News

Taking shape

Our hotel project in Abu Dhabi is progressing well, with some of the glass already installed. The 250 meters long G+M+6+R floors high building will house a 5 star hotel to supplement the existing recreational facilities. The hotel is designed by Atkins an...

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ACP rain and real rain

At mid-November an other high-rise tower burnt down, allegedly started by cigarette butt igniting a pile of debris. Polyethylene core Aluminium Composite Panel (ACP) propagates fire quickly, in an unstoppable manner. Large pieces of burning cladding p...

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In the press

Construction Week interviewed us on our new Dubai project with TNQ Architects (see previous news item of 20th Nov). Read the Construction Week article here.

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First & first

In the first week of November we were awarded two firsts: our first Dubai design project and our first European project. While we carried out a number of third party checking reviews for under construction Dubai projects since Koltay Façades' 2011 star...

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Glasstec

Agnes and Brad have just returned from Germany, where they visited Glasstec and attended the "Engineered Transparency" conference. There are quite a few interesting new products this year out there, such as the new high strength sealants (DC TSSA, and...

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Crystals, fashion and ice

We have finished the design development, pre-engineering and documentation of three signature focus areas of a large shopping mall, in collaboration with Norr Architects, Dubai. Crystal Court features 3 "crystals", 5 story high geometric glass-only ob...

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