Out of Reach: Tackling Supersized Rooflight Installations
Oversized glazing is becoming a staple in modern design, with homeowners and architects pushing boundaries to flood spaces with natural light. But with larger rooflights comes a challenge—safe and precise installation.
At Howells Patent Glazing, we’ve adapted to this trend by developing a crane assessment method that ensures every lift runs smoothly. From site suitability and crane specification to weather checks and LOLER-certified stillages, we consider every detail before installation day.
Whether it’s mini cranes for domestic jobs or mobile cranes for vast apertures, our 50+ years of glazing expertise ensures safety, compliance, and flawless results.
Looking to bring more light into your next project? Get in touch with our team of specialists today.
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City Campus Gloucester – University of Gloucestershire’s Landmark Redevelopment
The University of Gloucestershire’s new City Campus in Kings Square has transformed the former Debenhams site into a vibrant hub for education, innovation, and community. Designed by ADP Architecture and delivered by Morgan Sindall, the project showcases bespoke rooflights and glazing by Howells Patent Glazing, bringing natural light into teaching, learning, and social spaces. Opened in August 2025, the campus is home to Education, Psychology, and Social Work programmes and forms a central part of Gloucester’s £200 million regeneration.
Howells Patent Glazing has supplied and installed a bespoke aluminium rooflight for Salford Museum & Art Gallery, improving natural light, thermal performance and interior comfort in the museum’s learning room.
Extensions remain a popular choice for home improvers whether it’s to the rear or to the side, single or two storeys, or up into the loft. Increasing the square footage adds value, but it is also a great way to enhance the property and living space within. A successful extension will provide extra living space, improve flow, and will often open the house up to the garden, above all, it must have plenty of natural light.
Extensions remain a popular choice for renovators whether it’s to the rear or to the side, single or two storeys, or up into the loft. Increasing the square footage adds value, but it is also a great way to enhance the property and living space within.
When you decide that an aluminium rooflight is the perfect addition to your project, surely finding the best supplier is all that needs to be done? So what are the benefits and pitfalls you must look out for?
