CMS Window Systems has won a £30 million contract to redevelop the Aberdeen Art Gallery.

CMS will work alongside main contractors McLaughlin & Harvey, providing curtain walling as part of the two-year project designed by Hoskins Architects. It will create new educational facilities, upgrade performance and reflection spaces and provide 21 new galleries which was previously unused space.

A significant part of the project will be to alter the buildings envelope and create a new rooftop extension by removal of the existing pitched roofs and skylights, together with a new build extension to the rear.


CMS will provide the solutions for this part of the project by fabricating and installing nearly 150 sq m of curtain walling using Metal Technology's System 17 SP (Silicon Pointed). The structural glazing system's classic visual appearance provides a continuous and expansive external glass face to the façade in order to meet the contemporary design of the new building elements.

The curtain walling features 32mm insulating glass units (IGUs) which incorporate a 6mm SECURIT glass outer skin, a 6mm PLANITHERM glass inner pane and a 20mm cavity with warm edge spacer bar, silicon sealed with toggle glazing insert. The façade on the west elevation offers additional solar control with the inner pane on these IGUs being 6mm COOL‐LITE SKN 174 to manage solar gain in peak sunshine. The façade also features spandrel glazing created with a 6mm EMALIT ceramic painted inner skin insulated with 75mm foil faced rigid PIR.

CMS is scheduled to begin installing the windows, doors and curtain walling in September 2016.

(MH/CD)