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When it comes to constructing schools, colleges and universities, it’s important to balance aesthetic design with building safety. It’s about creating spaces that are not only safe and functional but also welcoming and inspiring for both staff and students. The new Academy Tien in The Netherlands strikes this balance perfectly, with Pyroguard’s fire safe […]
ALTRO ILLUSTRA proves the ‘pawfect’ choice for Dobbies Garden Centre Stylish new safety floor Altro Illustra™ is delivering nature-inspired aesthetics and safety for two and four-legged customers at Pets Corner at Dobbies Garden Centre in Huddersfield. With wet paws and floors comes the risk of a slip, so when choosing flooring for Pets […]
One of the UK’s biggest chain of gyms and leisure centres has switched to using products from the Rinnai range of commercial air source heat pumps – and electric cylinders – as a major part of hybrid heating and hot water systems at sites up and down the country. The innovative new range of […]
Hopes of lower interest rates fuels optimism in the construction sector UK construction companies have said they’re increasingly hopeful that the downturn which has hit the sector over the past year or so is coming to an end. According to S&P’s construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI), optimism among construction companies reached its highest level in […]
St. Albert city council has decided to spend an extra $3 million on a new fire station that will now be built conventionally, instead of the modular building style council agreed on in late 2022. The new fire station, the city’s fourth, will be built on the northwest corner of the St. Albert Trail and Neil […]
Pictured: Leicester City Football Club legend and former captain, Steve Walsh (left), and Gary Burrows, senior project manager at Unique (right), at the handover of the new French doors installed at Gorse Hill City Farm. Award-winning fabricator of PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling, Unique Window Systems has lent its support to an […]
Timber Development UK (TDUK) – the UK’s trade association for the timber supply chain – in collaboration with Waugh Thistleton Architects – have released a study on policies from across the globe which encourage the use of timber in construction. Timber Policy is a comparative study of policies, across six countries, which can act as […]
Post-consumer recycled aluminium scrap is transformed into new building materials (Credit: Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Twisted aluminium mesh, broken bicycle frames and used car parts languishing in junkyards could gain new life as building structures such as door and window frames thanks to a new recycling technique. Based on a patent-pending technology developed […]
Set to rival The Shard as the city’s joint tallest building Updated designs for London’s newest skyscraper, set to rival The Shard as the city’s joint tallest building now includes more urban greening and improved sustainability. Revised plans for One Undershaft include an elevated podium garden on the 11th floor and what would be London’s […]
New Warehouse roof and Gantry (Image credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum) Work has begun on a grade II-listed building at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, replacing a historic roof the size of two Olympic swimming pools. The New Warehouse, which is more than 140 years old, is the next building to […]
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