What should blast-resistant glazing cost in Havant?
Guide prices for blast-resistant glazing in Havant 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.
Specification at a glance
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
- 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
- Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
Fitting in Havant and nearby
Whether you are in central Havant or at the edge of the PO9 district, we can arrange a survey. Nearby Waterlooville and Portsmouth are covered too.
Hampshire covers the port-city shops and offices of Southampton and Portsmouth, Winchester's listed centre, and commuter estates around Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Fareham.
Good candidates for blast-resistant glazing:
- Embassies, courts and police premises
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Government, council and civic buildings
- Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
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
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
- Tell us about the glazing
- Survey, measuring and frame check
- Written quote naming the glass
- Fitting and handover
Blast-resistant glazing in Havant: questions
Do you cover Waterlooville as well as Havant?
Yes. As well as Havant, we can arrange surveys in nearby Waterlooville, Portsmouth and Gosport. 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.
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 Havant
- Display case security glass
- Shopfront security glass
- Laminated roof and conservatory glass
- Broken glass replacement
- Security glass for doors
- Security secondary glazing
Get a guide price now and book your free survey in Havant.