Pro Installer March 2020 - Issue 84 | Page 6

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NEW FABRICATOR
PROMISES ALUMINIUM
BI-FOLDS IN JUST SIX DAYS
6 Day Doors, the latest venture from Essex
based construction powerhouse the Chigwell
Group, promises to deliver market-leading
aluminium bi-fold doors in under a week.
Where most fabricators
offer aluminium bi-folds with
lead times of two to three weeks
if not longer, the new business
can provide them in just six days
– and if it doesn’t, your next
order is half-price.
“6 Day Doors does what it
says on the tin,” says Managing
Director Sunny Singh. “We’re
offering the industry leading
Smart Visofold 1000 bi-fold in
grey, white and black - and
when you buy one from us, it’ll
be with you in six days. The
door is available in other colours
of course, but on a longer lead
time.”
The obvious question of course
is how have 6 Day Doors man-
aged to commit to such a short
lead time?
“The truth is, there is no big
secret,” Sunny explains. “Frankly,
I think the industry has got used
to having to wait nearly three
weeks for aluminium doors, and
so no-one’s felt the need to invest
and speed that process up.
“What we’ve done is simple.
Using the resources and expertise
of the wider Chigwell Group,
we’ve acquired some cutting-edge
machinery and manned it with
some experienced and highly
motivated fabricators. It’s certain-
ly not easy, but it’s not hugely
complex either – if you’ve got
the willpower to do it, it can be
done.”
Sunny concludes: “If you want
to benefit from the huge de-
mand for quality aluminium door
products without the lengthy lead
times, give us a call.”
6 Day Doors is the latest
addition to the Chigwell Group
of companies, which includes
Chigwell Construction, Chigwell
Window Centre and Chigwell
Heating.
The company is offering other
products on longer lead-times,
including the Smart Visofold 6000
bi-fold and Visoglide Plus patio
door.
www.6daydoors.co.uk
Edgetech’s Super Spacer brings sustainability
to one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings
Edgetech’s world-
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renowned Super Spacer
has helped make one of
the world’s tallest wooden
buildings a beacon of ener-
gy efficiency.
HoHo Wien, located in
Vienna’s 22nd district, is a
modern marvel of timber
and state-of-the art tech-
nology.
The 82-metre, 24-storey
structure was the vision of
architects Rudiger Lainer
+ Partner, and designed to
offer a visually distinctive
and outstandingly sustaina-
ble space for hotels, restau-
rants, offices, apartments
and more.
The building’s 1,100
triple-glazed units all in-
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corporate Edgetech’s Super
Spacer T-Spacer, allowing
them to achieve U values
of just 0.5, and helping the
building save 2,800 tonnes
in carbon emissions com-
pared to a more conven-
tional structure of the same
size.
The building itself is a
wood-concrete hybrid con-
struction. The interior con-
sists of a solid reinforced
concrete core containing
staircases, elevators and
supply shafts, and prefabri-
cated solid wood structures
are arranged around it. The
wall and ceiling elements
made of spruce wood re-
main unclad to retain their
natural character.
Its exceptional environ-
mental performance has
seen the project receive
two highly prestigious ac-
colades – a gold LEED cer-
tification, and a gold award
from the Austrian Sustaina-
ble Building Council.
“We were delighted to be
involved in such a fantastic,
forward-thinking pro-
ject,” comments Edgetech
Managing Director Chris
Alderson.
“Pair Super Spacer’s ex-
ceptional energy efficiency
with an ingeniously-de-
signed, sustainably-con-
structed landmark like
HoHo Wien, and you’ve
got a template for the
architecture of the future.
We hope to work on many
more developments as
ground-breaking and ambi-
tious as this one in years to
come.”
www.edgetechig.co.uk