Blast-resistant glazing in Holloway

What should blast-resistant glazing cost in Holloway?

Guide prices for blast-resistant glazing in Holloway are £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m² for supply and fitting. We confirm a fixed price in writing after a free survey, before any glass is ordered.

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

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

Fitting in Holloway and nearby

We can arrange blast-resistant glazing anywhere in Holloway, and in nearby Highbury, Archway and Camden Town. Tell us your postcode and we will offer dates.

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:

Government, council and civic buildings
Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
Embassies, courts and police premises
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.

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.

Glazing rules in England

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

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

Blast-resistant glazing in Holloway: questions

Which areas near Holloway do you cover?

We can arrange work in Holloway and in nearby Highbury (1 mile), Archway (1 mile) and Camden Town (1 mile). Dates depend on 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.

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.

Is blast film enough on its own?

Film helps hold glass together but works much better when the film is anchored to the frame so the whole pane cannot fly in. Plain film without retention offers less.

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Other glazing in Holloway

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