PVC-U and aluminium working together
November 2017

When a new-build special school required colour-coded windows with unusual bespoke reveals and cills, the solution came in a combination of PVC-U windows set in made-to-order aluminium surrounds by Birkenhead-based K2 ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS with the solution based on pressed aluminium cills and reveals around Veka frames from the Glazerite UK Group.

Palmerston School, Liverpool, is a special school for pupils aged 11 to 19 with multiple learning difficulties, and is now housed in the new-built premises. The windows are colour coded in red, blue, yellow and green to help pupils to navigate around the school and to identify different areas.
The work, for main contractor Kier Construction, entailed 55 windows, each with four top-openers, in RAL 7012 Basalt Grey foil of white. The aluminium elements were pressed and powder coated to order for K2 and also included an upright panel between each frame and cill to allow additional ventilation space beneath the lower openers. Also, five glazed doors were fabricated in Schueco aluminium.

K2 commercial manager Liam Bird explained: “It was quite an unusual specification but one where our background in both PVC-U and aluminium paid dividends. Working with Glazerite on the PVC-U fabrication and with our own experience of aluminium, we were able to complete the work to specification and without problems and the result speaks for itself.”

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