to critical characteristics such as design, functionality, performance and aesthetics.
Paired with this, Reynaers provides consultations to architects and building professionals at every stage of a project, from conceptualisation and specification to fabrication and installation.
This combination of unparalleled product quality, expertise and innovation makes Reynaers the partner of choice for architects, fabricators and installers alike.
Based in Birmingham, Reynaers UK is ideally placed to support projects across the UK. Alongside its Knowledge Centre and warehouse, Reynaers’ showroom provides a space for customers to explore products and receive hands-on training.
“We strive for excellence in all we do.”
Certifications, accreditations and member associations
The Reynaers team strives for excellence and in doing so works closely with numerous member and trade associations.
Reynaers products have been awarded several recognised and prestigious accreditations, and work to stringent voluntary standards.
Bespoke solutions
From design to delivery, the Reynaers Aluminium team can offer bespoke solutions for your project that, where required, can be tailored and tested according to projectspecific standards.
The Project Team calculates, designs and simulates concepts in great detail, and for large projects offering the option of visualising solutions in 3D with tools such as Avalon, Reynaers own state-of-the-art Virtual Reality room.
Architect: BDP Architects Fabricator: Prater Ltd
Sustainability. From every angle.
When it comes to reducing our ecological impact, actions speak louder than words. We approach ‘Sustainability. From every angle.’
Read more about our approach and our commitment to Reynaers Act. Download our sustainability strategy report, which outlines what actions we are taking based on scientific facts that have a meaningful impact. We are committed to Science-based targets in line with the SBTi.
Cradle to Cradle Certified® products
Build with circularity in mind. 15 of Reynaers products – and within this, over 50 variants – hold Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certification®.
This sustainable seal of approval indicates both the durability and quality of aluminium used in our circular systems, working towards a waste-free ecosystem.
By producing C2C certified products, we support architects in the UK to design buildings with a low carbon footprint.
Passive House Certified solutions
As the UK strives to reduce its environmental impact, the demand for Passive House standard buildings is on the rise. Reynaers’ Passive House Certified solutions provide excellent performance levels year-round, whilst promoting a warm and comfortable interior.
Factors such as temperature, indoor air quality, and noise levels inside a building directly impact the comfort levels and cognitive performance of occupants.
At Reynaers, we are constantly renewing product performance and exploring new ways to certify even more of our systems. That way, we ease component selection for professionals in the design phase of their energy-efficient buildings.
“We use the Passive House standard as a reference point when designing our highly insulated products. That way, we contribute to more energy-efficient buildings.”
Sustainability Manager at Reynaers Aluminium Group.
Photographer: Chris Matterson
Reynaers Aluminium
Our commitment to project delivery
The Reynaers team works closely with all relevant project stakeholders.
We are fully aware of the importance of prompt delivery and are committed to developing and achieving a program of supply and, if needed, on-site support to meet specific project requirements.
Comprehensive technical support and services
Reynaers provides expert technical and design support at every stage of your project, including:
• Technical advice
• System design support
• Assistance with estimating
• Project-specific bespoke solutions
• Assistance with full façade design
• Dedicated overseas design support
• Value engineering
• CAD drawings, BIM, and NBS specifications
Reynaers Aluminium UK is now a GQA Accredited Training Centre.
Contact your Reynaers representative or enquire at: reynaers.co.uk/contact-reynaers-aluminium
Training Expert support every step of the way.
Reynaers’ industry-leading technical team is an invaluable asset (both in the UK and at our headquarters in Belgium), providing a comprehensive series of formal training courses through the Reynaers Knowledge Centre to support excellence throughout the supply chain.
Training is provided free of charge and includes:
• Navigating product catalogues
• Product awareness and selection
• Estimating software
• Hands-on fabrication
• Toolbox talks
• Installation guidance, tips, and techniques
Projects and inspiration Appleton Academy
Leeds, United Kingdom
Designed by London-based Architects BDP, Appleton Academy accommodates 1,400 pupils and is formed of a curved, U-shaped structure, sloped roof and internal winter garden.
ConceptWall 50 (CW 50) | Curtain Wall EcoSystem 50 | Windows
Architect: Building Design Partnership
Fabricator: Prater Ltd.
General Contractors: H&J Martin
This Yorkshire school provides education for children of 3-19 years of age. Sponsored by Bradford College, the academy is named after Sir Edward Appleton, a Nobel Prize winning scientist who both studied and worked there.
H&J Martin appointed Lindner Prater to deliver a complete building envelope solution. The works included a striking cedar rain screen finish to the exterior of the building, together with Reynaers Eco 50 windows and ConceptWall 50 curtain walling with insert vents.
The result is a striking building that rises from the ground to take a commanding position on the surrounding landscape.
Projects and inspiration
Bede Sixth Form College
Billingham, United Kingdom
Delivering a brand new sixth form centre for SRC Bede College, Reynaers Aluminium helped to create one of the best further education institutes in the Tees Valley region.
ConceptWall 50 (CW 50) | Curtain Wall
ConceptWall 50 Fire Resistant (CW 50-FP) | Curtain Wall
Architect: Space Architects
Fabricator: Topside Group Ltd
Reynaers systems played a vital role in this landmark £11m project.
Topside Group Ltd fabricated and installed Reynaers ConceptWall 50-FP (CW 50-FP) fire resistant curtain wall system for its seamless integration, creative adaptability, excellent performance and maximum light penetration.
Facilitating a light and airy interior, Reynaers CW 50-FP curtain wall helps to create a dynamic and effective working environment, designed to encourage optimal productivity from students.
Nick Short Photography
