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VELFAC windows have been installed at the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, an ambitious, 62,500m2 hospital – designed by architects BDP - that has already become a Liverpool landmark. As well as delivering clinical excellence, the hospital is designed to encourage wellbeing by acknowledging the importance of natural...

The Fitzjames Teaching and Learning Centre, built in the grounds of Hazelgrove Prep School, is deliberately designed to encourage independent learning and enquiry by balancing traditional classroom environments with open resource space. As part of a ‘fabric first’ approach to sustainability, architects Feilden Fowles...

VELFAC windows are a major feature at the innovative 360o Observatory at Cors Dyfi Nature reserve in Wales, recently voted Best Environment Project in the 2015 National Lottery Awards The multi-platform building uses large, slim framed VELFAC windows to deliver a panoramic vista of the nature reserve, and especially...

A small yet impressive development of four, five-bedroom houses features VELFAC composite aluminium / wood glazing in a series of distinctive stepped rear elevations with generous, full height sliding doors installed on the upper levels. VELFAC windows – and entrance doors - are also used in front facades to maintain...

Deaconess House, a major student accommodation project for the University of Edinburgh, features VELFAC windows in a series of impressive, innovative new-build accommodation linked to a refurbished Victorian hospital. The composite windows and doors are a distinctive element within the different facades of the...