Dortech Maintenance were contacted by L&B Developments to assess a glass breakage at one of their properties located at Shire House, in Bradford. The breakage was assessed and was believed to have arisen as a result of a thermal break....
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Our maintenance team have just completed a high level glass replacement project at Regents Point, in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The breakage was thought to of occurred as a result of a Nickel Sulphide impurity in the glass. Glass...
Our Maintenance Engineers are currently engaged in manipulating an existing curtain wall screen, to accept the installation of a large air handling unit. Working at height with a large scissor lift, our team carefully dismantled the de-glazed the existing...
Our commercial glazing maintenance engineers were recently contacted by the Thornbury Centre in Bradford with ongoing issues with an emergency exit door. The door hardware had become defective and the door was non-operational. Our high level glass replacement team...
Working alongside a structural engineer, our team have designed, manufactured and now successfully installed their first steelwork installation to Newgate House in Rotherham. The steelwork has been designed to accommodate a new entrance lobby, which will include two sets...
Dortech Maintenance were contacted by the owner of a block of flats in the centre of Leeds. They had ongoing issues with the functionality of the current entrance door and enquired if it would be possible to automate it....
Our glazing maintenance engineers were called to the school, following the failure of an emergency exit device to a door. An old Schueco Aluminium exit door was enhanced to incorporate up-to-date panic exit hardware. All problems resolved.
Ongoing leaks were reported reported to a ground floor, faceted curtain wall screen. Dortechs Maintenance engineers attended site and conducted investigation works, which included water testing to identify the cause of the leaks. Further intrusive investigations had to take...
This was originally an armour plate, full-glass door. Issues has arisen with overheating as this door led onto an inside kitchen. Dortechs team of high level glazing engineers were then engaged to develop a solution wiht the client, which...
Dortech has recently attained CONTRACTOR PLUS accreditation through Alcumus. Alcumus is a market-leading provider of compliance risk management and certification services. Operating throughout the UK and via a global network, Alcumus works with organisations of all sizes across a...
Dortech Maintenance have just completed works at ‘In Communities’ offices in Shipley, in which they were commissioned to Investigate, diagnose, rectify and test a glazed roof interface into existing curtain wall which had suffered ongoing leaks since its original...
Following reports of a breakage, most likely caused through a nickel sulphide glass impurity, our Maintenance Engineers have been engaged by Liverpool Community College to attend site, measure up and replace the large, heavy broken glass. As you can...
Dortech was originally asked to investigate water ingress issues at One Trinity Gardens in April 2013, and to find bespoke glazing design solutions to solve this issue. Having successfully carried out these works and reported accordingly, Dortech has been...
Our teams have just completed glazing replacement work to the iconic I-Quarter, in Sheffield. Glass had been reported as having broken through nickel suphide impurities. Spontaneous breakage of glass with impurities may occur as a consequence of differing rates...
Our maintenance team have just completed glazing refurbishment works to Crucis Barn in Gloucestershire. The glazing works were commissioned by Building Solutions, a building contractor based in Cheltenham. The concept design incorporated large sheets of floor to ceiling glazing to maximise...
Our maintenance engineers have just completed water-testing to all roof lights at Huddersfield latest sport centre, Kirklees Leisure. The water testing was conducted in accordance with the guidelines set out in Technical Note No. 10 site testing for water tightness...
Dortech Maintenance have just completed bespoke glazing solutions for Main Contractors, Building Solutions. The works were carried out at Crusis Barn, located in Gloucester and comprised of the design, manufacture and installation of curtain walling framework, general glazing and...
Our Maintenance team have just been commissioned to conduct leak investigation works to a high level, 15 year old, Schueco Rooflight in a retail environment. The works at Star City, Birmingham, carried out during normal working hours, required the...
Dortech Maintenance were recently contacted by West Lancashire College following a ‘ram raid’ in which thieves drove a vehicle through the entrance screen in order to steal a cash dispenser. The original glazing contractor had not been able to...
Our glazing maintenance engineers have just carried out a preliminary investigation at Star City Retail development in Birmingham. The site management contacted our team following reports and complaints about rooflight leaks. We are currently in the process of producing...
Dortech Maintenance have just completed a contract for BAM construction for a school project located in Alvechurch, Worcestershire. The school had reported leaks in classrooms and on inspection our glazing replacement team established that there had been a poorly...
Dortech maintenance have recently been commissioned by HB Project to carry out a full scale overhaul of the glazing at Britannia House in Morley. The project entailed; redesigning the existing windows, carrying out a site survey & report, removing...
Main Contractors, BAM Construction contacted Dortechs Maintenance team in respect to issues with ongoing leaks at a project called Brindley Place. The facade and associated coping flashings had been installed by a glazing sub-contractor that had ceased trading. Our...
Dortech was contacted by the NHS in Newcastle in respect to a glass breakage and replacement. Dortechs Maintenance team attended site and determined that the nature of the breakage was as a consequence of Nickle Sulphide inclusion within 16...
