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Exterior paints guide updated to include woodcare colours

Exterior paints guide updated to include woodcare colours weblink

Dulux Trade

Dulux Trade’s Weathershield colour guide has been updated to incorporate the company’s most popular woodcare colours and to demonstrate how they can be complemented by trim and masonry shades. The new guide arranges colours from dark hues to light shades in order for the specifier to select the right colour palette for any project. The Weathershield range of paints is suitable for exterior masonry, metal trim and wood.

New door security solutions pocket handbook

New door security solutions pocket handbook weblink

Abloy UK

Abloy UK has introduced a new security solutions pocket specification handbook which has been based on its popular smartphone app. The iPhone, iPad and Android compatible app helps specifiers select the right door security solution alongside directing users to their nearest Abloy Centre via GPS technology. After receiving significant feedback that a hard copy of the app would be useful, the company has now launched the Compliant Specifications handbook which contains information on ...

Viper SCC ,duct-mounted, centrifugal fan,Elta Fans, high pressure, low volumes, leisure facilities, schools, colleges, retail centres, factories, duct-mounted installations, Viper SCC, Elta Select 2013 Product Guide

New patented centrifugal SCC fan launched by Elta Fans weblink

Elta Fans

The innovative patented Viper SCC duct-mounted, centrifugal fan from Elta Fans produces high pressure even with low volumes and is ideal for installation in sports and leisure facilities, schools, colleges, retail centres, factories and other duct-mounted installations. The Viper SCC is one of a number of new products featured in the new Elta Select 2013 Product Guide, available now.

New semi rigid ducting system launched

New semi rigid ducting system launched weblink

Greenwood Airvac

Greenwood Airvac has launched ComfoTube, a new semi rigid ducting system, as part of its Guaranteed Installed Performance range. ComfoTube has been designed to be quick and easy to install and is supplied on rolls of up to 50m. It can be cut to size, bent around corners and/or joists and doesn’t require the use of sealants. ComfoTube semi rigid ducting ensures a healthy supply of fresh air by using Clinside, a patented smooth internal coating.

Integrity Software, Facilitas SMC, Evolution M, accounting software, integrated construction financial system, monitoring costs, SMC

Facilitas SMC switch to Evolution M construction specific accounting software weblink

Integrity Software Systems

Integrity Software case study looks why building contractors Facilitas SMC switched to construction specific Evolution M accounting software that provided an integrated construction financial system that made monitoring costs and sales across SMC’s four main revenue streams visible in real time.

Stroma, Green Deal,  Environment and Energy Awards, Innovation in Environmental Technology, British Gas advisor, Green Deal,  RSAP+, Stroma Certification, Green Deal,  EPC software package

Stroma software is first used to submit direct to Green Deal Finance Company weblink

Stroma

British Gas advisor uses Stroma Certification’s RSAP+ Green Deal and EPC software package, the first software on the market to connect direct to the Green Deal Finance Company, thus avoiding requirements for separate data entry.

Franke Washrooms Systems, stainless steel WCs,  single-piece P-Trap

Franke Washrooms Systems innovative stainless steel WCs weblink

Franke Sissons

Franke Washrooms Systems has redesigned its stainless steel WCs, incorporating a single-piece P-Trap and an improved shape to the bowl. The range offers cost savings, water savings and specifying advantages for specifiers.

GE Lighting, innovations, Indoor Solutions catalogue

GE Lighting latest innovations in new Indoor Solutions catalogue downloadweblink

GE Consumer & Industrial Lighting

Indoor Solutions catalogue includes key LED and CMH innovations suitable for office, retail, education and healthcare environments.

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Security and Fire Protection

security locking, Abloy UK, RIBA-approved, CPD seminars, architects premises, design standards-compliant specifications,fire door and escape door legislation

RIBA-approved CPD seminars on latest security standards and technology weblink

Abloy UK

Abloy UK offers RIBA-approved security CPD seminars covering electric locking and access control systems. The CPD seminars are based on Abloy’s popular Academy courses and are held at architects’ premises, also providing the latest information design standards-compliant specifications to meet fire door and escape door legislation.

Pauline Smith,  FireAngel, carbon monoxide alarm, deadly gas leaking, Romford Recorder

FireAngel carbon monoxide alarm alert to deadly gas leak weblink

Sprue Safety Products

Nick Rutter, MD of Sprue Safety Products, highlights the dangers of ‘the silent killer’, carbon monoxide (CO), after lives were saved because of vital warnings provided by a FireAngel alarm after a deadly CO leak from Pauline Smith’s neighbours flat in Romford, Essex.

Newton Diathonite natural compound all-in-on insulating plaster videoweblink

John Newton & Company LtdMon, 20 May 2013 | Updated: Tue, 21 May 2013

VIDEO demonstrates how Newton Diathonite, a premixed plaster, fibre-reinforced with cork, clay powders and natural hydraulic lime with top thermal and acoustic properties, provides a hard wearing thermal barrier for both internal and external applications. Diathonite creates an seamless thermal barrier, eliminating the risk of cold bridging within the structure, and can be spray-applied using a plastering pump, or hand applied.

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DeckSafe Solutions, SITA UK, DeckSafe, non-slip surfaces, household recycling, safety standards, DeckSafe,  slippery, hazardous concrete steps

Recycling centre ensures non-slip surfaces with DeckSafe Solutions weblink

DeckSafe Solutions Fri, 17 May 2013

DeckSafe Solutions case study looks why SITA UK specified DeckSafe to create non-slip surfaces that ensured the safety of users at their household recycling centre in Stoke Gifford near Bristol. All public access areas now meet stringent safety standards and DeckSafe has eliminated a number of potentially slippery, uneven and hazardous concrete steps and surfaces. 

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Jaga, Maxi, Low-Surface Temperature, Basic radiators, air-source heat pumps, Merthyr Tydfil, Design for Life,  NHS Trust Framework Agreement, Maxi LST, cool-to-touch, protective casing, curved edges, anti-ligature grilles,  vulnerable patients, cutting ca

Safe and energy efficient Maxi LST and Basic radiators for healthcare development weblink

Jaga Heating

Partnered with air-source heat pumps, Jaga’s Maxi Low-Surface Temperature and Basic radiators were installed at Kier Hardie Health Park in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, a £30m healthcare development, built as part of the ‘Design for Life’ NHS Trust Framework Agreement. Maxi LST features included a cool-to-touch protective casing with curved edges plus anti-ligature grilles to provide safe, energy-efficient heating that also helped cut carbon emissions by up to 10%.

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