A DEPRIVED BUILDING AND LOCAL COMMUNITY RECEIVE SOMETHING TO GO‘ PING-PONG’ OVER
35 Cosway Street, was granted a Grade II * Listing in 1954. It is a distinctive deconsecrated church in the Lisson Grove Conservation Area. Greenhouse Sports was founded in 2002 as a sports coaching charity. Recently, they acquired 35 Cosway Street, located in one of the most deprived wards in London and have refurbished the building into a state of the art sport centre.
Latitude Architects was engaged to work on the plans for the renovation, which were undertaken in consultation with Historic England.
Surrounded by local shops, residential areas and community buildings including a school; sound insulation was imperative to stop noise escaping and disturbing local residents. The original single pane stain glass windows could not be changed, so did little to prevent the outbreak of noise. Therefore, Latitude Architects specified the use of secondary glazing to provide sound insulation.
Cosmur Construction( London) Ltd, experts in sensitive renovations of Listed buildings, were appointed as Main Contractor, who approached Selectaglaze to discuss the treatment and scheduling of secondary glazing works to the windows.
88 units were manufactured and installed, which were a combination of Series 42 fixed lights with curved and standard heads, as well as Series 80 3HS contra sliding units. Some of the Series 80 were 1.9m( h) x 2.3m( w) and weighed over 130kg when all assembled, so fixing points had to be checked for their strength to maintain integrity of the installation. The units came in 3 separate panes to enable manual handling and accessing the specific areas for installation.
Established in 1966 and granted a Royal Warrant in 2004, Selectaglaze is the leading specialist in the design, manufacture and installation of secondary glazing.
Selectaglaze will be exhibiting at 100 % Design 2018 in Olympia, London at Stand D325 on the 19th-22nd September.
For further information, please contact Selectaglaze on 01727 837271 / e mail: enquiries @ selectaglaze. co. uk or visit: www. selectaglaze. co. uk
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