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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 and loos. Now one road has been grassed over and ‘world-class’ Visitor Centre, sporting a VM Zinc canopy, spares our blushes. A great reminder too that zinc is one of our most ancient and sustainable building materials.
Didier Roux was at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre recently explaining how Saint-Gobain spend 400m a year on R&D and that 1 in 5 of the products they manufacture didn’t exist five years ago. We have link to a video of him waxing lyrical about how some of the biggest challenges in construction are being met by R&D and collaboration. Is R&D the key to a profitable and sustainable building industry.
The Guardian highlighted growing concerns about safety with a headline that more builders have died on UK sites than soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. We have included details below on a tagging product for forklifts and last week we featured a scaffold visual tagging system – both help reduce on-site accidents. Buildingtalk is keen to include features and products that would support site safety, so do be in touch on this.
And finally, an invitation from Buildingtalk to Grand Designs Live, 3-11 May 2014 at Excel, London: click here to claim your free weekday ticket valid on one day from 6-9 May* quoting BTLK14′. *t&cs apply.
Passivent has supplied a combination of Hybrid Plus2 Aircool ventilators and Hybrid Plus Airstract roof ventilation terminals for a new London primary school.
Posted in Air Conditioning, Articles, Building Industry News, Building Products & Structures, Building Services, Case Studies, Ceilings, Facility Management & Building Services, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning - HVAC, Restoration & Refurbishment, Retrofit & Renovation, Roofs, Sustainability & Energy Efficiency, Ventilation, Walls
Both a building’s users and its developers have a good reason to get excited about the new Troldtekt Plus 25 panels. This specially developed acoustic panel sets a high standard for both sound absorption and building efficiency.
Posted in Acoustics, Noise & Vibration Control, Articles, Building Industry News, Building Products & Structures, Building Services, Building Systems, Ceilings, Facility Management & Building Services, Floors, Innovations & New Products, Insulation, Interior Design & Construction, Interiors, Restoration & Refurbishment, Retrofit & Renovation, Timber Buildings and Timber Products, Walls
Building on the success of last year, InstallerSHOW is returning to the NEC from the 24th to the 26th of June…
Posted in Articles, Building Industry Events, Building Industry News, Building Products & Structures, Building Services, Exhibitions and Conferences, Health & Safety, Retrofit & Renovation, Seminars, Sustainability & Energy Efficiency
ABLOY, part of ASSA ABLOY Group, has redefined its brand, focusing on the value it brings to customers around the world…
Posted in Access Control & Door Entry Systems, Architectural Ironmongery, Articles, Building Industry News, Building Products & Structures, Building Services, Case Studies, Doors, Facility Management & Building Services, Health & Safety, Retrofit & Renovation, Security and Fire Protection