Curtain Walling · Suffolk

Curtain Walling in Lowestoft

Looking for curtain walling in Lowestoft? S&K Glazing has been installing across Suffolk for over a decade. Curtain walling is the structural glazing system used for office facades, hotel exteriors, hospital entrances and modern commercial buildings.

Local service: Lowestoft, Suffolk
Warranty: 10-year insurance-backed
Airport: Norwich Airport (NWI)
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Why choose S&K for curtain walling in Lowestoft

  • Stick-built and unitised systems available
  • Schüco, Smart and Reynaers — fully tested and certified systems
  • Structural silicone, capped, semi-unitised and SSG options
  • Integrated opening vents, parallel pushouts and tilt-and-turn
  • Acoustic and thermal performance to commercial spec (U-values from 1.0 W/m²K)

About the service

Curtain walling is the structural glazing system used for office facades, hotel exteriors, hospital entrances and modern commercial buildings. S&K Glazing supplies and installs Schüco FWS 50/60, Smart Wall and Reynaers CW 50 systems with stick-built and unitised installation options, structural silicone glazing, and integrated opening vents.

Curtain Walling · Lowestoft

Working in Lowestoft

Lowestoft's coastal location, Victorian fishing-port heritage, and modern offshore-energy commercial premises drive coastal-spec glazing demand across NR32-NR33. Salt-resistant specifications and industrial-heritage commercial work form the bulk of our Lowestoft workload.

For commercial glazing in Lowestoft, our typical projects range from independent high-street retailers through to multi-site rollouts across East for national chains. We deliver full-glazed shopfront systems, automatic entrance doors, secure roller shutters, and curtain-walling for office and mixed-use developments. Most commonly we're working across NR32 and NR33 postcodes. Out-of-hours installation for retail tenants is standard — most shopfront installs are completed overnight to avoid trading disruption to Lowestoft businesses.

Our process

How we deliver in Lowestoft

01

Design consultation

We work with your architect or structural engineer to specify mullion/transom sizing, glazing build-up, opening vents and finishes.

02

Structural calculations

Wind load, dead load and thermal calculations carried out by certified engineers — all documentation supplied for building control.

03

Off-site fabrication

For larger projects we fabricate unitised panels at our facility for crane installation — significantly faster on-site and less weather-dependent.

FAQs

Common questions

Stick-built is assembled on-site mullion-by-mullion (slower but flexible). Unitised is pre-fabricated as full storey-height panels and craned into place (faster, weather-independent, but higher unit cost). We supply both — unitised typically used above 4 storeys.
No — curtain walls hang off the building's structural frame. They support their own dead load plus wind load, but no floor loads. The structural frame is sized accordingly by the project engineer.
Thermally-broken curtain walls with double-glazed Low-E units achieve U-values around 1.4-1.6 W/m²K. Triple glazed systems achieve 0.9-1.2 W/m²K — meeting all current Part L requirements.

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