‘Floor Surface’

A Buildingtalk guide

Start with the news release Stannah Lifts and art deco development from Stannah, which we summarised at the time by saying "Stannah complete major lift refurbishment project at Gunnersbury Court, an art deco style 1930s private housing development.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release New BSF school in Tower Hamlets. from Nightingale Associates: "Nightingale Associates complete a GBP2.6 million refurbishment and extension at Ian Mikardo School, an SEN secondary school in Tower Hamlets.".
 
In September 2011, we covered the news from Concrete Centre - take a look at Basement solution to shoe-box homes which says: "Guy Thompson, head of architecture and sustainability at The Concrete Centre, believes the provision of basements would help counter RIBA criticism of 'shameful shoe-box homes'.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Catnic, Catnic timber frame steel lintels in Exeter, as well as Keen cyclist launches pothole repair product from Ronacrete, and Causeway at ICE BIM 2011 from Causeway Technologies.
 

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Technical mortars used to renovate River Medway (September 2011)

Saint-Gobain Weber Five Star repair concrete and high-build properties of weber.cem HB30 mortar enabled renovation an old river sluice facility on the River Medway.

RonaDeck for walkway at Westfield Stratford (September 2011)

Ronacrete case study takes a look at the pedestrianised street that run through the Westfield Stratford City retail and leisure development.

Door closers from DORMA for new Academy (September 2011)

Door closers from DORMA were specified for the new GBP36 million Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid.

Rethink refurbishment at INSITE11 at BRE Watford (September 2011)

INSITE11 is an exhibition of over 50 refurbishment innovations, plus a tour of the BRE Victorian Terrace refurbishment project.

BRE and British Gas partner on SmartHomes (September 2011)

The SmartHomes Project aims to reduce the energy requirements of domestic customers through the implementation of smart technologies and sustainable refurbishment solutions.

Building in fire and smoke protection (September 2011)

Peter Jennings, Technical Director for ACO Building Drainage, looks at how poor planning of drainage systems can contribute directly to the spread of fire in large buildings.

Ultra Floor and Tile for tile contract market (September 2011)

The two brands offer a one-stop shop for easy product purchase for floor tile contracts.

REHAU supply pressure pipe for Carlsberg brewery (September 2011)

More than 900m of its RAUISO Food PE-Xa pressure pipe was used to connect its expanded production facility to a bottling and distribution plant approximately 50m away.

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