JOHN LENNON AIRPORT HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTRE NEAR COMPLETION
A team of glazing specialists from Hull-based EYG is close to completing a £700,000-plus contract at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to help create bedrooms as sound-proofed as a recording studio.
EYG was chosen by SCC Limited, the Stockport-based prefabricated modular concrete specialist, to provide all the glazing for the multi-million pound expansion of the airport, including a new hotel and a futuristic conference centre and where aircraft noise levels where a major factor. The developers are Bovis Lend Lease and Peel Holdings, of Manchester.
EYG’s major accounts manager, Bernard Hastie, said: “EYG specialist commercial glazing team has developed a reputation for pioneering the design, manufacture and installation of new systems that help to deal with such matters as excess noise and environmental issues.
“At John Lennon Airport, the windows of the new high rise hotel have been acoustically designed to cut out aircraft noise by using cutting edge technology and through our association with a team of scientists at Bath University.
“In these competitive times where companies are constantly looking to save money and improve the environment of their buildings, we have to make sure we keep EYG at the forefront of design and technology as it affects the glazing industry. Acoustic glass is certainly one of those areas where major improvements have been made in recent years.
“We also undertook the design and installation of a complex elliptical curtain walling screen which forms the major feature of the development’s frontage.”
EYG are one of the country’s leading independent commercial glazing manufacturers and installers. The Group has a turnover in excess of £20m and employs around 300 people, mostly at the Wiltshire Road, Hull, headquarters.