Blast-resistant glazing in Lincoln

What should blast-resistant glazing cost in Lincoln?

Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Lincoln 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 you can specify

Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention

Fitting in Lincoln and nearby

We arrange surveys and fitting across Lincoln and the LN1 postcode district, and in nearby Gainsborough (14 miles), Newark-on-Trent (16 miles) and Sleaford.

Lincolnshire spans Lincoln's hilltop historic quarter, Georgian Stamford, market towns across the Wolds and Fens, and coastal resorts such as Skegness and Cleethorpes.

Good candidates for blast-resistant glazing:

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

Before the glass is ordered

Frame and fixings

The frame must hold the glass and the fixings must hold the frame. Upgrading glass alone can move the failure to the frame.

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

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.

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.

How it works

Send sizes or use the quote tool
Free survey at your Lincoln address
Fixed price in writing
Glass made, then fitted

Blast-resistant glazing in Lincoln: questions

Do you cover Gainsborough as well as Lincoln?

Yes. As well as Lincoln, we can arrange surveys in nearby Gainsborough, Newark-on-Trent and Sleaford. 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.

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.

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