Blast-resistant glazing in Peterhead

How much should I budget for blast-resistant glazing in Peterhead?

As a guide, allow £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m² for blast-resistant glazing in Peterhead, supplied and fitted. Size, glass makeup, access and frame condition move the price, which is confirmed in writing after the free survey.

Blast-resistant glazing is laminated glass fitted in a frame and fixing system designed to stay in the opening, or fail safely, when hit by the pressure wave from an explosion. Its purpose is to stop glass becoming high-speed fragments, which cause most injuries in a blast, and it is designed from a threat assessment rather than chosen off the shelf.

Choices you can make

Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer

Fitting in Peterhead

We arrange surveys and fitting in Peterhead and across the AB42 postcode district. Tell us your postcode and we will offer dates.

This area runs from Aberdeen's granite city-centre offices and shops to Aberdeenshire towns such as Inverurie and Peterhead and Elgin in Moray, with hard North Sea weather on the coast.

Common uses:

Government, council and civic buildings
Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Embassies, courts and police premises
Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks

What to think about first

Fragment hazard

Some designs accept that glass will break but keep it in place; others allow controlled failure into a catching system. Both aim to stop flying shards.

New glazing or retrofit

New facades can be designed as a full tested system. Existing buildings often get film with edge retention, internal secondary glazing or curtains instead.

Consents and safety: Scotland

Scotland

Glazing in workplaces

Regulation 14 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 applies in Scotland. Windows and transparent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates must be of safety material or protected against breakage where health or safety requires it, and marked so people see them. The duty holder's risk assessment decides where.

Fire-rated glass is different

Glass in fire doors and fire screens must be fire-rated glass tested within that system, under section 2 of the Building Standards technical handbooks and the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 for non-domestic premises. Security and laminated glass are not fire-rated unless the product is tested for it.

How it works

Guide price online or by phone
Survey in Peterhead
Accept the fixed quote
Fitted by glaziers working under our contract

Blast-resistant glazing in Peterhead: questions

Do you cover Fraserburgh as well as Peterhead?

Yes. As well as Peterhead, we can arrange work in nearby Fraserburgh. Dates depend on installer availability.

Who decides what level of protection we need?

Your security adviser, insurer or a blast engineer, based on a threat and risk assessment. Government guidance from the National Protective Security Authority covers the approach.

What does ER1 to ER4 mean?

They are explosion-pressure classes in BS EN 13541. Glass samples are tested in a shock tube, with higher classes meaning higher pressures. The class applies to the glass, so the frame must be designed to match.

Does blast glazing affect fire doors and fire screens?

Glass in fire-rated doors and screens must stay fire-rated glass tested in that system. Blast measures there need fire-rated products or a specialist design, never a swap to plain laminated glass.

Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns

Fraserburgh15 miles

Other glazing in Peterhead

Tell us about the glazing and we will come back with a guide price.