KAWNEER UK LTD
ASTMOOR ROAD
ASTMOOR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
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CHESHIRE WA7 1QQ
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Suppliers of: Aluminium Curtain Wall, Unitised Systems, Brise Soleil, Windows, Entrance Doors, Framing, Fire Resistant Systems, Sliding Solutions
Kawneer are a leading UK supplier of Architectural Aluminium Glazing Systems.
Kawneer manufacture an extensive range of products suitable for use in a variety of market sectors, including, Education, Healthcare, Commercial, Residential, Arts & Leisure and can also supply bespoke solutions. Part of the international Arconic Group, Kawneer products are extensively tested to comply with both EU and UK regulations.
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Kawneer Curtain Walling & Brise Soleil
The AA®100 Curtain Wall is available as a standard 50mm system, or for increased loads and movement, our AA®110 65mm system, now further developed to allow up to +/- 15mm building movement. By providing a unique dry jointed facade solution both systems can be installed as fully capped, horizontal capped, vertical capped or structural silicone glazed. For Fire Resistance, the AA®100/AA®110 FR is designed as a stick curtain wall assembly offering 30 minutes insulation and integrity.
AA®201 Unitised Curtain Wall is a structurally glazed system along with our AA®265 Unitised System, a dry glazed solution incorporating a 3-chamber system and overlapping gasket design for optimum weathertightness. Both systems give the building team a unique set of benefits, including, factory fabrication to ensure additional quality control, rapid onsite installation as well as slimline design and flexibility.
Kawneer’s Curtain Wall, Window and Framing systems can accommodate our AA®130 Brise Soleil System which adds a stunning design statement to the building facade; optimising the natural daylight within a building whilst limiting the solar heat gain.
Kawneer Windows
The AA®720 series corresponds to the BRE Global Green Guide online generic specification for windows and achieves a summary rating of A*. The windows are a 72mm profile incorporating the very latest thermal technology and meet the latest European requirements for thermal performance. Glazing and panels up to 56mm thickness can be accommodated enabling the use of triple glazing. The range consists of the AA®720 Casement, the AA®720 Pivot, the AA®720 Tilturn and the AA®720 Parallel Opening. AA®720 FR consists of Door and Fixed Light variants offering 30 minutes insulation and integrity.
The AA®540 series corresponds to the BRE Global Green Guide online generic specification for windows and achieves a summary rating of A+**. The range consists of the AA®541 Casement, the AA®542 Pivot and the AA®543 Tilturn Window designed to offer optimum weather and thermal performance at a competitive price.
The GT70 Slimline Renovation Window is an elegant aluminium fenestration solution designed specifically to replicate the appearance of steel windows.
The AA®720 Juliet Balcony is designed to suite with Kawneer’s AA®720 Open-In-Window and provides a simple, elegant and affordable glazed balcony with virtually seamless external visual appearance.
LouvreShield is designed to suite with Kawneer’s AA®720 and AA®543 Open-In Windows offering a simple and aesthetic solution for providing both ventilation and fall protection.
Kawneer Sliding Solutions
Kawneer also supplies an extensive range of window and door sliding solutions which includes a AA®3110 Horizontal Sliding Window & Door, the specialist healthcare AA®3110HW Window, the AA®3610 Vertical Sliding Window and the AA®3610LS Window, a unique solution which opens the top and bottom sashes simultaneously for improved ventilation.
The AA®3720 Folding/Sliding Door, AA®3572 Lift/Slide Door and AA®4110 Lift/Slide and Sliding Patio Door systems have been developed as solutions for projects that demand the highest levels of thermal and weathering performance. The AA®3720 is equally suited to the discerning home owner or installed in commercial premises that wish to enhance the environment whilst the AA®3572 is an ideal space saving solution where safety is a consideration and projecting swing doors are undesirable, with the AA®4110 a cost-effective system ideal for both residential and light commercial applications.
Kawneer Entrance Doors & Framing
AA®190 TB is a heavy-duty, all-purpose, themally broken, welded, commercial entrance Door for use in high traffice areas and automatic entrances. It’s robust construction means that it is suitable for use in heavy/severe applications and can be installed with a finger guard pivot stile. Kawneer offers two Swing Doors both single action open-in or open-out with the AA®545 designed to offer optimum weather and thermal performance at a competitive price. The AA®720 Series Door systems are available in two levels of thermal performance to enable flexibility of design, performance and cost. The AA®720 FR consists of Door and Fixed Light variants offering 30 minute insulation and integrity.
The thermally efficient 451PT Framing system is suitable for ground and first floor applications, combining thermal performance with product aesthetics and is suitable for use on commercial projects in the public sector and is also ideal for large display windows in the retail sector.
* www.thegreenguide.org.uk Element Number 1231500007
** www.thegreenguide.org.uk Element Number 1231500011
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Kawneer glazing systems win over at award-winning neighbourhood Middlewood Locks
Kawneer glazing systems win over at award-winning neighbourhood Middlewood Locks
Kawneer’s aluminium systems now being used on a second phase.
Following their use on the first phase of the largest regeneration project in the north-west, architectural glazing systems by leading UK manufacturer Kawneer are now being used on the second.
The first phase of the Middlewood Locks project in Manchester by developer Scarborough International Properties features Kawneer’s AA®100 zone-drained curtain walling, AA®130 brise soleil and AA®720 external doors on the ground floors of six blocks of apartments around three large basins of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury canals.
The AA®130 brise soleil has also been used between external balconies as privacy screens and was complemented by Kawneer’s AA®3572 lift/slide doors and AA®720 thermally-superior side-hung casement windows which feature on the first floor upwards of the seven-storey blocks.
