New registered office address of SIPRAL UK Ltd.

We are East Londoners!   After 7 years in our office on Devonshire Square at Liverpool Street area, Sipral UK Ltd. has moved to Canary Wharf! We are now closer to our projects and our clients. Thanks to Canary Wharf Group and Canary Wharf Contractors we found an excellent place at 40 Bank Street...

01.08.2024.

News from Timber Square

News from Timber Square:   After windows installation at old part of Print Building and brackets for unitised facade, we have now first structurally glazed units installed. Big thanks to all involved, this is important milestone on this exciting project. Let’s keep up momentum!   Project:...

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23.07.2024.

Sipral UK received the "Contractor of the Month Award for Health and Safety"

On our Timber Square project in London, we are in early phases of installation on site. We progressed with initial windows installation, are advanced with brackets installation and are soon to commence unitised facades installation. We agreed, set and implemented all safety measures, procedures and...

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16.05.2024.

We defended the prestigious certification again!

We are excited that our UK daughter company, Sipral UK Ltd., successfully and without findings completed an audit and once again defended the rigorous and prestigious Achilles Building Confidence certification.   Achilles Building Confidence is a British accreditation system for the...

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12.04.2024.

Announcing organisational changes at Sipral UK Ltd.

After nine years as Managing Director of Sipral UK Ltd. Radim Kostial is leaving this position and will continue to focus on Business Development, sales, tenders and marketing at the group level. An important goal is also the geographical expansion of our activities to other countries. During...

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20.03.2024.

We participated in the 17th National Conference of the Czech Chamber of Facades and cladding

Last week, the 17th national conference of the Czech Chamber of Facades and cladding (ČKLOP) took place, this year under name Facades 2024 – construction, climate, legislation. The topics of presentations and discussions were highlighting the positive economic impact of new construction to the...

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28.02.2024.

The Fragment project goes beyond the boundaries of standard rental residential housing.

The Fragment project goes beyond the boundaries of standard rental residential housing. With its original architecture, Fragment connects art with life and offers its tenants exclusivity and lifestyle. The unconventional facade, created from units (fragments), which are subsequently layered into a...

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23.02.2024.

We supplied facades to the new headquarters of Škoda Auto

Skoda Auto a.s. is the biggest car manufacturer in the Czech Republic. In the long term, it is also the biggest Czech company by turnover, one of the biggest Czech employers and the main Czech exporter. It was an honor for us when we were chosen as the supplier of all facades of the new Skoda Auto...

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25.01.2024.

Another important milestone on our Timber Square project journey!

This week at Schüco in Bielefeld, we passed all performance tests on our PMU so this is a green light to our factory to start! And big congratulations and thanks to all involved teams! For us the Landsec’s Timber Square net zero carbon office project at London’s Southwark’s Lavington Street,...

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13.12.2023.

Progress of units installation on Wood Wharf J1/J3 project

On our Wood Wharf J1/J3 project, this week we installed the unit no. 1,980 out of a total 2,277 on the lower J1 tower with its 34 floors. This was the last one before the hoist infill units, which will be installed only after the hoist dismantle. Great result of the whole team: with the...

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10.10.2023.

Football with the added value of charity.

Our joint team with CTR Site Services Ltd from the Wood Wharf J1/J3 project represented Sipral in a charity football tournament organized by our client Canary Wharf Contractors Ltd. in London. As well as the sporting performance, we were pleased to contribute the financial support, with a...

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30.08.2023.

Our cooperation with LVMH, Gehry Partners, TESS and Vinci Construction continues with the La Maison LVMH – ATP project.

It was a great honour when our client – Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton – again invited us to collaborate on a project adjacent to our previous major project in Paris, @Fondation Louis Vuitton. The project consists of a major redevelopment of a 1960s building to create a new centre focused on...

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11.08.2023.

An important milestone on our London Timber Square project

Visual mock up (VMU) on mock up wall in our factory in Jirny approved! Representatives of the client and architects visited Prague in July. During three intensive days at the head office in Prague Strasnice and at the factory in Jirny, our guests thoroughly checked our production, processes in...

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02.08.2023.

We are pleased to introduce our new project in London!

