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One of these can catch fire and spread it up twenty floors in under half an hour if the wrong grade gets specified. That’s not a maintenance consideration, it’s the first question to settle. ACP, aluminium composite panel, cladding is lightweight, fast to install, and considerably cheaper than stone, generally…

This decision rarely comes down to a single clean number on a spreadsheet. It usually comes down to which of several separate problems is actually driving the conversation, and those problems don’t always point toward the same answer. A facility manager called us a few months into what he described…

Most glass door failures don’t happen suddenly. They happen slowly, over months, while everyone’s too busy to notice the door’s been closing a bit harder than it used to. Commercial glass doors and sliding systems need scheduled, proactive maintenance rather than reactive repair, because the components that fail, floor springs,…

A railing ends up doing more visual work on a building’s elevation than almost anyone expects going in, and picking the material by trend rather than by what the building’s already saying tends to show, usually not in a good way. An architect we’ve worked with called railings “the trim…