Blast-resistant glazing in Nottinghamshire

How much should I budget for blast-resistant glazing in Nottinghamshire?

Expect £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m² for blast-resistant glazing in Nottinghamshire. The written quote names the glass makeup, the price and the lead time before you commit.

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

Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
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
Sealed units with a laminated inner pane

Covering Nottinghamshire

We can arrange surveys and fitting anywhere in Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham and Mansfield. Dates depend on installer availability. Choose your town below for local details.

Nottinghamshire mixes Nottingham's Lace Market warehouses and city-centre shops with Victorian terraces, post-war estates around Mansfield and Worksop, and Georgian Newark and Southwell.

Common uses:

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

Towns in Nottinghamshire

What to think about first

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.

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.

Consents and safety: 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.

Fire-rated glass is different

Glass in fire doors, fire screens and protected escape routes has to be fire-rated glass tested as part of that door or screen system, under Approved Document B and the fire safety duties of the building's responsible person. Laminated and security glass are not fire-rated unless the product says so. Where a pane needs both fire and security performance, it must be a product tested for both.

How it works

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

Blast-resistant glazing in Nottinghamshire: questions

Which towns in Nottinghamshire do you cover?

We can arrange work anywhere in Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark-on-Trent and Arnold, and in other towns across the area.

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.

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.

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.

Other glazing in Nottinghamshire

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