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Glazing systems from leading architectural aluminium supplier Kawneer have helped a new £24million school to achieve a BREEAM “Excellent” rating. Two types of Kawneer’s curtain walling are complemented by AA®601TE top-hung casement and AA®601TE parallel opening windows as well as AA®605 low/medium-duty swing doors and series 10D light/medium-duty commercial entrance doors at The Grange School in Runcorn. Just a few miles from Kawneer’s production facility, the new school features the Kawneer systems, including AA®100 and…

NG Bailey has completed and handed over the paper archive area of Manchester Central Library – marking a key technical milestone in the ambitious transformation of Manchester’s Town Hall Extension and Central Library. Hundreds of the library’s most historical paper documents have been returned to the archive, following the extensive work to refurbish the lower ground floor archive area as part of Manchester City Council’s project to transform the Grade II* listed buildings. This comes…

The University of Chester has worked alongside Hull furniture specialist, Claughtons Office Equipment Ltd, to add the finishing touch to the brand new North West Food Research Development Centre (The NoWFOOD Centre). The centre has been partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund and was officially launched in April 2014 to provide students and local businesses with a state-of-the-art food technology facility. Claughtons worked alongside the NoWFOOD Centre team to provide a range of…