Blast-resistant glazing in Lurgan: what will it cost?
Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Lurgan is £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m², including fitting. The survey is free for new installations and your fixed price follows in writing.
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.
Options for blast-resistant glazing in Lurgan
- Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
- Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
- Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
- Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
- Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
Fitting in Lurgan and nearby
Lurgan is about 2 miles from Craigavon, the main centre for County Armagh. We can survey and fit across the BT66 district and in nearby places such as Craigavon and Portadown.
County Armagh centres on Armagh's Georgian city, with the town-centre shops and older terraces of Portadown and Lurgan and rural villages across the orchard county.
Typical settings for blast-resistant glazing:
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
- Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Embassies, courts and police premises
Getting the right glass for your building
Who sets the level
The design pressure comes from a threat and risk assessment by a security adviser or blast engineer, not from the glass supplier.
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.
What the rules say in Northern Ireland
Fire-rated glass is different
Glass in fire doors and fire screens must be fire-rated glass tested within that system, under Technical Booklet E and, for non-domestic premises, the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 and Fire Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010. Security and laminated glass are not fire-rated unless the product is tested for it.
Glazing in workplaces
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 contain an equivalent requirement to Great Britain's: windows and transparent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates must be of safety material or protected where health or safety requires it, and marked so they are apparent. The employer's risk assessment decides where.
How it works
- Tell us about the glazing
- Survey, measuring and frame check
- Written quote naming the glass
- Fitting and handover
Blast-resistant glazing in Lurgan: questions
Which areas near Lurgan do you cover?
We can arrange work in Lurgan and in nearby Craigavon (2 miles), Portadown (5 miles) and Banbridge (8 miles). Dates depend on installer availability.
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.
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.
Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns
Other glazing in Lurgan
- Laminated roof and conservatory glass
- Broken glass replacement
- Glazing bead security upgrades
- Commercial reglazing
- Security secondary glazing
- Security double-glazed units
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