Bowater Doors creates future-proof performance range of doors
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:45
With specifiers and homeowners alike increasingly turning to GRP Composite doors for their thermal performance and durability, so the UK’s leading manufacturer, Bowater Doors, has developed a unique concept called ‘Doors for Life’ which not only ‘future proofs’ properties to meet the highest insulation and security standards, but also allows the doors to be quickly and cost effectively upgraded on site, to meet the changing requirements of the specifier or homeowner.
The range offers double rebate with double compression seals doors, fire doors and single rebate doors, which offer U-values ranging up to 0.8 Wm2K – the performance demanded by level 6 in terms of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the highest standard currently in force for new housing.
Tradesmith and WHS Halo – a winning partnership after 18 years
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:40
East Sussex-based fabricator Tradesmith Limited is celebrating a new milestone in its continuing growth and development – its 18 th year working with WHS Halo. And, despite this coming of age, the relationship is continuing to prove a winning combination.
“Despite the adverse trading conditions, our business has seen double-digit growth over the past two years and we’re currently on target to maintain this through 2011,” says managing director Mark Hutchinson. “This success is down to the excellence of the WHS Halo product range and our own commitment to best-in-class customer service.”
System10 casts cool gaze over hot fighters
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:37
Visitors to the Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum Building at Manston in Kent can now enjoy the cafeteria there in comfort thanks to System10 casement windows from WHS Halo – the UK’s leading manufacturer of energy efficient doors, windows and fenestration packages.
The museum’s Merlin Cafeteria was opened in 1993, but the glazed area had created a problem for the south-facing building – solar gain overheated the area on sunny days and warped the mahogany frames on the doors and windows, which consequently became cold and draughty in winter.
Local fabricator and installer Stroud Windows replaced these with System10 top opening casement windows and two double French doorsets; all with a rosewood foil finish to match the rest of the woodwork in the building and double-glazed with Planitherm 4S heat-reflective glass.
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Bowater Architectural adds bespoke power and shade ‘specials’ to curtain walling
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:40
Bowater Projects – one of the UK’s leading installers of energy efficient architectural facades and entrance systems – now offers bespoke solar shading and photovoltaic (PV) panel options for its System10 Curtain Waling. Both products – which are only available as ‘specials’ – provide a simple, low maintenance way to cut both energy bills and carbon dioxide emissions.
Aesthetically pleasing, flexible and lightweight, the solar shading provides a quick-fix and inexpensive solution to offices and classrooms that suffer from excessive solar gain. It helps maintain room temperatures at around 24˚C – reducing the use of air-conditioning units and so reducing energy bills and CO2 emissions – as total solar gain is limited to 35 W/m2 (in accordance with Part L2 of the Building Regulations).
SmartSash wins acclaim for Bowater Building Products
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:39
The revolutionary System10 SmartSash window has won yet more awards for Bowater Building Products – the UK’s leading manufacturer of energy efficient doors, windows and fenestration packages – which has just been recognised as one of the region’s top performers at the prestigious Midlands Excellence Awards.
The company was highly commended in the Innovation category of the Midlands Excellence Specialist Category awards In front of more than 1,150 business leaders at the awards ceremony – the largest event of its kind in Europe – held at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre.
SmartSash takes rural housing into the future
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 21:35
The revolutionary SmartSash window from WHS Halo – the UK’s leading manufacturer of energy efficient doors, windows and fenestration packages – has been specified and installed in properties in Beausale, Warwickshire, under the 'Retrofit for the Future' programme.
This programme is the first of its kind in the UK, and will see social housing units across the country retrofitted with innovative technologies that demonstrate whole house solutions for refurbishment that cut carbon emissions and energy use. Low carbon consultants Encraft, together with Warwick District Council, won the competition to run this pilot scheme against 400 other bids, with the SmartSash window contributing not just thermal efficiency, but also affordability.
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VEKA plc has announced the acquisition of Bowater Building Products Ltd in a move which will further strengthen VEKA’s market position within the UK industry during its 25th anniversary year of manufacturing in the UK.
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