The award-winning waterside neighbourhood, a joint venture with Metro Holdings of Singapore and Hualing Group of China, was promoted by former Chancellor George Osborne as a critical part of the Northern Powerhouse.
Lying next to Salford Central railway station at the gateway to Spinningfields - Manchester’s Central Business District, the vibrant 25-acre, £1 billion neighbourhood will eventually comprise more than 2,000 new one to three-bedroomed apartments, maisonettes and townhouses.
It will also include 900,000ft2 of commercial development – 500,000ft2 of Grade A office space, shops, restaurants, hotel, gym and convenience store – alongside landscaped green spaces. The second phase, which is currently under construction, will comprise 546 apartments.
Designed by previous Kawneer specifiers Whittam Cox architects and constructed over 30 months by main contractor BCEGI, the dual-colour aluminium Kawneer systems (black externally, white internally) were installed over two years by a team of up to 40 from specialist sub-contractor/Kawneer dealer FK Group.
Design team leader Gwyn Jones said: “FK worked very closely with Whittam Cox architects and Kawneer to provide bespoke, as well as system design solutions, to the full building envelope including the cladding elements, to achieve the required design intent and performance of the project.
“The project design across all individual blocks was assisted due to the close working relationship between FK, Kawneer as system supplier, and Whittam Cox architects.”
Whittam Cox architect David Turner said: “The glazed elements were a large factor to portions of the scheme due to the acoustic requirements. They were built into formed openings of either masonry or cladding in a traditional way. In this instance sustainability was lower down the performance requirements.
“The client was happy with the Kawneer product and consequently has retained it for the Phase 2 works which are currently on site.”
Kawneer's curtain wall plays a key role at the National Automotive Innovation Centre.
Kawneer glazing systems showcase leading-edge automotive research
Kawneer's curtain wall plays a key role at the National Automotive Innovation Centre.
Aluminium curtain walling by leading UK manufacturer Kawneer, has helped an award-winning and cutting-edge combination of industry and academia achieve a BREEAM "Excellent" rating.
The National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC), at the University of Warwick, is one of the largest centres of its kind in Europe, and a partnership between WMG (University of Warwick), Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors UK and features Kawneer's AA®110 mullion-drained curtain wall.
The curtain wall system with 65mm sightlines, occasional fritting and in places a translucent inner layer, has been used at triple height on the entrance façade, as ribbon glazing on the ground and third floors, and as roof lights underneath the over-sailing roof.
Delivered between January 2015 and August 2018, using BIM by main contractor Balfour Beatty, the project was the first live construction site to trial BIM-based meeting space and such was the success of BIMspace, a next-generation facility camouflaged in a site cabin, it won BIM Initiative of the Year at the Building Awards.
Designed to provide a national focus for expertise in automotive R&D, it accommodates up to 1,000 technologists, academics, designers, students and engineers, with the aim of fostering collaboration to develop and utilise new breakthrough vehicle technology.
The L-shaped building is four storeys high and is 33,000m2, with a full-height atrium and a glulam and steel composite diaphragm roof. The Kawneer glazing, which plays a key role in the project by allowing natural light to penetrate the deep-plan building and providing views in as well as out, was divided into several equally key components.
At the entrance façade, the quadruple-height Kawneer curtain walling clearly demarcates the public entrance area to the building, allowing for views in and out from the main entrance space/exhibition, while triple-height glazing mirrors the glazed wall to the engineering hall directly inside the building. Glazing in this area is bolted back to full-height rectangular steel sections and interfaces with revolving doors at ground level.
The ground-floor ribbon glazing linking into the entrance facade glazing, wraps around the main public front to the building, providing a fully-glazed facade to the cafe as well as the student projects space.
Generally single storey in height with elements of double storey glazing at key points along its length, some panes of glass are fritted at 60% grey to provide shading, and in more commercially sensitive areas and service areas, an interlayer was added to make the panels translucent. Incorporated into the Kawneer system are a series of glass louvres controlled by an actuator providing smoke ventilation in case of a fire in the exhibition area.
On the majority of the third floor, a ribbon of capped curtain walling provides a visual break between the timber cladding panels and the glulam roof which appears to float over the building, while allowing the third-floor office spaces to take advantage of panoramic views into the surrounding landscape. Here, the Kawneer curtain walling also deals with the deflection of the dramatic glulam roof which can deflect by up to 50mm.
The Kawneer capped curtain wall also forms punched windows in the brickwork and timber cladding panels, allowing natural light into, and views out of, offices, key working spaces and stairwells. Here, the system allows for deflection of the timber cladding panels, with glass louvres incorporated into the Kawneer system in the stairwells to provide smoke ventilation in case of fire.
Finally, the Kawneer curtain wall forms roof lights in the design studios, providing north lights in a series of single and double-height design spaces.
Glazing mullions were positioned to reflect the rhythm of the anodised aluminium mesh cladding around the first and second storeys, and the curtain walling was powder coated to match the colour of the structural steel elements of the building.
Environmental sustainability influenced the choice of materials and construction methods, including the in-situ concrete frame and glulam roof structure which was renewably sourced with low embodied energy. The roof also houses 1,900m2 of photovoltaic panels to reduce the energy load.
Cullinan Studio, who were the architects, said: "We needed to meet green guide ratings for our BREEAM assessment and the Kawneer curtain walling helped us achieve this.
"The materials - anodised aluminium, glass, glazed brickwork and engineered timber - are enduring and can be built with a high degree of precision - all project excellence in engineering.
"The silicone jointing along the ground-floor glazing and entrance facade helped create the illusion of a seamlessly glazed wall while simultaneously dealing with the movement of the building. In order to achieve the double and quadruple-height areas of glazing, the system was fixed back to steel sections."
For more information on Kawneer products and how they can help benefit your next project please visit www.kawneer.co.uk.
