Safe Retail Environments – The threat The retail sector has changed out of all recognition, with large shopping centres usurping the traditional High Street – becoming destinations offering everything you could possibly want to buy, eat, drink, or be entertained by. And that makes them extremely attractive places for another kind of visitor and although, […]
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Cardiff Central Station – New Blast Resistant Facades
Blast Resistant Facades A key element to the extensive refurbishment was the installation of fully glazed blast resitant facades and other high safety elements. Wrightstyle has completed this major upgrading project at Cardiff Central Station for Network Rail Wales. The completion follows a similar project at Cardiff Queen Street station, in a major programme that […]
An early Christmas warning – fire training
Lee Coates, the company’s technical director, looks at fire training in the build up to Christmas. Business Safety Week The UK Chief Fire Officers Association designated the second week of September as Business Safety Week. The initiative was to build on the goals set out in the association’s Business Safety Strategy that aims to reduce […]
Glass recycling
Denis Wright, the company’s chairman, says that glass is the most sustainable of building materials. Wrightstyle takes a look at glass recycling. Glass In Everything Glass is ubiquitous. In commercial buildings, it can form a major part of the external envelope. And for all buildings, as Le Corbusier remarked, the history of architecture is the […]
Light and glass in modern architecture
Light and glass go hand in hand. Most building materials have weight and mass, whether concrete, a brick or a length of structural steel. There is, however, one building material that has neither weight nor mass. Light in Architecture The Greeks called it Helios, the Romans Sol and, despite forming over 98% of the solar […]
