Cutting edge building membrane technology is helping to preserve a chapter of naval history for future generations. The Mary Rose Museum, based at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard – a £35 million purpose built structure to house ...
Work has started on a £1 million scheme at Ivanhoe College in Ashby, Leicestershire which will see improved catering and social provision by August 2013.
Enjoying views over the Adriatic Sea and just a stone’s throw from the medieval town of Rovinj, architects working on Croatia’s new Lone Hotel were intent on specifying the most luxurious, high quality fixtures and ...
Celebrating Leeds and its architectural beauty, office fit-out contractors, Ben Johnson have brought the outside into the old Lewis’s building, now owned by Highcross – Broad Gate is on the Headrow.
Foster & Partners has unveiled designs for a new flagship showroom in New York for ceramics company Porcelanosa.
Stoakes Systems Ltd: One of the world’s largest sporting facilities to use Lumira® aerogel insulation technology is St George’s Park, the FA’s National Football Centre and training ground. It is designed to be the place ...
At the £58 million Caspian Wharf waterside development in Bow, East London, five stunning new multi-storey apartment blocks will benefit from secure and durable weathertightness thanks to more than 8,000 linear metres of Universal Membran ...
Leading one-stop-shop building products manufacturer Steadmans has supplied materials for a new warehouse at Robert Summers Transport in Leven, Fife.
Former 21 for 21 Award-winning firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects have completed two prototype low-cost houses in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam as a potential solution to the country’s need for more residences for low-income families. ...
The new National Centre for Network Rail in Milton Keynes is one of the ‘greenest’ office spaces in the UK being awarded a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating. The building is naturally ventilated and uses recycled rainwater ...
Construction fixings specialist, ANCON, has been honoured at a royal reception at Buckingham Palace in celebration of its achievement in winning the 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation.
North East specialist maintenance experts, Stone Technical Services, are advising organisations to take action now to prevent costly repair bills over the winter months, after a surge in enquiries following the recent spate of severe ...
The exhibition celebrates the remarkable historical, geographical and stylistic range of Bronze as an enduring medium, bringing together works from the earliest times to the present in a thematic arrangement. With works spanning 5,000 years, ...
Gleeds Manhattan operation has recently begun work as program manager to the £107 million JetBlue Terminal 5 International project at John F. Kennedy Airport. The project is the fourth to be undertaken by the firm ...
RHWL Architects: A dramatic, undulating timber canopy has been completed over the Orchard Hotel, which is currently under construction on the University Park campus at The University of Nottingham. The rolling canopy is one of ...
Early in 2009 CRM Architects was invited by Fairgate Investments Limited to consider proposals for the redevelopment of a retail park of deteriorating quality at Narborough Road/ Braunstonegate, Leicester. Working in conjunction with project managers, ...
Associated Architects has worked with Telford & Wrekin Council to win planning permission for Southwater 1, which will form the centrepiece of the £250m Telford Southwater masterplan and marks a major step towards the region’s ...
Media Evolution City – designed and developed by Copenhagen based JUUL | FROST Architects – has won Malmö City’s Award for Planning and Architecture 2012. Malmö is Sweden’s 3rd largest city and is currently being ...
Birmingham-based practice Associated Architects has won planning permission for a new sports and performing arts centre on an historic site in Worcester. The new facility for The King’s School Worcester will provide sports and fitness ...
BBA: The Agrément Certificate process is renowned as a robust and rigorous system of new product evaluation. By definition a new product is unlikely to have an industry recognised British or European standard against which ...
Alsecco’s external insulation and render-only systems were both used for the Clapham One PPP (Public Private Partnership) regeneration project by architects DLA Architecture in conjunction with joint venture partners United House and Cathedral Group plc.
The new wing at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife is now open. The 500 bed extension to the existing hospital was delivered by Balfour Beatty for NHS Fife through a Public Private Partnership.
Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Orbicon, SLA and Centre for Sports and Architecture have made it to the second phase of a competition about Denmark’s largest climate change adaptation project in Kokkedal ...
North West housebuilder Arley Homes has restored a former pub in the heart of a Lancashire village. Significant investment has seen the Dog & Partridge in Charnock Richard updated inside and out. Now the developer ...
‘Stockholm City Station’ will mark the entrance to Stockholm’s inner city center and integrates the station, a hotel and conference center along with apartments. The main idea behind the design was to create a building ...
The economic forecast may not be getting any brighter, but one Lincolnshire firm is bucking the trend of negative growth in the UK.
Ardex UK was “delighted” to work in partnership with specialist tiling contractor, W B Simpson & Sons, to supply the “ideal tile fixing system” for the Aquatics Centre, by architect Zaha Hadid, at the Olympic ...
Sill has just provided the lighting for the new £13.5m Southend Swimming and Diving Centre, which will be the new training base for the British Olympic diving team prior to the London 2012 games.
With an angular, raked ceiling and further constraints imposed by the requirements of disabled access and energy efficiency, Hoare Lea has read a tricky situation well at Canada Water Library. Jill Entwistle reports
DAS, a leading provider of legal expenses protection for Architects, has launched Loss Assist to level the playing field by giving Architects their own loss adjustor to process their side of the claim should a ...
Systems used: Schuco curtain wall, windows and doors; Alucobond; Avon Solar Control brise soleil; Alumet SFS
A £15 million refurbishment project is underway at Toryglen, Glasgow, where contractor Lawtech is completing the renovation of 1,083 properties. As part of this refurbishment, a system was required that would provide an efficient and ...
Leading UK shower manufacturer and designer, Roman Limited, have been delighted by the success of their Project 252 social media campaign. Conceived originally as a year in the life of Roman through photos, and managed ...
International Management and Construction Consultancy, Gleeds, has recently announced that their appointment as Cost Manager to the Marassi scheme at Sidi Abdel Rahman Bay in Egypt has been extended into 2013. Covering a surface area ...
Lichfield based business SE Controls celebrates 30 years in business this summer and still has ambitious plans for the future. After investing over £1,000,000 to acquire new premises at Fradley Park, Lichfield supported by Barclays ...
External façades have to cope with the full force of the weather and climatic conditions, from driving rain and high wind pressures to soiling through dirt and mould growth. The effectiveness of cladding products against ...
Portsmouth City Council has installed DMS (Deaf Message Service), a new fire safety product that informs deaf or hard of hearing people when the fire alarm sounds, in its civic offices. DMS gives deaf and ...
Managing the surface water across the £127million redevelopment of Stratford-upon-Avon’s waterfront – an area that includes the famous Royal Shakespeare Theatre – is an integrated drainage scheme created using ACO Water Management’s versatile ACO MultiDrain™ ...
Iron technology leader Saint-Gobain PAM UK, part of leading international materials company Saint-Gobain, has unveiled its new YouTube channel, a dedicated online platform designed to showcase the capabilities of its cast iron drainage, rainwater and ...
