A COMPANY providing glazing for some of Yorkshire’s most prestigious buildings has scaled new heights.

Architectural aluminium specialist Technal was chosen for the new visitor centre on the summit of Snowdon.

The centre is more than 1,000 metres above sea level and subject to extreme weather.

The new £8.3m centre for the Snowdonia National Park Authority provides a café, visitors’ facilities and railway terminus. It replaces a 1930s building and is designed to blend into its spectacular setting, and to minimise any environmental impact.

Wakefield-based Technal provided large picture windows to create a "wall of windows" and maximise the magnificent views from the summit. The windows were angled to reduce glare in the valley below and to provide some shading from the sun.