Roofglaze News
Roofglaze brings natural light to Norfolk's open academy
Due for completion in 2010, the 9,000m2 Academy will be a mixed 11–19 comprehensive community school, specialising in engineering and the environment. This is reflected in the highly sustainable design of the building, which features a cross-laminated timber structural system that will play a part in achieving a minimal carbon footprint.
The installation comprises thirty-one 1.934m2 rooflights; four measuring 1.266m2 and two rectangular units measuring 3.260m x 1.266m. These provide natural light to the school’s Open Forum: an area designed to allow full school assemblies to take place, under its unique domed timber roof.
The glazing specification of the rooflights has been selected to meet a combination of practical, aesthetic and legislative demands, covering energy efficiency, solar control and resistance to breakage.
The double glazed units feature toughened cool-light ST150 solar control outer glass with bio clean (self cleaning) surfaces. The 18mm cavities are Argon filled with black spacer bar and the inner glazing elements are clear laminated glass with low E coating, complete with a 124mm sandblasted border.
A 60 metre reach tower crane was used to lift and lower the rooflights directly into position on the dome of the roof.
Senior Project Manager for Kier Eastern, Robert Olley, said: “The rooflight installation has gone extremely smoothly and well within the build schedule. Credit goes to the Roofglaze site team in particular, as this was a complex and challenging project. The end result is stunning.”
May 2012
Recently completed projects this month, include a hip ended glass ridgelight at the Claremont High School in Harrow; another ridgelight at the Broadway Hotel in the Cotswolds, this time utilising the excellent Lonsdale glazing system; and a large glass pyramid at the Bicester Village retail outlet in Oxfordshire.
Our Flatglaze flat glass rooflights are keeping us busy with orders for domestic and commercial applications all over the country. Look out for some exciting new developments in the Flatglaze range over the coming months.
As members of NARM, the National Association of Rooflight Manufacturers, we uphold the highest standards and our products are fully compliant with The Building Regulations. You can find out more about why it pays to specify products from NARM members in our recently published NARM member leaflet.
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Richard Cliffe
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