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Metal Window and Curtainwall products are high-tech. design items which can be a source of continuing costly maintenance.
WINDOW ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS is a specialist, professional organisation established to offer engineering advice and undertake physical testing to International Accreditation New Zealand (formerly TELARC) standards. It can also provide systems reviews and reporting services to property owners, managers or builders in need of independent, professional advice regarding metal windows, doors, curtainwall, glass and glazing systems or related cladding systems.
Our International Accreditation New Zealand registered window and curtainwall testing laboratory is the most modern and sophisticated in Australasia and can test to New Zealand, Australian, American, Singaporean and British Standards of performance. We are also equipped to carry out field tests in accordance with all AAMA testing standards.
This facility is ideally suited to check and monitor new building projects in order to ensure that products selected are appropriate to the application and satisfactory in use, thus avoiding potentially costly delays to construction programs or major inconvenience to tenants due to the need to undertake remedial works after occupation of the building.
In addition to new product or project testing we also offer our expertise to review and provide technical reports on existing buildings which may have defective exterior cladding requiring appropriate and effective remedial programs. Such review may also extend to include the selection and supervision of suitably qualified tradesmen to carry out the necessary remedial work.
Our clients include commercial builders, property developers, individual owners, Architects, Engineers, corporate tenant groups and companies who may be involved in legal disputes requiring evidential submissions in Courts or Arbitration Chambers or due diligence reporting for selling agents to provide support information for clients in the process of buying or selling an existing building.
We also provide technical engineering and general design support services to fabricators using our window/curtainwall/ façade testing facility which is located at our Woods Glass Ltd site.
Testing can be carried out to the following standards:
Australia/NZ AS/NZ 4284:2008
New Zealand NZS 4211:2008
Australia AS 4420:1999
American ASTM
Singapore SS 2112.1979
UK BS EN 12179:2000
BS EN 12179:2000
WINDOW ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS:
PO Box 100-340 North Shore Mail Centre
Auckland 0745, New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 444 4944
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