Grand Hotel, Brighton
29th May 2018

CORNWALL GLASS has supplied more than 1,000 IGU’s for the refurbishment of Brighton’s iconic Grand Hotel.

Working with David Salisbury Commercial for main contractor SEH Commercial, the 18-month project completed at the end of March, involved the to supply more than 450 windows and doors.

The building was originally completed in 1864, re-built in part after the 1984 bombing, with a multitude of remedial works delivered along the way.

Joe Marsh, David Salisbury commercial account manager, said of the challenges the contract involved: “No two rooms are quite the same so each window and door was bespoke.

“The other thing was that until work actually started it was sometimes difficult to expose the reveal and understand the specific requirements of the building.”

“This created a set of challenges in window fabrication combining requirement for bespoke and exacting manufacture of individually sized windows, alongside the demand for volume generated by a large scale commercial project.”

This also placed a requirement for a high degree of flexibility plus high capacity manufacture on Cornwall Glass, he added. “We needed a supply partner that would work closely with us but which manufactured IGU’s to the exacting standards a high degree of quality that we needed.”

“We were dealing with some very large volumes of glass, while the glazing window was very narrow so we needed the quality to be there from the outset, in order to guarantee fulfilment.”

Cornwall Glass supplied almost 1,000 double-glazed units to David Salisbury Commercial over the two-year project period. Specified to deliver a U-value of 1.0W/m2K, the argon-filled units, were manufactured from 4mm TGH Planitherm One with a 16mm cavity and white warm-edge spacer bar.

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