24
JUNE 2015 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
Back to
School
A new Glazerite Windows Ltd customer, D&M Windows
and Doors, recently took a trip back to school to fit
Salterlee Primary School’s new Matrix 70 window system.
Originally built in
1877 the stones
which make the
Shibden Valley school
were locally quarried
by the families of
some of the first pupils. Since then generations of talented,
hard-working staff,
school councillors,
governors and PTA
members have strived
to uphold and embody
their Latin motto:
“Multum in Parvo”
(meaning “from a little comes a lot”).
MD of D&M, Mark Hoolickin visited the site to
pre-survey and finalise the
finer details to ensure his
fitting teams would perform to a high standard and
complete a first class jo b.
Impressed with the work,
the school’s head master
asked Mark to complete
another installation on the
school.
Claiming D&M to be a perfect match for them, Glazerite’s Sales Manager Peter
Smith was quick to sing the
praises of the Oldham-based
installer:
‘They’re also
great people to
work alongside’
“They have the expertise
to cope with small and large
contracts and do an exceptional job. They’re also great
people to work alongside,
hopefully they will be given
more opportunities to show
off their capabilities.”
www.glazeritewindows.
co.uk
Intelligent membrane cocoons
Glasgow University
The new Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow has
been constructed to BREEAM Excellent standards by a project team
embracing some of the best known names in the UK industry and
utilising an intelligent membrane from the range of Tremco illbruck
to help achieve the required airtightness and energy performance.
Linear Projects Limited was
the sub-contractor tasked
with wrapping the building’s
complex structure, featuring reinforced concrete and
composite panel elevations,
using the ME501. A total of
7,000 (sub-contractor says
3-4000) square metres of
ME501 was consumed in
completing the work.
Joe MacNamee of Linear Projects
recounts: “We had to apply the
ME501 to cement particle boards –
mounted on the SFS (steel framing
system) - as well as concrete surfaces, both external to the building and in some interior locations,
such as the staircases and plant
rooms. It also went across plasterboard internally.
“This was the first time we had
used the illbruck product – which
Glasgow University had specified
the use of – and the manufacturer’s technical representative car-
‘it went on
very easily’
ried out a demonstration for our
operatives prior to the installation.
We didn’t have to prime the surfaces and it went on very easily,
before most of it was hidden by
the copper coloured cladding.”
As a result of being preferred
to the EPDM product originally
specified, illbruck’s ME501 offers
the benefit of being fully vapour
permeable while assisting in making the structure highly airtight;
saving energy and contributing
to the ‘Excellent’ environmental
rating.
tremco illbruck encompasses
four brands in the UK after a
worldwide brand reorganisation
– more details can be found at
www.tremco-illbruck.co.uk. The
brands are TREMCO, illbruck
and Nullifire for the construction
business and PACTAN for the
manufacturing business.
The new Centre for Virus
Research at the University
of Glasgow