15 April 2014

Zinc spares Stonehenge blushes + is R&D the key to profitable building?

Zinc spares Stonehenge blushes + is R&D the key to profitable building? New Visitor Centre at Stonehenge Last week I visited Stonehenge, once voted Britain’s most embarrassing tourist attraction. This iconic pre-historic archaeological site used to be surrounded by car traffic and one million mostly overseas visitors were serviced with a couple of old portacabins[…]

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11 April 2014

How the future of construction is built on innovation through R&D and collaboration

Didier Roux, Vice-President in charge of Research and Innovation for Saint-Gobain, speaking at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre in London during the week of Ecobuild 2014.       “As one of the world’s top 100 innovators, Saint-Gobain tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time through our R&D programme”. In his presentation to a[…]

  • 11 April 2014

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10 April 2014

Part L Documents require new properties to meet energy standards

For new homes, Part L 2013 represents a 6% aggregate uplift in CO2 targets compared to the 2010 requirements, whilst for new non-domestic buildings, the regulations provide a 9% aggregate uplift. Part L regulations only apply to new builds and are part of a government scheme to achieve zero carbon homes in the next two[…]

  • 10 April 2014

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09 April 2014

Optimism across the industry as growth hits highest level in seven years

Our Video of the Week comes from Alpha Heating Innovation and provides a demonstration on how its new ARES Tec 900kW commercial boiler was used at a community college for a rapid warm up time. News of the week includes how construction workers are being hit hardest by real hourly wage cuts of 13.4% between[…]

  • 09 April 2014

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