Blast-resistant glazing in Newmarket

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

Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Newmarket 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

Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers

Fitting in Newmarket and nearby

Surveys in Newmarket (CB8) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Haverhill (11 miles), Cambridge (13 miles) and Bury St Edmunds (13 miles).

Suffolk ranges from Ipswich's waterfront offices and town-centre shops to timber-framed and Georgian streets in Bury St Edmunds, Lavenham and Woodbridge, and coastal Lowestoft and Felixstowe.

Common uses:

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

What to think about first

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.

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

Listed buildings and conservation areas

In England, listed building consent from the council may be needed to replace historic glass such as crown or cylinder glass, or to alter glazing bars, sashes and frames. Historic England publishes guidance on traditional windows. Secondary glazing and window film are often easier to agree because they can be removed later, but the council's conservation officer makes the decision.

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 Newmarket
Accept the fixed quote
Fitted by glaziers working under our contract

Blast-resistant glazing in Newmarket: questions

Can you survey in Newmarket and nearby towns?

Yes. Surveys in Newmarket, Haverhill and Cambridge are booked around installer availability.

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.

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.

Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns

Other glazing in Newmarket

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