Blast-resistant glazing in Leamington Spa

Blast-resistant glazing in Leamington Spa: what will it cost?

Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Leamington Spa 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.

Choices you can make

Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
Sealed units with a laminated inner pane

Fitting in Leamington Spa and nearby

We can arrange blast-resistant glazing anywhere in Leamington Spa, and in nearby Warwick, Kenilworth and Coventry. Tell us your postcode and we will offer dates.

Warwickshire has the listed timber-framed centres of Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, Regency terraces in Leamington Spa, and Nuneaton, Rugby and business parks near the M40 and M6.

Typical settings for blast-resistant glazing:

Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
Government, council and civic buildings

Getting the right glass for your building

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.

What the rules say 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.

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

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

Blast-resistant glazing in Leamington Spa: questions

Which areas near Leamington Spa do you cover?

We can arrange work in Leamington Spa and in nearby Warwick (3 miles), Kenilworth (5 miles) and Coventry (8 miles). Dates depend on installer availability.

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.

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.

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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