Brooke House: Creating Secure Access for a Women's Residential Complex

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Brooke House: Creating Secure Access for a Women’s Residential Complex

Metador manufactured and supplied heavy-duty glazed and louvred steel doorsets for a single-sex residential redevelopment in London W3.

Project Overview

The Brooke House redevelopment for L&Q and Women’s Pioneer Housing is a new 15-storey complex of 102 safe, modern and affordable apartments exclusively for single women, located in Acton, West London.

Delivered by HG Construction, the redevelopment will provide accommodation for essential workers in the local community, including teachers, NHS workers, and transport staff, helping key workers access homes in the local borough. It will also help residents facing inequality and economic disadvantage.

Women’s Pioneer Housing strongly believes that “providing good-quality, affordable homes for women is critically important.”

The Challenge

Reliable, secure access is a paramount consideration for residents in a busy space with over a hundred individual apartments.

The complex needed secure access to an on-site cycle store and bin store, as well as internal access to the roof and plant room, and to a private residents’ terrace on the 11^th floor.

The brief required single- and double-leaf steel hinged doorsets providing certified security performance, DDA-compliant thresholds, reliable multi-point locking configurations, high-security louvres and motorised locking with specific access control for different building users.

Metador’s Solution

Metador created a tailored doorset package for the client, including doors from the Xtreme range, plus additional doors from the Safeguard range.

Glazed Steel Entrance Door

The unique main entrance Xtreme 2 door features a large vision panel made from 34mm glass, set within a heavy-duty galvanised steel door leaf and frame. It also includes glazed side and over panels and is certified to the LPS 1175 B3 (SR2) security standard.

This visibility lets visitors see the entrance foyer mural, celebrating women from the past, present and future. At the forefront of the colourful artwork is Emma Brooke, after whom the building is named.

Louvred Steel Perimeter Doors

Additionally, Metador’s heavy-duty steel louvred doorsets met the building’s ventilation and security requirements for the cycle and refuse stores.

Metador supplied Women’s Pioneer Housing, who manage the properties, with reliable security protection across many critical public and non-public areas of the development, which opened in March 2026.

Metador Xtreme 2 glazed single-leaf steel hinged doorset with glazed side and over panels on entrance of Brooke House