Timber Square is a visionary development with ambitions to achieve zero carbon emissions essentially a decade ahead of the UK Green Building Council's time target. It's being delivered in one of London's most exciting neighbourhoods, Lavington Street in Bankside, not far from the Tate Modern...

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27.06.2023.

Masaryčka project should get its certificate of completion in a month.

The editors of CzechCrunch have summarised what you can find behind the gates of the Masaryčka project. It will be an exceptional landmark that will offer a wide gastronomic experience and a lot of shops and brands that are new in the Czech Republic and the project should get its certificate of...

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16.06.2022.

With the supply of over 11,000 m² of façade to residential block B of the Cherry Park project, Sipral continues to co-create a new metropolitan centre for North East London. Sipral is following its work on Block A, for which it also supplies façade.

Sipral was awarded this contract by Westfield Europe Ltd. and the investor Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Cherry Park is an extraordinary complex of buildings currently being constructed in Stratford, London. Designed by PRP Architects and Glenn Howells Architects, the buildings will offer up to 1,200...

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17.01.2022.

We participated in the installation of “Ledovec” (Iceberg), a story told over the heads of visitors and tenants of the Bořislavka Centre.

LASVIT, a Czech design glass company, in the Bořislavka Centre assembled its unique and original piece and at the same time its largest glass installation not only in Prague and the Czech Republic, but in the whole of Europe. The Iceberg represents a beautiful marriage of craft, art, modern...

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31.12.2021.

SIPRAL CELEBRATES 30 YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE AND 320 PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ACROSS EUROPE

The Czech company Sipral, a premier supplier of light curtain wallings by another name glazed façades, celebrates this year the 30th anniversary of its foundation. It was established in 1991 by Leopold Bareš together with Ivan Baláš and Jiří Broukal. Leopold Bareš still presides over the...

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04.10.2021.

Leopold Bareš, founder and owner of Sipral, looks back at the company’s history in the Stavba Detail magazine

“Building our factory in Strašnice was something amazing. At that time, we were already in business for about 5 years, but a whole new chapter began with this new building. There were about 70 of us in total; here is where we would sit, there was an office, a design section, the entire...

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27.09.2021.

Doing business in Britain and the impact of Brexit. Radim Koštial, CEO UK & Export of Sipral, was interviewed by BusinessInfo.cz

The vast majority of Sipral’s projects these days is implemented in the UK, where Sipral has established itself as one of the largest suppliers of light curtain wallings. Radim Koštial talks not only about Sipral’s preparations for Brexit and its impact on the UK façade market, but also about...

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20.09.2021.

Each project is unique, each is a challenge…

In the 4/2021 issue of the magazine Materiály pro stavbu (Materials for Construction), you will find Petr Volf´s interview with Leopold Bareš, founder and owner of Sipral. You can read about the company’s beginnings and the projects that marked a turning point for the Sipral brand, propelling...

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13.08.2021.

Fragment, Karlín Prague

The Fragment building and David Černý’s sculptures will combine architecture and art. Sipral will supply an unusual façade to a residential building in Prague’s Karlín district, in the vicinity of Invalidovna. In January 2021, we started working on a new project – the Fragment. The...

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21.07.2021.

Lewisham Gateway

Sipral participates in the second phase of construction of the largest regeneration project in south-east London. In the Lewisham Gateway area, Sipral is the supplier of a façade with diverse shape, dimensions and colours for the project’s tallest 30-storey building. British Axis Architects...

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21.07.2021.

The instalations of capsules at Bořislavka

Each part of the unique construction design of the Bořislavka Centre was challenging in its own way. The crystal-like appearance of the building is, among other things, created by highly reflective glass. The use of 3D design tools enabled curved glass pieces to fit well in the shaped frame. To...

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02.07.2021.

Sipral contributes to the Cherry Park project in Stratford, London by supplying 40,000 m² of façade

Sipral was contracted by Westfield Europe Ltd. and the investor Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. In collaboration with several entities, including the authors of the design, PRP Architects, Sipral is a part of a district redevelopment project aimed at revitalizing the area and improving the living...

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03.06.2021.

