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Now available is Rinnai’s ErP A-rated Infinity 1600 range of continuous flow condensing gas fired water heaters, designed to deliver the most energy efficient and cost competitive hot water heating units to any UK site or application. Rinnai manufactures over 2 million hot water heating units each year and so can offer advantageous cost savings […]
A new study published in the journal ‘Nature Communications Chemistry’ has discovered that the structure of ultra-white beetle’s scales could be used in the making of bright-white sustainable paint using recycled plastic waste. White Beetles might be tiny in their size but their structure could hold the key to making bright-white sustainable paint White Beetles […]
The worlds first amazing Sky Pool is due to arrive in London in Summer 2020. Over the past year teams of architects, engineers and consultants have been busy testing and developing the pool structure in its factory in Colorado. The innovative pool is pushing boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and will be […]
“It is time for BEIS to either get its house in order or stop publishing these meaningless statistics which clearly do not capture the full picture of UK PV deployment.
STA Chief Executive Chris Hewett
On a regular day, New York City demands around 10,000MW every second; during a heatwave, that figure can exceed 13,000MW. “Do the math, whatever that gap is, is the AC,” explains Michael Clendenin, a spokesman for Con Edison, the company that supplies more than 10 million people in the New York area with electricity. The […]
Due to the shortage of affordable homes, the government has stated that we need to build around 250,000 additional houses each year to meet increasing demand. However, with the latest data suggesting that there are over 200,000 homes which have been empty for over six months in Britain, do we really need such a bold […]
We read this article on Dezeen, it seems to have split the environmentalists in terms of for and against, whilst the general tone of the article seems to focus on negative aspects, some of their reader responses were more positive. We wondered what Buildingspecifier readers viewpoint was on the subject. Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup […]
Rinnai, best known in the UK for its comprehensive range of hot water and heating home units, is globally celebrating its first 100 years of manufacture in serving its customers with a three-year period of planned anniversary related events to connect to the start of the company’s next centenary. The Rinnai Corporation was founded in […]
Kingspan Kooltherm products have been installed in the new operating theatres at Wrexham Maelor Hospital to provide a versatile, lightweight HVAC solution. Wrexham Maelor is one of the busiest hospitals in North Wales, with a catchment area of over half a million people. £3 million was invested into the site to create a state-of-the-art modular […]
Existing river barrier databases considerably underestimate the number of barriers – including dams – that could be causing issues in areas of the UK, expert Sergio Vallesi from Durham University Business School warns in the wake of events like Whaley Bridge, where a nearby dam at risk of collapse led to mass evacuation. Vallesi is […]
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