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WindowMaster Helps Monmouth School Attain Highest BREEAM rating

The Rogiet Primary School in Monmouthshire, which achieved the highest BREEAM score in the UK, features a natural ventilation and window control system supplied by WindowMaster.


The secret of good acoustics is in the timing for WindowMaster

WindowMaster is supplying natural ventilation systems for two of the schools being constructed by the Newham Learning Partnership (NLP).


Good design isn’t over until the WindowMaster fat ladies sing

WindowMaster has launched a new high performance chain actuator for large and heavy windows.


WindowMaster Helps Derbyshire Build Schools for the Future
WindowMaster is supplying natural ventilation and control systems in to schools being built in the first phase of a ten-year Building Schools for the Future programme. All 53 schools in Derbyshire to be constructed under the scheme will feature natural ventilation and control systems.

 


Newsletter April 2010

WindowMaster Takes Centre Stage at the Young Vic
Audiences at London’s Young Vic theatre are able to keep their cool during crowded intervals thanks to a natural ventilation system supplied and serviced by WindowMaster. WindowMaster provides service and maintenance for the theatre’s natural ventilation systems to ensure that it runs smoothly throughout the season, helping performers, audience and front of house staff stay cool and breathe easy.

 


WindowMaster Helps Reduce Emissions at South Cheshire College

WindowMaster is to supply and install an automated window control system for the new £57 million South Cheshire College.


WindowMaster helps South London school attain CABE’s ‘Excellent’ rating

The first phase of the new Stockwell Park High School being constructed in Lambeth is the first in the government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme to receive an Excellent rating from the Committee for Architecture and the Built Environment. The natural ventilation system specified for the building was supplied and installed by WindowMaster.

 


WindowMaster helps freshen up Bristol regeneration project

The contract to install natural cooling and ventilation control systems in a new skills academy currently under construction in Bristol has been awarded to WindowMaster.

 


Versatile WindowMaster Ventilates Mallow Care Centre naturally

A new €25 million primary care centre (PCC) in Mallow, County Cork, which is set to open in January 2010 features natural ventilation and an automated window control system from WindowMaster.


University has grand designs to build a house of straw

Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That’s what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panels on campus.


Recession busting WindowMaster has a record eight months

 

WindowMaster has posted record breaking figures in the UK for the first eight months of 2009 despite the recession, which has hit the construction industry hard over the past 18 months.


WindowMaster Install Anti-entrapment System in Dublin Hospice

A new €10 million 50-bed hospice built on the site of the Harold’s Cross Hospice in Dublin features an automated window system with built in anti-entrapment from WindowMaster.


Southampton City College redevelopment is naturally ventilated by Windowmaster

Southampton City College (www.southampton-city.ac.uk) is currently part way through a full redevelopment of its St Mary's Street campus. As part of a total investment in the project of £43.2 million WindowMaster is supplying natural ventilation control systems for various buildings around the campus.


WindowMaster gets full marks for intelligent window automation system

WindowMaster has designed and supplied the natural ventilation and window control systems for a prestigious design academy in Liverpool. The systems will regulate temperature and air quality with minimal expenditure of energy.


WindowMaster delivers ace service at Wimbledon

Before the tennis stars took to the courts for this year’s Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), WindowMaster undertook its annual inspection of the window control system installed at Wimbledon's No.1 Court.


WindowMaster helps pupils at new Crawley school breathe easy

A new £19 million secondary school in Crawley, West Sussex, features a natural ventilation and window control system designed and supplied by WindowMaster.


Acoustic study nets WindowMaster full marks for its window automation system at Bristol Academy

The new £23 million academy in Bristol features a natural ventilation and window control system designed and supplied by WindowMaster.


WindowMaster helps Leicester Gateway project keep its cool

A £24 million project to relocate Gateway College in central Leicester to new purpose-built facilities on a 12-acre site in Hamilton, to the north of the city, is underway. The move will increase capacity at the sixth form college to 1,500 students, 250 more places than currently available.


WindowMaster prepares fresh air for private sector school

A new £3.7 million independent preparatory school in Monmouth features a natural ventilation and window control system designed and supplied by WindowMaster.


Galway Webworks development breathes easy with WindowMaster

A new multi-use development in the Republic of Ireland has been completed in the city of Galway. The Galway Coach Station/Webworks development comprises a car park, intercity coach station with mezzanine restaurant and a mixed use development of three upper floors housing 48 apartments and an Enterprise Ireland IT commercial centre with glazed internal atrium.


Natural ventilation system gives a breath of fresh air to Ireland’s Environment Protection Agency
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) in the Republic of Ireland has extended its headquarters and refurbished its existing office building.

A breath of fresh air for Copenhagen’s Indian elephants
The Indian elephants in Copenhagen Zoo can breathe more easily in their specially designed stables thanks to a natural ventilation system installed by WindowMaster.  January 2009

Top marks for WindowMaster ventilation system
WindowMaster, Europe’s largest provider of natural ventilation solutions, has developed and installed natural cooling and ventilation control systems utilising over 1,000 separate motors at two new Nottinghamshire schools.