Decorated with unusual elements , the Flow Building offers all that and more

The wavy decoration are among the most interesting elements of the façade and emphasise the intention of the Chapman Taylor architectural studio and Flow East company to represent the flow of ideas, energy and creativity in the centre of Prague. The irregular, convoluted façade, unique round...

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08.01.2021.

Amager Bakke – Copenhagen Waste-to-Energy Plant: take a look at our short documentary on turning a crazy dream into reality.

Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy plant designed by the Danish company BIG Architects, is unique both in terms of its architecture and environmental footprint, ranking among the most modern buildings of its kind in Denmark. The managers from Sipral are now looking back at the 6 years of its...

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09.11.2020.

Construction of the year 2020 - cubicles on the Prague embankment

The project for the renovation of the cubicles on Prague’s Embankment received a special Award of the Mayor of the Capital city of Prague in the Stavba roku 2020 competition! Congratulations to the project authors Petr Janda and Brainwork. At this year's 28th year, the prestigious competition...

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30.09.2020.

The architectural studio BIG presented the film Making a Mountain about the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen

A Danish documentary about the “mad futuristic project” of Bjarke Ingels from BIG, his Copenhagen waste-to-energy plant Amager Bakke, becomes a picturesque construction symphony about how one utopian vision of an artificial ecosystem was achieved - writes Danish magazine Ekko on Making a...

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24.01.2020.

We documented the manufacture and installation of art relief on Blanka Tunnel ventilation shaft

24 January 2020 – Throughout November, we headed out to Nad Královskou oboru Street in Prague’s Bubeneč district with our cameraman Ondřej Pekárek to make a video about the production and installation of the decorative relief panels on the Blanka Tunnel ventilation shaft by Studio Federico...

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16.12.2019.

Season's Greetings

May plenty of new opportunities open up for you in the new...

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11.12.2019.

Amager Bakke among TOP 10 New Build projects in SFE Façade 2019 Competition

11 December 2019 – The unitised façade of the Danish waste-to-energy plant Amager Bakke was shortlisted in the New Build category in the SFE Façade of the Year Competition. “We entered a project in the international façade competition for the very first time this year and were delighted to...

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11.11.2019.

Sipral has installed art relief on a Blanka Tunnel ventilation shaft

11 November 2019 – The Blanka tunnel complex opened to the public on 19 September 2015. It includes three monumental concrete cylinders that serve for heat and smoke evacuation during fires. The exhaust on Nad Královskou oborou Street in the Bubeneč district has recently gotten its final...

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09.10.2019.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton is the focus of the latest episode of Surprising Buildings. Take a look at the result

9 October 2019 – “Hello and welcome to a special episode. This time we’re focusing on one of the most complex, most ambitious, most daring, and most expensive buildings built anywhere in the world in recent years.” With these words, Adam Gebrian, a well-known promoter of architecture,...

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12.09.2019.

We installed six glazed cubicles at Rašínovo nábřeží

September 12, 2019 – As part of the project to revitalise the right bank of the Vltava River, the embankment at Rašínovo nábřeží has received a complete makeover. Sipral partook in its transformation by installing pivoting doors with giant glass lenses almost 5.4 metres in diameter and 1.7...

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18.07.2019.

We won a new contract in Prague 6 with sequence number 312

18 July 2019 – Four new buildings shaped like irregular crystals will soon rise on Evropská Street. Sipral will be supplying more than 18,000 m2 of glass façades, 1,000 m2 of glass skylights and almost 100 tons of steel supports and other auxiliary structures for the Bořislavka Centre...

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03.07.2019.

Control tower at the Karlovy Vary airport gets unique glazing from Sipral

3 July 2019 – In early summer, we replaced the glazing of the control tower at the Karlovy Vary airport, substantially improving working conditions for the air traffic controllers. Owing to its composition, the glass is unique even on a European scale. The new glazing will substantially improve...

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06.06.2019.

Leopold Bareš has founded LBSH a.s.

5 June 2019 – Leopold Bareš, a Chairman of the Board and the sole shareholder of SIPRAL a.s., founded LBSH a.s., a holding company, which is 100% owned by him. Leopold Bareš has been running a business on the Czech market and abroad for more than 28 years. His companies and other activities...

