The project entailed installing a secure glass floor in a prison accommodation block that then doubles as a glass ceiling – allowing prison officers to walk across the glazing and maintain a secure watch through the floor
to a recreational area below.
The glazed ceiling floor at De Koepel Prison in Breda comprises 336 separate pieces of fire-resisting glass covering a total area of 560 square metres.
For this project – one of the first applications of its kind in Europe – Vetroflam glass was built-in to a triple-glazed unit using two sheets of clear float glass, each of them 10 mm thick.
