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Building Products & Structures

Dulux Decorator Centres, NatWest CricketForce, paint to renovate.

Dulux Decorator Centres help restore three cricket clubs weblink

Dulux Trade

Helped by several cricketing legends, Dulux Decorator Centres teamed up with NatWest CricketForce, to provide the paint and expertise to renovate the aging clubhouses.

Environmental profiling, Renderplas, PVCu render beading manufacturer

Renderplas survey exposes specifiers response to sustainability weblink

Renderplas

Survey by Renderplas reveals changing attitudes to sustainable building products in response to challenges of environmental obligations

Greenwood HumidiSMART™

Greenwood HumidiSMART is the smart choice for humidity sensors weblink

Greenwood Airvac

Greenwood Airvac has developed revolutionary, patented sensor technology to ensure ventilation products are only ever activated when required.

Greenwood Airvac, Omnique, 6 in 1 fan, low voltage, intermittent or continuous.

Greenwood Airvac ventilation at CIH Conference and Exhibition weblink

Greenwood Airvac

Energy efficient ventilation products from Greenwood Airvac, costing less than half a penny to run per day, will be at CIH 2012 to demonstrate how ventilation can help tackle Fuel Poverty.

Multi Spectral Dynamic Imaging (MSX), Flir T640bx high performing thermal imaging camera

Flir automatic thermal imaging camera for building professionals weblink

Flir Systems

Flir T640bx high performing thermal imaging camera enables thermal building inspection and analysis to be conducted with optimum efficiency and speed. 

Major openBIM event - Build London Live 2012

Major openBIM event: Build London Live 2012

Asite Solutions

Build London Live 2012, May 21st - 23rd, 2012, is an openBIM event, attracting design professionals from across the world

Installers training on wall-hung sanitaryware

Installer training on wall-hung sanitaryware at Geberit’s Training Academy weblink

Geberit

Geberit free training to installers demonstrates how straightforward wall-hung systems are to fit plus take away a free frame and cistern to practice on. 

RIBA approved CPD: Putting You in Control

New RIBA approved CPD on lighting controls weblink

Hamilton Litestat

Hamilton Litestat new CPD ’Putting You in Control’ is an interactive seminar on the environments and uses for lighting controls, applications for lighting systems, and multi-room audio distribution.

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Security and Fire Protection

Abloy Cliq Remote

Abloy Cliq remote electro-mechanical security solution at IFSEC weblink

Abloy UK

Visit IFSEC exhibition to see live demonstrations of the award winning Abloy Cliq Remote electro-mechanical security solution.

Aico Product Selector for electrical wholesalers for complete range of market leading Fire and Carbon Monoxide (CO)

Aico Product Selector for electrical wholesalers weblink

Aico

The latest Aico compact A5 Product Selector Book is a quick and easy reference tool to Aico’s complete range of market leading Fire and Carbon Monoxide (CO) protection products.

Environmental profiling, Renderplas, PVCu render beading manufacturer

Renderplas survey exposes specifiers response to sustainability weblink

RenderplasWed, 16 May 2012

Survey by Renderplas reveals changing attitudes to sustainable building products in response to challenges of environmental obligations

ABC D  NBS national BIM survey

Adoption of BIM in UK gathers pace weblink

ABC+DWed, 16 May 2012

ABC+D magazine reviews the latest NBS national BIM survey, showing that in the UK the question is no longer will Building Information Modelling (BIM) be adopted but how quickly.

UK i-Tree Eco pilot project aims to put a value on urban forest resources in Torbay

UK i-Tree Eco pilot project aims to put a value on urban forest resources in Torbay

April 2012

Trees in the urban forest provide multiple benefits, yet without measuring these ecosystem services, no baseline can be established from which to monitor trends or identify where additional resources are required. If you can’t measure your resource, then how can it be managed? 

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RH Partnership Architects, maibec natural softwood timber cladding, low maintenance, long guarantee, affordable housing project

Architects specify maibec timber cladding for Hastoe Housing Association weblink

A Proctor Group

RH Partnership Architects in Cambridge chose maibec® natural softwood timber cladding because it offered low maintenance and long guarantee for the affordable housing project in Newmarket, Suffolk

Wrightstyle, design and installation, secondary glazing assemblies to exterior windows, Weston College

Wrightstyle solution for Weston College window weblink

Wrightstyle

Wrightstyle design and installation of secondary glazing assemblies to exterior windows enabled the building to upgrade but in keeping with its listed status.

Wrightstyle, specialist steel glazing systems, King's Cross redevelopment

Wrightstyle steel glazing systems for station weblink

Wrightstyle

Case study looks at the iconic King’s Cross redevelopment in London, and the role played by Wrightstyle, who supplied specialist steel glazing systems that mitigate against threats caused by fire.

Shopping mall,  moveable glass walls,  barrier load resitance, D R Services

Shopping mall moveable glass walls with record barrier load resitance weblink

D R Services

D R Services fabricated and installed moveable glass walls able to provide a 3 kN/m line load resistance, specified in response to the requirements for a new shopping mall.

Ahmarra timber doorsets, Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, London

Ahmarra timber doorsets for 5-star London hotel weblink

Ahmarra Door Solutions

Ahmarra Door Solutions were selected to supply smoked eucalyptus and horizontal grained walnut veneered doors to the bedrooms, corridors and entrance of the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel.