Clearview National November 2018 - Issue 204 | Page 67
GLASS&SEALEDUNITS
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Morley Glass & Glazing has won a
£500,000 integral blinds contract
with Belfast City Hospital and saved
the hospital thousands of pounds.
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the hospital with its SL20 MB
system, which are motorised
blinds inside sealed units that
were specially developed with
two operating mechanisms –
one for the patient to control
inside their room, and a key
operated override system for
nurses to operate from the
corridor. The electric brushless
motor quietly raises, lowers and
tilts the integral blinds safely,
smoothly and with precision.
The integral blinds have
been installed at the new
£20m two-storey Acute Mental
Health Inpatient Unit which
has been purpose-built and sits
on a 3-hectare site within the
Belfast City Hospital estate.
It combines mental health
inpatient facilities previously
spread across three Belfast
sites.
Morley Glass & Glazing was
approached by the architect to
provide sealed units with integral
blinds inside for the new mental
health facility. The original
specification included a ceramic
frit to cover the spacer bars on
the windows, which the architect
felt were unsightly. Morley
MD Ian Short explains: “Once
we’d spoken to the architect
and shown him samples of our
Uni-Blind sealed units which use
Technoform warm edge spacer
bars, he was convinced that they
looked far more appealing than
other systems he’d seen on the
market and this decision saved
around £150 per unit.”
The new facility provides
80 acute mental health en-
suite bedrooms including six
psychiatric intensive care beds.
The unit consists of five separate
interconnecting buildings
arranged around a cloistered
central courtyard and communal
and administration areas.
Over one million metres of
warm edge spacer bars have been
supplied to Morley in the four
years since the business teamed up
with Technoform to introduce its
warm edge spacer bar technology
to its Uni-Blind double-glazed
sealed units with integral blinds
inside.
£500,000 hospital
contract for
integral blinds
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