Glass above head height is treated differently in the regulations from glass in a wall, and for an obvious reason. A pane in a partition fails sideways. A pane in a roof fails downwards, onto whoever happens to be below it. What follows is a plain-English map of which parts of the regulatory framework apply […]
A glazed roof dropped over a Victorian courtyard, a former warehouse with its yard covered in, a museum wing joined to its neighbour by a glass link. These additions are everywhere in British towns, and most of them went in during the last thirty or forty years as a way of making an old building […]
Plenty of buildings get their atrium glazing inspected properly and then lose most of the value of it, because what came back was a paragraph saying the roof was in fair condition with some minor defects noted. That report tells the next person nothing. Fair compared with what? Which minor defects, and where exactly? A […]
Paperwork has a bad reputation on site, and some of it deserves the reputation. The generic method statement that could describe any job on any building, downloaded, logo swapped, dated. Everyone has seen one. Atrium glazing is where that habit stops being survivable. You’ve got people working at height, overhead glass above an occupied floor, […]