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03.05.2019.

A day at the Wardian London construction project

May 3, 2019 – In early May, we took the camera for a tour of the construction site of what is our largest contract in history in terms of volume, in order to map the key moments in the Sipral delivery. During a single day at both Wardian London towers, we managed to film the installation of the...

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28.03.2019.

Long-term support for Olověný Dušan and student Experiences from Sipral

28 March 2019 – This year saw the twenty-sixth edition of the cult Olověný Dušan competition for students in the fields of architecture and design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University. The gala soiree with the announcement of the results was held at the Centre for...

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11.03.2019.

Sipral took part in origin of a french publication on Paris La Défense Arena

March 11, 2019 – In the beginning of 2019 Archibooks, a French publishing house issued Paris La Défense Arena: Christian de Portzamparc a publication whose origin was financially supported by Sipral. In addition to describing the history of the site, the publication includes a number of...

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04.03.2019.

We have published a new information brochure mapping Sipral's activities

320 projects, 160 clients, 97 architects, 8 countries. This is success rate achieved over the past 28 years of Sipral history. If you want to know more about Sipral, our activities and employees, download our brochure called Sipral 2019: facts and figures, that will guide you through company...

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28.02.2019.

Frank Gehry celebrates his 90th birthday

February 28, 2019 – Sipral congratulates architect Frank Gehry on his today’s significant anniversary. Sipral employees join the crowd of people who want to thank this famous architect for his work and his contributions to world architecture throughout his life. We are honoured to be a part of...

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11.02.2019.

Sipral UK has changed its registered office address

February 11, 2019 – We would like to inform you that starting on February 11, 2019, Sipral UK has changed its registered office address. The new registered office address as well as trading address is: SIPRAL UK LIMITED 9A Devonshire Square London, England EC2M 4YN...

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05.02.2019.

Sipral Supported the Fabrication of Commemorative Protective Helmets for Fresh Graduates of The Faculty of Architecture CTU

February 5, 2019 – Nearly seven dozens of students of The Faculty of Architecture CTU defended their theses. On this occasion they received a protective helmet with a special printing. After the exhibition of all the defended theses opening, Ladislav Lábus, Dean of the Faculty, together with...

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30.01.2019.

AFI Vokovice has opened to its tenants

January 30, 2019 – AFI Europe organized a festive gala evening during which AFI Vokovice officially launched its operation. The so-called Opening Ceremony was hosted by Mr. Doron Klein, a general director of AFI Europe for the Czech Republic and Rumania, who took over a green LEED certificate in...

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21.12.2018.

Pour féliciter 2019

21st December 2018 – When it comes to well-being and sucess, let our skyscrapers be the...

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10.12.2018.

Wardian London Penthouse All-Glazed Balustrades Successfully Pass Tests

December 10, 2018 – In conjunction with the VINCI Technology Centre testing facility in Leighton Buzzard (UK), we successfully conducted impact testing of the balcony for the penthouse of the Wardian London residential project. Preparations for the test sequence of the sample balcony, which was...

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03.12.2018.

Leopold Bareš Welcomed Forbes Česko Magazine Readers to His Office

December 5, 2018 – In the Power Room column of the December issue of Forbes Česko magazine, readers had the opportunity to take a look into the office of Sipral owner Leopold Bareš. Find out for yourself what makes his work environment exceptional. © Forbes...

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30.11.2018.

AFI Vokovice Façade Specifics in Konstrukce Magazine

November 30, 2018 – The AFI Vokovice office complex was built on a strategic location on the border of Prague’s Vokovice and Veleslavín districts. From the very beginning, the benefits arising from its location placed increased technical demands on both of the proposed buildings. Read more...

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16.10.2018.

Sipral's British success story in October issue of Forbes Česko magazine

16th October 2018 – “Working in British surroundings is no walk in the park. Any field you work in the key for your success lies in fairness, honesty and professional approach,” says Radim Koštial for the October issue of Forbes Česko. No matter what your area of business is, the key...

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12.10.2018.

