What should blast-resistant glazing cost in Brixton?
Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Brixton 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.
What goes into blast-resistant glazing
- Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
- Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
- Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
- Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
Fitting in Brixton and nearby
Surveys in Brixton (SW2) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Peckham (2 miles), Pimlico (2 miles) and Battersea (2 miles).
Greater London has every kind of glazing, from Georgian sashes and Victorian bays in conservation areas to high-street shopfronts, office curtain walling and new-build flats.
Good candidates for blast-resistant glazing:
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Embassies, courts and police premises
- Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Before the glass is ordered
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.
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.
Glazing rules in England
Glazing in workplaces
Regulation 14 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 requires windows and transparent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates to be of safety material or protected against breakage where health or safety makes that necessary, and to be marked so people notice them. The employer or the person in control of the premises decides what is needed through their risk assessment.
Planning permission
Changing the glass in an existing window or shopfront does not usually need planning permission, because the building looks much the same afterwards. A new or altered shopfront, or security features added to the outside of a building, may need planning permission from the council. Bollards or barriers on the pavement need the highway authority's consent, which is normally the council.
How it works
- Send sizes or use the quote tool
- Free survey at your Brixton address
- Fixed price in writing
- Glass made, then fitted
Blast-resistant glazing in Brixton: questions
Can you survey in Brixton and nearby towns?
Yes. Surveys in Brixton, Peckham and Pimlico are booked around installer availability.
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.
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.
Can existing windows be made blast-resistant?
They can often be improved. Anti-shatter film with an edge-retention system, laminated replacement glass in strengthened frames or internal secondary glazing can cut the flying-glass hazard, depending on the threat.
Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns
Other glazing in Brixton
- Security window film
- Security glass for home windows
- Misted unit replacement with laminated glass
- Laminated roof and conservatory glass
- Safety glazing for schools and public buildings
- Security glass for doors
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