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PRO INSTALLER JANUARY 2015
PRO NEWS
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Aluminium Windows
Winning Through
Over 1,000 high performance aluminium
windows and balcony
doors from Wicona
will be installed at a
new luxury residential
development now under
construction in London’s Docklands.
Image courtesy of The Ballymore Group.
Developed by Landor, a
subsidiary of The Ballymore
Group and under construction by Balfour Beatty, the
£110 million Providence
Tower scheme will have
spectacular views over
Canary Wharf, the River
Thames and the City of
London.
Designed by international
architects Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill, the development will provide 484
waterfront homes at New
Providence Wharf, a premium riverside precinct. The
majority of the apartments
will be in a 43-storey high
tower, with the remainder
located in the Bar Building,
an adjacent 12-storey curved
podium wing.
Due for completion in
2016, the 136m high tower
will have a distinctive elliptical shape and a ‘stepped’
appearance, echoing the
adjacent Ontario Tower. Its
innovative design maximises
views of the River Thames
and features balconies
that are positioned at the
open edge of each ‘peel’
to provide sun shading to
the apartments below and
to appear ‘woven’ into the
building envelope.
More than 650 WICLINE
75 evo side hung and fixed
light casement windows will
be used for the apartments
in the Bar Building. These
will be internally glazed
with trickle ventilation
through a fixed spandrel
or fixed transom above the
window. The windows also
meet Class RC2 and Class
RC3 for burglar resistance.
‘complex yet
attractive façade
designs’
Around 500 WICLINE evo
single-leaf, inward-opening balcony doors are to
be used for the tower. For
the low level curved Bar
Building, Wicona will supply 110 outward-opening
balcony doors with fixed
side lights. The doors for
both buildings will feature
a barrier-free threshold for
disabled access for Lifetime
Homes compliance and a
number will be delivered in
line with burglar resistance
to Class RC3.
The WICLINE evo window
and balcony door suite uses
a single system with common components to achieve
an almost unlimited range
of opening and design configurations whilst simplifying specification, fabrication
and installation. This allows
specifiers to realise complex
yet attractive façade designs
combined with a high level
of functionality and precision. There are options for
enhanced security, bullet
and burglar resistance,
thermal and weather performance, acoustic protection, open-in and open-out
systems, and a high quality
range of window fittings.
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