Technical Solutions for Glazed Façades and MEC Hall in ERA21 Magazine

October 12, 2018 – ERA21, the Czech professional bimonthly for sustainable architecture and construction, published two articles in its October issue featuring Sipral. Roman Šnajdr, Technical Business Consultant at Sipral, examined glazed façades in detail in his article “Lightweight...

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05.10.2018.

Sipral and Adam Gebrian made a documentary on the Copenhagen waste-to-energy-plant

5th October 2018 – “Amager Bakke is one of the biggest, most spectacular, most expensive, and most important buildings ever built in Denmark,” Adam Gebrian says at the beginning of our 11 minute video documentary on Copenhagen’s new waste-to-energy plant. In August 2018, we flew to...

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10.09.2018.

Sipral Employees Headed to Valtice by Bike

September 10, 2018 – Every autumn, Sipral organizes a weekend on wheels for its employees. In early September 2018, the thirty-member group headed towards Valtice to thoroughly explore the wine region and the wonderful sights around Lednice-Valtice and Mikulov. The flat terrain made pedalling...

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02.05.2018.

Leopold Bareš for Esprit Magazine: "I am only certain about uncertainty."

2 May 2018 – “Many times have I described myself as a person who, instead of having long-term plans, responds to opportunities that arise. I am mostly a technician keen on creating and building things, preferably with my own hands. And these genes have been transferred to our company...” To...

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16.04.2018.

Czech Sipral to supply the MEC Hall in Manchester with unitised façade

16 April 2018 – The Czech company Sipral, through its subsidiary Sipral UK, will deliver a unitised façade for the MEC Hall, University of Manchester. The building will be one of the key features of Balfour Beatty’s £287 million contract for the Manchester Engineering Campus Development...

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05.03.2018.

V Tower, Prague at Pankrác is being completed

5 March 2018 – V Tower, the luxurious residential project is approaching its successful ending. The final interior work, along with gradual façade completion, has been the center of our main focus over the last few weeks. “We have already done surveying for installation of the interior...

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29.01.2018.

Jirny started manufacturing and assembling for Wardian; in London we have installed the first balconies

29 January, 2018 – With the arrival of the new year we can see the smooth running of our largest UK contract so far. After successful series of acoustic tests, during which we tried many glass variants and modular modifications, we started production, assembling and installation. While our...

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22.01.2018.

Nine Elms, London is changing its appearance with contribution of Sipral

January 22, 2018 – "Coal, river mud and slag on trousers .... It is perhaps a factory by the river. There's blood on the elbows and arms ... And it's not human ... Queens Height slaughterhouse! The factory by the river. Great Watson, the area we're looking for is Nine Elms!" says Robert Downey...

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19.01.2018.

Vertical facing elements brighten up the façade of AFI Vokovice

January 19, 2018 – Installation of the unitised façade on building B of AFI Vokovice office centre took place at the beginning of December. Golden facing elements are currently being installed on the same building. “Pre-production of the unitised façade was performed in our logistics...

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02.01.2018.

Martin Binovec on our Track&Trace system in Logistika magazine

January 2, 2018 – Our colleague Martin Binovec unveiled the backstage of our projects, including current Wardian London, which requires thorough planning in terms of transport. What has to be solved when there are no production, assembly and warehouse premises on the construction site? Which tool...

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20.12.2017.

PF 2018

December 20, 2017– On behalf of Sipral we would like to wish you a peaceful holiday surrounded by the ones you care about the most. In 2018, we wish you rock solid health and happiness, in all your projects. Whether at home or at work. ...

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12.10.2017.

U Arena in Paris with a façade made by SIPRAL is opening its gates with a series of The Rolling Stones concerts

October 12, 2017 – The legendary rock band will finish its No Filter tour in U Arena which, on the contrary, will commence its operation officially. SIPRAL clad the multi-purpose stadium with decorative scales and last week it passed very demanding fire safety tests. On September 29th 2017,...

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29.09.2017.

Sipral UK relocates to the City of London

September 29, 2017 – Our British subsidiary, Sipral UK Ltd., changed its permanent address after several months of intensive preparations. The new company seat is situated in a former warehouse of the East India Company in the very center of the City of London. The new offices are less than four...

