Bespoke Glass Made Around Your Project
Bespoke Glass gives architects, homeowners, builders and designers the freedom to develop glazing around the building rather than altering the building around an off-the-shelf product. From unusual dimensions and shapes to specialist structural details, every project can be reviewed individually and developed around its intended use.
There is no universal glass build-up for Bespoke Glass. Thickness, lamination, toughening, edge treatment, coatings, fixings and supporting details all depend on where the glass is being used and what it is required to do. Send us the drawings, dimensions or concept first so the correct specification can be reviewed.
Benefits
Bespoke Glass allows glazing to respond to unusual architecture, specialist performance requirements and details that cannot be achieved with standard stock products.
Instead of adapting the project to a standard size, glass can be manufactured around the final dimensions of the opening. This is particularly useful for renovations, one-off architectural details and properties where existing construction creates unusual dimensions.
Not every architectural opening is rectangular. Depending on the application and manufacturing requirements, bespoke glazing can accommodate angled, shaped and other project-specific geometries.
The required glass can be selected around more than appearance. Depending on the application, the specification can consider thermal performance, safety, privacy, solar gain, acoustics and other project requirements.
Bespoke glazing can form part of roof structures, walls, floors, balustrades, screens, links, internal features and specialist structural glass assemblies.
Custom edge details, fixing arrangements and dimensions allow the glass to coordinate more closely with surrounding steelwork, aluminium, timber, masonry and other finishes.
Where multiple specialist requirements meet in one installation, a project-specific approach can bring the glass specification, supporting details and installation method together from the beginning.
Specification
Every Bespoke Glass project starts with the intended application. Provide the dimensions, drawings and required performance and we can review the appropriate glass type, build-up, finish and support details.
Tell us what you are trying to create. Send your measurements, photographs, sketches or architectural drawings and we can review the project before advising on the next stage.
Supply options
For appropriate projects, SM Glass Tech can coordinate the bespoke glass with installation, taking account of access, handling, supporting construction and the approved design. Larger or more complex panels may require specialist lifting and installation planning.
Supply-only enquiries are also welcome where a contractor or specialist project team will manage installation. Final dimensions, specification and responsibility for the supporting construction should be confirmed before production begins.
Gallery
A selection of bespoke and architectural glass installations showing different applications, dimensions and project details.
How it works
Complex glazing becomes easier to manage when the design, specification and fabrication are agreed before production begins.
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and send any measurements, photographs, sketches or architectural drawings available. We can review the concept, discuss possible glazing options and prepare an initial quotation or consultation.
Once the project moves forward, the final dimensions, glass build-up, finishes, fixing arrangement and relevant interfaces are developed. Where required, a technical drawing can be prepared for approval before production.
Once the project specification has been accepted and the required deposit has been paid to begin manufacturing, the bespoke glass is prepared to the agreed details.
Where installation is included, the glass is handled and fitted according to the agreed project requirements, with particular attention to alignment, interfaces and finishing details.
FAQs
Send us your sizes for a free, no-obligation written quotation.
Or call 020 8740 0040We offer full supply and installation across Greater London, the M25 area, the Home Counties and nationwide across mainland UK, subject to the size and requirements of the project. We also offer supply and delivery only nationwide for customers who have their own installation teams. For larger or specialist projects, we are happy to travel throughout the UK.
