Clearview National January 2020 - Issue 218 | Page 60

GLASS&SEALEDUNITS
SMART STRUCTURAL
GLAZING CONNECTS
CUTTING-EDGE
UNIVERSITY COMPLEX
» “THIS IS NOT JUST A
new building ... this is a new
vision of education.”
That is how David A. Tepper,
the billionaire businessman
and philanthropist describes
the newly-opened home of
the business school that bears
his name at the prestigious
Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU).
The centrepiece of the
295,000 sq ft scheme is an
atrium lobby, whose multi-level
interior features a wide range
of spaces designed to facilitate
different interactions between
people, from large gatherings
to formal and casual meetings
between groups of any size.
This five-storey space is
flooded with natural light
thanks to a spectacular,
uninterrupted 51-ft-tall wall
of Pilkington Planar™ glazing
positioned above the entrance.
The clear façade glass is made
of large toughened glass units
that offer both low-emissivity
Getting ready for
FIT Show return
(low-e) insulation and solar
control in-order-to help control
the climate in the building and
help to reduce the reliance on
heating and air-conditioning.
The 10ft by wide 7ft 5in
units are made of Pilkington
Suncool™ 66/33 T and are
held in place with heavy-duty
stainless-steel countersunk
bolts, anchoring them to the
supporting glass fins.
pilkington.com/en-GB/uk
» AFTER ENJOYING A
successful outing at the 2019
FIT Show, integral blinds
manufacturer Morley Glass &
Glazing is getting ready for its
second appearance as exhibitor
when the 2020 show takes place
from 12th to 14th May.
Ian Short, Morley Glass &
Glazing managing director
said: “When we originally
decided to exhibit at the 2019
FIT Show it was mainly just to
have a presence and meet and
good quality leads that were
generated at the show.”
The business is hoping to
impress visitors to the show
with a 110m² exhibition stand,
more than double the size of
its 42m² stand in 2019, which
featured interactive tools to
highlight the benefits of high-
quality Uni-Blind sealed units
with ScreenLine integral blinds
inside.
In 2020 Morley will also
be introducing its new and
improved smartphone app,
created by home integration
company Loxone, after being
inundated with requests from
customers to help them easily
incorporate integral blinds
into electric-powered home
automation systems as well as
operate them from their tablet
or phone.
www.morleyglass.co.uk
WIGAN HAS A NEW WARM EDGE SPACER SITE
» AS PART OF THERMOSEAL GROUP’S
strategy to become a world leader in warm
edge spacer market, the Group has purchased
a new two acre production site in Wigan
– the location previously owned by Global
Glass. The new site is on Challenge Way,
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Martland Park in Wigan,
which is a stones-throw
from the Group’s
other Thermobar and
Thermoflex Warm Edge
Spacer manufacturing and
warehouse sites.
Thermoseal Group
Challenge Way site will now see
extensive reconstruction to provide
further expansion for: warm edge spacer
production; development of the Group’s
Technical Centre and EN1279 test facilities,
as well as enhanced facilities for the growing
production team.
Gwain Paterson, Managing Director
at Thermoseal Group, says: “This
Challenge Way development
has come just at the right time
to ensure that we can continue
to meet the increasing demand
for our energy efficient product
portfolio and meet the likely increase
in demand from the UK market brought
about by revisions to Document L. Should
this go ahead, the requirement for triple
glazing will mean double the volume of spacer
bar and fittings within each IG unit.”
www.thermosealgroup.com