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The latest news about Building Products & Structures

05 January 2015

Protan protecting Lakeland Climbing Centre roof from the weather

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Lakeland Climbing Centre in Cumbria almost 30m high and thus subject to severe wind and weather loadings. 30 years-old roof needed replacing, but with minimal impact on the Centre Westmorland Flat Roofing’s solution was to use innovative vacuum roofing technology, unique to Protan, to overlay and secure Protan SE1.6mm single ply membrane to the 350m2[…]

  • 05 January 2015

31 December 2014

Demand for traditional Northcot Brick continues to make history

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Northcot Brick factory in Brockley Blockley in Gloucestershire, the home of the Northcot Brick, one of the UK’s last remaining independent brick manufacturers, originally established by the Spencer-Churchill family in 1925. Northcot still takes clay from the same quarry used over the centuries. The outstanding blue lias clay consists of a sequence of limestone and[…]

  • 31 December 2014

22 December 2014

Protan single ply membrane for new roofs of award-winning development

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Advocates Close development in Edinburgh’s Old Town Advocates Close development , Edinburgh Roofs installed: Curtis Moore Main contractor: Interserve Project architect: Morgan Mcdonnell Much of the £30million mixed-use Advocates Close development, in Edinburgh’s Old Town new is now roofed with Protan single ply membrane, because of its flexibility to accommodate roof types whilst delivering the[…]

  • 22 December 2014

22 December 2014

How new RdSAP helps tackle uninsulated party wall cavities

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Tackling heat lost through uninsulated party wall cavities in existing homes Knauf Insulation welcomes new RdSAP (version 9.92) which follows new research headed by Leeds Beckett University (formerly Leeds Metropolitan University), MIMA (the Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers’ Trade Association) and Knauf Insulation. New research findings include: significant amount of heat is lost through uninsulated cavity[…]

  • 22 December 2014

18 December 2014

Skills event for newcomers to painting & decorating industry

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Crown Trade Apprentice Decorator of the Year Competition Crown Paints’ competition has the support and involvement of the Painting & Decorating Association and the Scottish Decorators’ Federation. It is organised in conjunction with SkillBuild, the Construction Industry Training Board backed organisation which sets out to nurture the nation’s top apprentices and trainees working in different[…]

  • 18 December 2014

17 December 2014

Kingspan Insulation for Telford church featured in The Restoration Man

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Restoration of the church on a remote isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides The Church stands on a remote isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides.  originally built by Sir Thomas Telford in 1827-9 Keith and Sheenagh McIntyre bought the listed property when it just was a roofless shell of a building. They turned[…]

  • 17 December 2014

16 December 2014

GGF raises its profile with key visit to the Scottish Parliament

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GGF raises its profile with key visit to the Scottish Parliament The visit in December to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh included: GGF exhibition meetings with over 20 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) input at the Scottish Cross Party Group Meeting on Fuel Poverty in Traditional Buildings exclusive GGF Members lunch and tour[…]

  • 16 December 2014

15 December 2014

Ventilation Review offered for free to combat condensation

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Greenwood inforgraphic on why you need to break the mould and have a Ventilation Review   Greenwood Airvac free Ventilation Review Latest infographic from Greenwood Airvac expains why you need to break the mould & have a ventilation review   Properties with high humidity levels, condensation and mould are linked to poor quality or unsuitable[…]

  • 15 December 2014

15 December 2014

AGB announce hardware distributor partners for Imago door system

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Imago lift&slide super-slim large span timber doors from AGB First hardware distributor partners for the Imago door system Leading Italian hardware company AGB launch the Imago Lift& Slide super-slim timber doors and announce their first hardware distributor partners for the Imago door system: B J Waller; Locks, Doors and Window Fittings; P.C. Henderson Ireland; Profast[…]

  • 15 December 2014

14 December 2014

Skilled engineers at Waterloo support new apprentices to drive growth

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Waterloo Air Products plc Very few British manufacturers can boast continuity when it comes to its workforce and fewer still that employ staff who have served longer than 20 years with one company.   Matt Southgate Waterloo Air Products Plc Rick Edmondson, chairman of Waterloo: “Waterloo Air Products is proud of our employees and we[…]

  • 14 December 2014