Dortech was contacted by Tolent Construction following a failure of a large curtain walling company and the defective work they had carried out at Talbot Road Carpark in Blackpool. On inspection, the existing curtain walling installation was found to...
Dortech was recently commissioned by Morgan Sindall to high level glass replacement services at Teeside University which had broken as a result of a nickel sulphide impurity. Glass may contain nickel sulphide impurities, in the form of small crystals. As...
Dortech was called to the SSU site in Wakefield following a nickel sulphide spontaneous breakage in a curtain wall façade. The breakage had occurred as a result of an impurity in the glass, causing stress and glass fracture. The...
Dortech was recently employed by Willmott Dixon to conduct water testing to a curtain walling that had been installed by others. Our site engineers identified a leak to the head coping of the installation and were subsequently asked to...
Working with York University, Dortechs Maintenance Team have recently completed a high level, access training course. The course covered training on access equipment that was unique to the university and will enable our team to carry out further glazing...
Wates Construction contacted Dortech following the failure of one of our competitors. The respective client had complained about a failure of the interface between the cladding and the render.Dortech was subsequently employed to design, fabricate and install a more...
Dortech was contacted by Bowmer and Kirkland to rectify and complete curtain wall works undertaken by a failed competitor. The works were undertaken at short notice to facilitate an on time handove
To assist ISG with their internal fit-out of the recently completed Munroe Court in Leeds, Dortechs Maintenance team carefully removed and replaced entrance doors and glazing to accommodate the movement of furniture into the building. The works were completed...
Dortech has undertaken a number of glazing maintenance projects at Sheffield Business Park, this was the latest contract to carry out commercial glazing maintenance to windows and doors. During our site survey, we found that many of the window handles...
Dortech Maintenance have just completed a glazing refurbishment and installation project in Hereford for Main Contractors, Stokers.The project manager Mike Long was delighted with the work the team carried out stating: “Dortech Maintenance provided a very professional glazing replacement...
It’s a good job our glazing maintenance team have a head for heights. Working on and towering St Georges Tower in Leicester Dortech Maintenance have been employed by Clegg Construction to reconfigure a significant number of glazed panels and...
Dortech Maintenance have recently completed a full scale revamp of the prestigious One Park Row in the centre of Leeds. The glazing maintenance team were commissioned to carry out the work my Main Contractors J Tomlinson and completed all...
Dortech Maintenance have just completed a glazing refurbishment project at Stockport Academy which incorporated the manipulation of a number of curtain wall screens to increase the amount of natural ventilation going into the building. In order to determine the...
Dortech Maintenance have completed yet another, successful glazing maintenance project involving the reconfiguration of the window and curtain walling installed at the Creative Arts Media Building, Huddersfield University. The client contacted the team with the objective of increasing the...
Our site engineers successfully devised a way of removing the in-situ glazing, curtain wall framing and Dortech Maintenance was recently contacted by Claremont Group to carry out works for Auto Trader in Manchester. Our Engineers were asked to devise a...
Dortech was contacted by the Holiday Inn Express in Bradford who had a number of issues relating to windows which had suffered from serious misuse by some of its customers. In a number of instances, room occupants had attempting...
Following a number of successful, small maintenance and repair contracts carried out for Kings Dock Mill in Liverpool, Dortech Maintenance are delighted to announce we have now been engaged in a cyclical, annual maintenance contract for the entire site...
Dortech Maintenance received a call from a residential project in Menston with complaints of leaking curtain walling and high level glazing. The team promptly attended site, removed curtain wall of cappings and pressure plates and then resealed the glazing system,...
Dortech Maintenance received a call from a Mrs Finch, from an apartment block called Platinum Point in Edinburgh. A number of the buildings occupants had experienced significant issues relating to dysfunctional windows, doors and cold drafts. The building had...
Dortech Maintenance was recently engaged by Shepherd FM to carry out the glazing replacement of damaged structural glazing at Yorks new council offices. Alick Doyle, Shepherd FM’s Facilities Manager was delighted with the work carried out and stated; ‘Thanks to...
Tracy Wilson – Practice Manager: Your two staff were extremely professional and conducted themselves in an exemplary manner. The new basement door is outstanding – everybody is really pleased with it. The main doors are a little better than they were and at...
School entrance door maintenance. Edwina Yates, School Business Manager: “Following a service to two door sets carried out by Dortech over half term, I am pleased to report that the doors are now much improved, thanks to Dortech”.
Dortech was instructed by Bowmer & Kirkland to manage the works undertaken by Besam on the automated doors at the Lido,New Brighton. Upon completion of the works, Will Noden a Senior Surveyor with Bowmer and Kirkland was pleased with the works undertaken...
After the installation of the first Dor Strong Doors at Tuxford School in early 2012, Dortech were employed by Balfour Beatty Workplace to replace another three sets of failing double doors with Dorstrong Doors, fitted with the new Dorma series...
Having recently been contacted by Oakfield School in Middleborough, Dortech Maintenance team have successfully completed a door refurbishment project. Dortech was enlisted to carry out this project our of hours and within a short time frame. The work involved the replacement...