With architects and the British regulatory authorities putting ever-increasing demands on the performance of glazing and opening vents, Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems have developed and rigorously tested their double glazed aluminium window systems to meet the very latest performance and specification demands, ensuring their manufacturers and installers, and indeed developers and property owners, have a future proof solution.
The Comar range of aluminium fenestration solutions, particularly their 5P.i and Comar 9P.i High Performance window systems, offers specifiers a comprehensive single source solution that achieves an increased range of window sizes. To achieve this Comar Systems have two profile ranges available: standard and heavy duty. Firstly, Comar 9P.i has a top projected casement window system with slim 84mm profiles that offers maximum heights of 2500mm. Secondly, Comar 9P.i Tilt and Turn offers side hung, bottom hung or tilt and turn at a maximum height of 2400mm. Also Comar 9P.i Parallel Opening offers opening vent sizes of up to 3000mm. Depending on the type of build, these configurations can offer a solution for maximum air-exchange, smoke ventilation and restricted ventilation with lockable handles for cleaning inside and outside.
Comar 9P.i aluminium also offers optimum heightened performance in terms of weather and security. Their 9P.i windows achieved market leading results in terms of water tightness at 900Pa; this ensures that even in the most demanding locations Comar 9P.i will maintain its water integrity. Security concerns are alleviated with the system exceeding the requirements of PAS 24:2012. Added to this, Comar 5P.i, Comar 9P.i and Comar 5P.i ECO windows hold Kite-marks for both systems supply and security. Comar is also a Secure by Design license holder for it’s commercial aluminium window systems.
With regard to Document L and future Building Regulations thermal efficiency standards, Comar 9P.i has been designed to create a future-proof solution. Comar 9P.i incorporates Comar’s trademarked P.i Polyamide Insulation, creating a thermal break of 34mm. This high performance P.i can be augmented with thermal foam, offering even lower U-values. Comar’s Technical Department in the UK back this up with project specific U-values and modelling. With the latest enhancements Comar 9P.i tilt turn can achieve a U-value of 0.99 W/m2K for a CEN size window and for a CEN size Comar 9P.i fixed light, 0.76 W/m2K.
Comar aluminium 5P.i ECO double glazing offers achieves a Green Guide rating of ‘A+’, providing points for BREEAM ratings and an ‘A’ Grade Window Energy Ratings (WER) with a standard double glazed unit.
Integrated solutions are a cornerstone of Comar Systems double glazing design. Comar 9P.i Casement, Tilt/Turn and Parallel windows are part of a larger commercial and domestic windows system. The windows can be stand alone, but they also have their own high performance framing system, which offers ladder or mitre frame construction in 80mm or 120mm sections. This allows the completion of floor to ceiling window wall glazing, designed with a maximum height (depending on wind loading) of up to 3000mm. Comar 9P.i provides a value engineered solution by using the framing as an outer-frame: Comar 9P.i windows directly from the frame, therefore only two frames are required; older solutions required an additional outer frame. In effect, Comar 9P.i reduces the cost of opening vents into aluminium framing by a third.
To complete this extensive solution, Comar 9P.i offers two aluminium door options: rebated and rebated with anti-finger trap stile. These aluminium door sets are available in single or double, open-in and open-out and have surpassed the requirements of PAS 23 at 600Pa for air and water and PAS 24:2012 enhanced security. Again, these aluminium double glazed doors offer a stand-alone option as well as seamless integration into a framed facade.
Working with UK architects Comar currently have a range of double glazed commercial aluminium profiles in development for project specific solutions that will be added into their standard range. This provides specifiers with the reassurance that Comar will develop new aluminium profiles to achieve even their most demanding design briefs for UK properties, both now and in the future.
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