Clearview National June 2015 - Issue 163 | Page 80

aluminium

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Record sales as aluminium
sector’s rise continues
»»Specialist aluminium
fabricator CDW Systems ended its financial
year in record breaking fashion, having
achieved 19% growth compared to the
previous year.
Over the course of the year, CDW Systems
has seen sales across the business increase, with
aluminium windows, doors, sliding doors and
curtain walling all performing well.
This strong end to the financial year follows
on from CDW’s record 2014. The specialist
aluminium supplier attributes its success to
a number of factors, the main one being the

continued growth of aluminium in both the
domestic and commercial markets.
Managing Director of CDW Systems, Jerry
Webb, comments: “Aluminium remains strong
in the commercial and domestic sectors,
particularly with bi-folding and sliding doors.
The education sector is a growth area for us
as councils release more money for school
building and refurbishments.”
CDW has made a number of investments to
ensure its manufacturing processes run smoothly
and product quality is maintained, even as they
take on more business across multiple markets.

This includes the introduction of a second
shift to meet rapidly increasing demand, as
well as current plans to recruit additional staff
to join the 60 strong team CDW currently
employ.
www.cdwsystems.co.uk

MORE AWARDS FOR MULTI
AWARD-WINNING ACADEMY
The widely-acclaimed Pegasus Academy at
Whitehorse Manor in Surrey, which was designed by
Hayhurst & Co and features a series of architectural
aluminium glazing systems from Technal, has won
another award for archit ecture and design.
»»The two-phase project, which
has remodelled and expanded Whitehorse
Manor Junior and Infant Schools to create an
inspiring academy, has now been recognised
with a Civic Trust Award 2015. This follows
an RIBA Award (London category), the
Schools Award in the AJ Retrofit Awards, Best
Public Sector Interior at the FX International
Interior Design Awards, and the scheme was
shortlisted in the New London Awards.
The school’s innovative design brings
together a fragmented site with a series of

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extensions that thread new teaching spaces
through a complex fabric of early 20th century
buildings. The expansion includes a new
nursery, six new classrooms, an enlarged hall,
and a new entrance and administrative areas
that link the two existing buildings.
Technal’s façade systems were specified
for both phases of the project and used
throughout.
Fixed light windows were installed in
varying sizes into the building’s striking
gold shingle cladding and into the nursery’s

distinctive pitched roof which echoes the
Victorian dormer windows to the infant
hall. Ribbon glazing created from the same
aluminium window system wraps around the
nursery, set into curtain walling, to fill the
rooms with natural light.
All Technal’s façade systems were fabricated
and installed by Everglade Windows and were
finished in a dark green polyester powder
coating with clear toughened glass units.