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15.09.2017.

Amager Bakke, a modern waste-to-energy plant by BIG Architects, awarded at European Steel Design Awards 2017

September 14, 2017 – BIG Architects received the Award of Merit for creative and excellent use of steel design, at Copenhagen's new waste-to-energy plant and ski center. Amager Bakke Resource Centre was awarded at the European Convention for Constructional Steelworks, held for the very first...

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20.06.2017.

Technical Mock-Up for Wardian London Presented

June 20, 2017 – Presentation of the technical façade mock-up for the Wardian London project took place in our production-logistics center in Jirny over four days in late June. We successfully assembled a full-sized functional testing model with balconies and glazed window walls in record time....

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15.06.2017.

French-Czech Chamber of Commerce awarded Sipral in the category Czech Design in France

June 14, 2017 – The French-Czech Chamber of Commerce awarded Sipral in the category Czech design in France. Among other things Sipral was awarded for its share in Louis Vuitton Foundation project designed by Frank Gehry. For this building we created glazed facade structures of various geometric...

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16.03.2017.

Sipral's new project in Prague

16th March 2017 – Sipral is going to take part in construction of AFI Vokovice, a new administration centre and deliver a glazed facade for it. The building will be situated in Prague on the border of Vokovice and Veleslavín, within easy reach of the city centre and the international...

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06.01.2017.

Czech Sipral won the demanding tender for the facade of two tall buildings in London

Press release, January 5th, 2017 The Czech company Sipral won its historically largest job to exceed 2 billion Czech crowns. In 2017–2019 it will realize the construction of an external curtain walling of one of the tallest buildings in Great Britain. Wardian London is a prestigious high-end...

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02.01.2017.

Skiing on waste-to-energy plant at Amager Bakke

Mast climbers played an important role in the Amager Bakke façade work. Amager Bakke is a state-of-the-art waste to energy plant, one of the best in the world in terms of efficiency and environmental impact. The plant is equipped with two furnace lines and a joint turbine and generator system. A...

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09.12.2016.

Sipral celebrates a quarter century of its existence building its brand and reputation across Europe

Sipral, a Czech company, has grown from three people to a two-hundred member team in 25 years and has increased its turnover a thousand times. At present time Sipral is cooperating with renowned architects as Bjarke Ingels, Jean Nouvel or Frank Gehry. Leopold Bareš, a Sipral´s founder can see...

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03.11.2016.

Arena Nanterre - fabrication of shells finished

In the first week of November our logistics centre for fabrication and storage in Jirny despatched last pieces of glazed cladding shells aimed for a new rugby stadium facade in Nanterre, Paris. The building completion, that was postponed nearly by a year compared to the original schedule, is...

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03.11.2016.

Where are the limits of your fantasy?

On Monday 31st October the eighteenth year of Designblock, a show-and-sell event was completed. Visitors had opportunity to compare concepts of top Czech designers with presentations of art schools and assess applicability of design elements in everyday life. On Sunday 30th October the best...

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27.09.2016.

First lighting test

The first lighting test on the east side of Arena92 in Nanterre close to the Paris-La Defense. LED specially developped for this project and placed at the feet of our shells are producing a light tangent to the surface of the shells. The bonding process applied in our factory during the...

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22.08.2016.

Bold and Beautiful

(Published in Access International (official magazine of IPAF) in August 2016)Mast climbing units from Scanclimber are playing a central role in the facade work at a massive recycling project in Denmark. Copenhagen's state-of-the-art waste to energy plant Amager Bakke will equal the best in the...

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02.08.2016.

use of new developed areas

We started operation of our managed stock of produced items on the newly arranged area of 10 000m2 in our logistics centre for fabrication and storage in Jirny, near Prague. System of produced item storage is no more organized per projects but it is based on a logical system of locations. Fixed...

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01.08.2016.

finish of Phase 1 in London

We are in finish of Phase 1 of a residential development Nine Elms in London. The entrance to Block G with a sales suit is open, new owners and tenants are moving to the Block D. ...

