Clearview South October 2013 - Issue 143 | Page 26

industrynews CHINESE CLADDING GIANT TAKES FIRST UK SKYSCRAPER JOB World top five-ranked cladding contractor Far East Global Group has won its first highrise project in the UK to clad a central London block of flats for Lend Lease. Far East Façade UK, a subsidiary of the leading curtain wall specialist, has won the coveted contract to design and supply curtain walling for a 37-storey tower at London’s Elephant and Castle regeneration project. The ‘One the Elephant’ mixed-use tower forms part of Southwark council’s massive regeneration programme for the area. It is the second Chinese cladding contractor to have secured work in the city, fellow Chinese specialist Yuanda has already bagged three big tower schemes in London. The Lexicon project is presently in the ground with Morrisroe building the basement. Lend Lease chose Far East Façade for the project following a highly competitive bid process. The UK subsidiary’s parent arm provided the curtain walling for the world’s tallest building, the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Managing Director of Far East Facade, Peter Walker, said: “This is an exciting challenge for our London team, with Squire and Partner’s design includes some really interesting architectural elements, as well as being a Code 4 sustainability build.” Source: constructionenquirer.com PATIO DOOR BOOSTS SALES Dekko Window Systems has seen sales of its Kömmerling window and doors increase significantly, including the highly impressive PremiLine patio door, since becoming part of its UK fabricator network in 2012. More recently, the introduction of the PremiLine patio door has done much to boost sales, along with the launch of the run through sash horn for the Kömmerling O70 Gold window system. The O70 Gold window and door system has proven to be a firm favourite with the customers of Bredbury based fabricator, thanks to the highly energy efficient 5 chambered design, wide range of foiled options from stock and other key features. Given the innovative design of the outer frame, which is 70mm deep tapering out to 80mm to accommodate the sash, it can be easily coupled to any Kömmerling 70mm frame and benefits from a large range of ancillaries. Additionally outer frames can be either welded or mechanically jointed. The run through Sash Horns have also been a welcome addition to the Kömmerling product range for Dekko. The PremiLine patio door is the perfect match to the C70 and O70 Gold systems. For Kömmerling, call 01543 444900, e-mail [email protected], visit www.kommerling.co.uk or follow @ kommerlinguk on Twitter. LETTER TO THE EDITOR SHOWING PARTY SUPPORT Dear editor, The British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC) recently announced it would no longer be providing a list of validated conductivity values for warm edge spacers. The responsibility for testing warm edge spacers now lies with the Warm Edge Working Party, a voluntary group comp rising of many of the leading European warm edge spacer companies, of which Technoform Glass Insulation is a member. The group is run by German flat glass company, Bundesverband Flachglas (BF), with technical input from IFT Rosenheim and the Multi-Pane Insulating Glass Quality Association. 26 OCT 2013 There has been some confusion surrounding the conductivity values of some warm edge spacers and Technoform Glass Insulation is pleased to hear the Warm Edge Working Party will now be managing this important process. The Warm Edge Working Party is the warm edge industry’s leading authority and it will ensure all spacers are compared using “measured values” as opposed to “calculated values”, which is a much fairer method. No company should gain an unfair advantage through incorrect statistics, and the Warm Edge Working Party will put a stop to all confusion in the warm edge market. The warm edge data sheets can be viewed at: http://www.bundesverband-flachglas.de/shop/ kostenfreie-downloads/bf-data-sheets-english Yours sincerely, Simon Rawlins, Product Manager Technoform Glass Insulation To read more, visit www.clearview-uk.com