Built by WW Martin of Ramsgate, Goat Lees Primary School, in Kennington, near Ashford, Kent has won the LABC award for Best Educational Building in the South East. For the project, Soundcraft supplied internal doorsets, with the doors veneered in European white oak. Most of the doors were FD30, manufactured under the Exova BM Trada
Soundcraft completed the supply and installation of almost 400 security front entrance doorsets (FEDs) for the Royal Borough of Kingston in June. The project was phase 1 of a two phase programme totalling over 2000 doors. The specification called for Secured by Design (SBD) FEDs providing FD30 fire resistance coupled with FSC® chain of custody
Nearly 2 weeks in, Soundcraft Chairman, Kevin Smith, along with good friend Tim Green share their journey so far of the longest and toughest adventure of their lives, fundraising for the remarkable charity O2e – Ordinary to Extraordinary. The adventure began when arriving in Vancouver to grey clouds, wind and rain – not the start
In response to increasing levels of business in Soundcraft’s Communal Security Door Division, Adam Castle has been appointed Assistant Project Manager. Adam’s role will be to assume principal responsibility for the Division’s surveying activities, in addition to project managing installations of timber and steel portcullis doors and screens, including the SBD Integrity range of fully
Graham Rogers joined Soundcraft as Technical Estimator at the beginning of May 2014. Graham has twenty years’ experience in the construction industry. He started as an apprentice with Wallis, gaining City & Guilds in Carpentry & Joinery. His career took him to Denne and Howard Bros, specialising in surveying and estimating. Graham has worked on
Soundcraft Chairman, Kevin Smith, who along with good friend Tim Green, will set off on June 13th on the longest and toughest adventure of their lives, fundraising for the remarkable charity O2e – Ordinary to Extraordinary. O2e have raised literally hundreds of thousands of pounds to make a difference to the lives of needy, serious
Fully Glazed SBD Communal Security Doors Soundcraft has renewed its Secured by Design (SBD) license for the Integrity Range of Steel Communal Security Doors, following successful factory audit inspection and testing by Exova Warrington. The testing was to STS 202 (which is similar to LPS 1175); Burglar Resistance Level 2 (BR2) was achieved. This ensures
After the success of Phase 1 of the fire door upgrade works on the Abbey Wing of St Peters Hospital, Soundcraft was pleased to return for Phase 2. The existing fire door sets date back to 1974 and required upgrade in line with Health Technical Memorandum (HTM58), DH Health Building Notes and, of course, building
Soundcraft Performance Doors and Windows made significant investment in new machinery for the fabrication of SAS Hybrid composite windows, doors and curtain walling in the latter months of 2012. The new capacity has lead, not only to exciting new projects and orders for Soundcraft, but to the replacement of the old windows in the Company’s
In January Soundcraft finished a major two year fire door project for Kingston University. Over 3500 fire doors were involved. The value of the contract was £815,000. The works included the installation of over 500 new white laminate faced fire doors providing FD30S and FD60S fire resistance. In addition, timber fire rated screens and doors