Glass manifestations are stickers designed to highlight glazed areas like glass partitions patio and large glass doors glass corridors in public and commercial buildings to prevent accidental collision.
Manifestation glass doors.
If you have full height glass in any windows doors or partitions it must be marked with glass manifestation to make sure that it can be seen.
Manifestations are usually two rows of 50mm or 75mm white or frosted dots on the glass at heights of 1500mm and 800mm from the floor.
Glass manifestation is a fast cost effective route to compliance with glass manifestation regulations which can be installed with minimum disruption to a building s occupants.
It is used to clearly mark what would otherwise be invisible glass walls and prevent injuries caused by walking into the glass.
As long as the sizes and height positions of the manifestations are inline with these guidelines any shapes including company logos will satisfy this health and safety requirement.
They can be in the form of circles squares stripes or even company logos.
Manifestation the technical name for window film and graphics is a legal requirement covered by the building regulations document k.
Part m states that glass entrance doors and glass screens will satisfy requirement m1 or m2 if.
As such there are specifically defined critical locations that do require safety markings.
It can also help enhance privacy and can be decorative.
For more information on guidelines please visit our glass manifestation section.
The building regulations 2000.
Glass manifestations don t necessarily have to be adhered to every window door and pane of glass in a building.
All designs comply with building regulations are prepared on site in our graphics studio and come pre spaced where applicable for ease of installation.
Doors to individual hotel or motel units shall operate similarly except that when the bolt and unlatching operation is key operated from corridor or exterior side of the unit door large bow keys 2 inch full bow or 1 1 4 inch half bow shall be provided in lieu of lever type hardware on the corridor side.
Read more about document k here gov uk website.
Glass manifestation is designed to help make glass obvious which can prevent injury if somebody was to walk into the glass.
Frosted manifestation is a cost effective and easy ways to ensure compliance with the building regulations.
Glass manifestation is the ideal solution.
Manifestations are there simply to ensure people don t walk into the glazing or worse through it.