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Date:	11th October 2007
Source:	Building Talk

 

 

EAG strikes out into Unitized Curtain walling as part of enhanced services

 

One of the UK’s leading curtain walling and cladding companies, English Architectural Glazing has made a significant  investment into Unitized Curtain Walling as part of a drive to offer enhanced services to new and existing clients.

 

Working with its sister company, Multi Fab, also based at the Suffolk HQ, EAG is currently installing the system at the London School of Economics. It’s the first time both firms have been involved with unitized systems.

 

Unitized curtain walling is a method of fabricating complete glazed clad frames in a controlled environment in the factory, instead of using the conventional method of erecting individual “stick” components on site.

 

The completed unitized elements typically 1.5m wide by storey height are delivered direct to the workface and installed as one. In the case of the LSE the glass has been bonded to the frame using structural silicone although more traditional pressure plated systems can be used just as easily. This system means a faster and more efficient level of service with units being prepared and distributed ready for installation.

 

EAG has already invested tens of thousands of pounds with Multi Fab in orders and new equipment for unitized curtain walling. Pre-Construction Director, Edward Whipp, said: “Unitized curtain walling gives us the chance to use alternative methods of installing curtain walling into major projects and offers our clients real choice to close the envelope of their buildings very quickly indeed. It’s part of our continued commitment to providing excellence and we are expecting a considerable volume of business for both ourselves and Multifab in the near future.”

 

Multi Fab is a separate subsidiary to EAG and operates for a number of clients who are in need of the firm’s fabrication expertise.  Multi Fab has also invested more than £50k on new machinery to assist with unitized bonding such as a manipulator for maneuvering glass panels into place, new adjustable mobile work benches which roll down a production line, a structural silicone dispensing pump plus specialised steel stillages to transport completed units to sites without the need for double handling.   

 

 

 

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