Study reveals retail energy-saving potential of natural ventilation
There is huge potential for energy saving in shopping centres by using a combination of natural and mechanical ventilation to maintain indoor environmental quality (IEQ), according to a new study.

The heat is on as WindowMaster launches new heat exchanger
WindowMaster has launched a versatile new heat exchange system as part of its natural cooling and ventilation control systems.  Called ZoneVent™, the new system allows WindowMaster to offer a truly all-year round system that provides cooling in the summer months and enables energy efficient heating in the winter months for spaces which require more than just pure natural ventilation.

Lee Vally offers fresh oplympic venue
Twelve months experience of using WindowMaster’s innovative natural cooling and ventilation system has strengthened the bid by London’s Lee Valley Athletics Centre (LVAC) to become a major athletics training site for the 2012 Olympics. (December 2007)

Natural ventilation system developed for Luton’s Innovation and Business Base
Luton’s Innovation and Business Base (IBB) is using a natural ventilation control system, designed and installed by WindowMaster, to maintain a comfortable internal working environment.
(November 2007)

WindowMaster lets in the fresh air in Iceland’s largest hotel
Iceland’s largest hotel has just installed a system from WindowMaster to automatically open bedroom and meeting room windows when it is necessary to refresh the air in the rooms.
(November 2007)

WindowMaster gets full marks for intelligent window automation system
WindowMaster’s ability to provide complete monitoring and control systems for automated windows has led the company to secure two major contracts to design and supply window control systems for two new academies being built in the south of England.
(July 2007)

WindowMaster develops Natural Ventilation system to Hadley Learning Community
WindowMaster has designed and installed a natural ventilation control system at the pioneering Hadley Learning Community (HLC) in Telford.
(July 2007)

VKR Holding acquires UK company
VKR Holding is now expanding its business area for Natural Ventilation through the acquisition of Monodraught Ltd.
(May 2007)

WindowMaster develops smoke control system for new street square redevelopment
WindowMaster is developing and installing a smoke ventilation control systems to operate over 2,000 windows at London’s New Street Square redevelopment.
(May 2007)

WindowMaster’s intelligent motors protect against entrapment at new school
A new £3.8 million primary school in Monmouthshire will have automated windows from WindowMaster installed to help it achieve a ‘very good’ BREEAM rating.  It will also incorporate the company’s anti-entrapment system to prevent pupils from being injured as windows close.
(May 2007)

WindowMaster uses intelligent motors to protect against entrapment
WindowMaster is now able to offer a unique system that limits the possibility of people being trapped in automated windows.  The WindowMaster NV Advance™ solution, used in conjunction with a suitable window profile, can meet the requirements the European norm EN 60335-2-103.
(April 2007)

Natural Ventilation in the Garden of Eden
WindowMaster has supplied Natural Ventilation to an unusual building in England: the new Eden education centre.

New strong window operator!
WindowMaster is launching a new compact and powerful operator with a very attractive price/performance relationship.


Updated product catalogue
We have just updated our online product catalogue. Please click to see our products as well as technical data and drawings

New brochure: Intelligent facades - Product solutions for window automation
WindowMaster has produced a new brochure describing the benefits of our extremely flexible product platform and project specific solutions that live up to all the requirements of modern facades. 


WindowMaster launches new window operator in the WMI series
The new WMI 101 operator for inward opening windows replaces the two previous products WMI 100 and WMI 102. The most essential features are now combined in one window operator.


Radical research concerning Natural Ventilation
Scientists working on how best to ventilate office buildings have come up with a radical solution - open the windows!

Teaching Environment of the Future
In Cheshire the building of a new primary school - Kingsmead Primary School – is exemplifying the ideas of the Re-Thinking Space™ design concept. The project philosophy is based on a wish to encompass the principles of sustainability whilst providing an exemplar design to meet the 'Classrooms of the Future' status. One of the means for fulfilling this philosophy is the control of Natural Ventilation by the NV Advance™ system from WindowMaster.

Natural Ventilation deals with the heat
A comfortable indoor climate is achieved by means of Natural Ventilation, even on warm summer days. NCC, one of Denmark’s largest contracting companies, knows this from experience. Last summer the company’s new Danish headquarters had to stand the test of the summer heat – and the indoor climate controlled by Natural Ventilation came out with flying colours.
(August 2003)

New brochure - Natural Ventilation with NV Advance™
WindowMaster has produced a new brochure describing the many possible solutions for Natural Ventilation based on the unique control system NV Advance™.

Natural Ventilation deals with the heat
A comfortable indoor climate is achieved by means of Natural Ventilation, even on warm summer days. NCC, one of Scandinavia's largest contracting companies, knows this from experience. Last summer the company’s new Danish headquarters had to stand the test of the summer heat – and the indoor climate controlled by Natural Ventilation came out with flying colours.


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