Soundcraft has secured Phase 2 of the Royal Borough of Kingston’s front entrance door programme. The contract, worth £1.6 million, involves the installation of over 1600 new timber doorsets. Work will continue through to November 2015. The doorsets are high performance, offering both FD30S fire resistance and Secured by Design security. The timber will be
ARJ Construction has placed its first order with Soundcraft for fenestration and façade works at its residential and commercial Muswell Hill project.
Composite, sometimes called alu clad, windows, doors and curtain walling systems are increasingly specified for multi-storey buildings.
During the Christmas Holidays Soundcraft’s offices and factory will close at mid-day on Wednesday 24 December and re-open at 8.00 am on Friday 2 January. However, limited production will take place in the manufacture of communal portcullis security doors, and aluminium curtain walling, to ensure that the New Year begins with the necessary momentum to
Soundcraft’s curtain walling order book received a welcome boost recently with a half a million pound order for SCW+ curtain walling and SD doors placed by Morgan Sindall. The project is at Trumpington College, Cambridge and is due to start in July 2015. Soundcraft expects to be on site for two months. SCW+ curtain walling
Soundcraft has recently completed replacing fully glazed aluminium entrance doors that originally were installed in the curtain walling system at the entrance of a new social housing development in Lewisham, south London. The doors formed part of the building’s door entry system. The original doors specified were access controlled, manufactured in aluminium. The doors opened
What are fan lights? Fanlights were introduced in the 1720s.They were originally a fixed window above a front door that, before the advent of electricity, enabled more light to enter the previously dark hallway. Early designs were in the shape of a fan, hence the name. A classic example is at 10 Downing Street. In
Soundcraft has recently completed the manufacture and installation of over twenty hardwood communal security portcullis doors and screens at the Meakin and Elim Estates, London, SE1. In addition to the doors and screens, Soundcraft also installed ramps and handrails complying with Part M. Each door was fitted with two Securitron 32 electromagnets, a surface mounted
Soundcraft has begun work on its new showroom for curtain walling, windows and doors. A range of composite windows has been installed featuring Hybrid Series 1 tilt & turn, reversible flush casement (overswing) and flush casement windows, plus examples of Hybrid Series 2 windows. Regarding curtain walling, the showroom will initially exhibit CWCT compliant Hybrid
Soundcraft has recently completed the upgrading and renewal of over fifty FD30S fire doors at Bethlem Royal Hospital, in Beckenham, Kent. The works, requiring a sensitive approach, was carried out in Longfield House, a specialist unit, which was occupied throughout. This was the latest of several similar projects carried out for the South London and