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15.07.2016.

effectiveness of machined material rotation

From 1st June the machined material rotation in our logistics and storage centre in Jirny is significantly more effective. The original cycle when material was first moved from a machining centre to a hand-over zone and then taken out to a particular project workplace has been shortened...

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01.06.2016.

V TOWER, Prague

In Pankrác quarter, Prague, there is the highest residential building in the Czech Republic being built. 130 luxury flats will be distributed on 30 floors. The name of the project V-TOWER, Prague corresponds entirely with its shape, two towers opening in a V shape. Use of clear glass intensifies...

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05.05.2016.

completion of the first stage of glazed shell installation

The rugby stadium construction goes on successfully. We have just finished the 1st stage of glazed shell installation on the western facade of Arena 92. In the following weeks we are going to continue on the eastern and southern facades. All installation works shall be finished in spring 2017 in...

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17.03.2016.

600 glazed shells shall cover rugby Arena 92 in Nanterre

On the western facade of Arena 92, boulevard des Bouvets, Nanterre, there are the first of 600 scales installed. The building with an impressive silhouette highlighted with a white roof edge is situated westwards from Grande Arche on La Défense. Works were commenced in February 2014 and shall...

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04.02.2016.

extension of Jirny fabrication and logistics center

Fabrication and logistics centre is located 8 km eastwards from Prague, in close proximity to D11. Its construction started in 2006, when the company decided to enlarge its fabrication premises and move a substantial part of fabrication devices and material stock from hired premises. In the...

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20.01.2016.

Sipral finished a decorative grille for Printemps Haussmann

On 20th January 2016 Printemps reconstructed premises were inaugurated on the Parisian Boulevard Haussmann. A large decorative wall drawn over seven floors separates a commercial part from new escalators forms a part of them. The very first design was inspired by the original aspect of roof...

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16.12.2015.

changes in the management of Sipral

With effect from January 1st, 2016 we made the following changes in the management of Sipral: Dana Petrová, a former R&D director will hold a position of Commercial and Technical director. Her department will offer everything concerning creativity, design, tender preparations and...

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15.12.2015.

Sipral has a new Chief Executive Officer

press release, December 14th, 2015 Radim Koštial was named a new Chief Executive Officer of Sipral on December 1st. He replaces Leopold Bareš after 25 years of Sipral's existence. Mr. Bareš continues to be the only owner and Chairman of the Board. „Sipral is a great hatchery of talents and is...

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04.12.2015.

presentation of “New Engineering Building” in Sheffield (UK)

press release, December 2015 The Czech company Sipral a.s. (joint stock company), a leading supplier of complex solutions for glazed facade systems, has contributed to one of the most prestigious investment projects in Sheffield, namely the construction of the New Engineering Building of the...

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16.09.2015.

check of a mock-up for Arena Nanterre

The biggest roofed multi-functional building in France is being created close to the centre of Paris - Arena Nanterre. It is of variable capacity and can seat up to 40 000 people. We are fabricating its decorative external cladding at Sipral. The first inspection of so called "shells" turned out...

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11.05.2015.

unique façade for ARC incinerator passes rigorous testing

press Release, May 11, 2015, Prague The Czech company Sipral a.s., a leading supplier of complex glazed façade systems, is taking part in one of the most prominent investment projects taking place in Copenhagen: the construction of Amager Bakke, a new waste-to-energy incineration plant designed...

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05.05.2015.

new contract in Paris

May, 2015 Sipral acquired another exclusive contract in Paris. It is a unique and technically rare project for Printemps, a department store on a busy BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN in the center of Paris. SIPRAL is really proud to take part in another significant project in France. The first one was a...

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09.03.2015.

Sipral UK Ltd. was awarded CHAS

In February 2015 SIPRAL UK Ltd. was awarded CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) accreditation, which is perceived as a leader on the market of Health and Safety in the United Kingdom. The accreditation is required by most general contractors in Great...

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26.02.2015.

Claus Hermansen in Sipral

February 2015 Last week Mr. Claus Hermansen, a project director of ARC from BIG architects, a famous architectonic studio visited our company. He came to have a look at a mock-up of a facade for a new waste treatment plant (Amager Bakke) in Copenhagen. Mr. Hermansen examined the mock-up and...

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