Healthcare glazing
Healthcare and clinical glazing
Windows, doors and glazed screens for dental practices, clinics and healthcare buildings, fitted around a treatment list that does not stop.
Scope of works
A clinic cannot close for a fortnight and neither can its list.
Healthcare buildings are the strictest kind of occupied site. A treatment room out of use is a list that slips, infection control decides where dust may travel, and the rooms you most want to reglaze are the ones that can least afford to close. The specification is rarely the hard part.
We survey and install replacement windows, doorsets, glazed screens and sealed units in live clinical settings, agreeing the room-by-room sequence before we start. Our most recent work of this type was the entrance glazing at Roka Dental in Woburn Sands.
Specification
Healthcare and clinical glazing, to your specification.
- Safety glass
- Toughened or laminated to the opening, with laminated available as an upgrade throughout.
- Privacy
- Obscure glass across the full pattern range, specified per room.
- Restrictors
- Fitted to the limit your own risk assessment sets, consistent across the building.
- Vetting
- DBS-checked operatives, and site induction where the practice requires it.
- Fire rating
- Fire-rated glazing supplied to the rating the specification calls for.
- Acoustic
- Acoustic glass specified to the level consultation-room privacy requires.
Every figure published here is one we can stand behind. Ask us for anything the table does not cover and we will send it to you in writing.
Scope
What we take on in a clinical building.
Treatment and consulting rooms
One room opened, glazed, sealed and cleaned within the day so the room is back on the list tomorrow.
Entrances and reception screens
The arrival elevation, where accessibility, door width and the approach all get looked at together.
Safe and private openings
Restrictors to your assessment, obscure glass where a room is overlooked, and safety glass where the opening needs it.
Phased around the list
Sequencing agreed against clinic hours and room availability rather than against our own programme.
Specification
Safety, privacy and noise are decided per room, not per building.
A waiting room, a consulting room and a treatment room want three different answers from the same window. We go through them opening by opening before anything is made: toughened or laminated, clear or obscure, how far it opens and whether anyone can hear through it.
- Safety glass per opening
- Obscure glass where overlooked
- Restrictors to your assessment
Working in a live clinic
Where the dust goes matters more than where the skip goes.
Infection control decides the route, the screening and the sequence, so we agree them with your practice manager before day one rather than on it. Rooms are handed back clean and usable at the end of each day, which is slower and is the only way a clinic can absorb the work.
- Route and screening agreed first
- Same-day handback per room
- Sequenced against clinic hours
Project proof
Recent healthcare and clinical glazing projects.
Aluminium windows, Herts and Essex Community Hospital
Colour-matched aluminium windows and doors for the Kitwood Unit, fitted in a working hospital without interrupting it.
Entrance doors, Roka Dental, Woburn Sands
Aluminium and uPVC doors for a new dental practice, specified around the brand rather than the catalogue.
Common settings
Where this work usually happens.
Survey, access and the existing building decide the final route. These are the settings this work usually goes into.
Related commercial services
Work that usually comes with healthcare and clinical glazing.
Common questions
Healthcare and clinical glazing, asked and answered.
Can you work in a live clinical setting?
Yes. One room is opened, glazed, sealed and cleaned within the day so the room is back on the list tomorrow, with the room-by-room sequence agreed against clinic hours before we start.
Are your operatives DBS checked?
Yes. DBS-checked operatives, and site induction where the practice requires it.
How is privacy handled in a consulting room?
Obscure glass across the full pattern range, specified per room, with acoustic glass specified to the level consultation-room privacy requires.
Have you worked in a healthcare building?
Yes. Our most recent work of this type was the entrance glazing at Roka Dental in Woburn Sands.
What we can put on a pre-qualification questionnaire.
- Constructionline Gold Pre-qualified for public and private sector tendering.
- SSIP accredited Health and safety assessed under the Safety Schemes in Procurement umbrella.
- DBS-checked operatives For schools, care settings and any site where the check is a condition of access.
Commercial enquiry
Send us the healthcare and clinical glazing brief.
Drawings, a window schedule, elevations or site photographs are all useful, and none of them is required. A postcode and a description of the building is enough to get a sensible answer back.
- Phone lines are open 24/7.
- The office team picks up drawings and schedules during working hours.
- commercial@fensterglazing.com