Last week I was at the RIBA lecture on bricks, give by Maxwell Hutchinson, a past RIBA President. Better known as a broadcaster and writer, he provided an amusing delivery on an important topic as he challenged architects to see the potential of bricks as a modern method of construction. In the UK we tend to use brick to provide traditional options for housing and other projects. (more…)
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A safety review of all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria is being carried out after severe flooding caused extensive damage to homes and roads in the county. Six bridges have already collapsed and others have been condemned. Our thoughts are with the many thousands of people facing a massive clear-up operation after the floods swamped homes and business and cut transport links. Though these floods are the result of ‘once in a thousand year deluge’ they have still prompted more discussion on flood prevention. (more…)
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Last week I reported on my visit to Batimat in Paris, the largest building show in Europe. The feedback from readers included many expressing general disappointment with Interbuild this year. A number of exhibitors suggest that, at the very least, it should become, like Batimat, a biennial event if it has any chance of surviving. (more…)
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Last week I was in Paris at Batimat 2009, Europe’s biggest building show where over 400,000 visitors packed the event. Among nearly 3,000 exhibitors were names familiar to the UK market, for example Schuco, Mapei, Autodesk, Technal, Dupont, Dow Corning, Brett Martin, Wienerberger, Fakro and many more. It was a sad reflection on UK exhibitions that none of these companies were at Interbuild. (more…)
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Lyndon White writes: I was interested to read about the Scottish Building Federation’s (SBF’s) contribution to continued calls for a cut in VAT in order to boost the sector. Michael Levack, chief executive of the SBF, said: ‘Encouraging homeowners to spend more money on building works to improve their home would make a huge contribution towards sustaining the jobs of thousands of apprentices and tens of thousands of other construction workers in Scotland. (more…)
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Howard Chapman is a freelance writer who has worked for a number of years in design and marketing, particularly within the construction industry. As a publisher he has launched magazines in the manufacturing and exporting sectors of industry. His focus now is in the developing e-magazine sector, both in construction and engineering.
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