How to Brief a Glazing Contractor on an Atrium Project
Three quotes for the same atrium can arrive with a spread wide enough to make you doubt they looked at the same building. Usually they didn’t, in any meaningful sense, because the brief left each of them to decide what the job was. A good brief doesn’t need technical language. It needs to pin down […]
Office Atrium Glazing and the Return to the Workplace
Office atria had a strange few years. Buildings that were designed around a busy ground floor sat largely empty, maintenance budgets got trimmed because nobody was there to be inconvenienced, and the glass roof over the lobby dropped a long way down everyone’s list. Occupancy has come back, unevenly but genuinely, and a lot of […]
Upgrading Atrium Glass for Thermal Performance
Ask the facilities team in a building with a large atrium where the energy goes, and the glass roof is usually high on the list. They’re generally right, and it’s not only a winter problem. The same roof that bleeds heat in January turns the space into a greenhouse by late June. Upgrading it is […]
Cracked Atrium Glass: Repair or Replace?
Someone spots a crack in an atrium roof and the first question is always whether it can be repaired. It’s a reasonable question to ask about most building elements. For overhead glass it has a short answer, and the short answer is usually no. That’s worth understanding properly, because the follow-up questions are the ones […]
Peterborough Web Design vs. Website Redevelopment: What You Need to Know
web designer peterborough When you’re weighing options for your online presence, a web designer Peterborough can be the difference between a good site and a truly effective digital asset. A skilled local designer understands the regional market, user behaviours, and the prevailing design sensibilities that resonate with audiences around Peterborough and the surrounding area. The […]