Advanced Launches New Smart Fire System Management CPD

Advanced has launched a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminar exploring how connected technology, cloud-based monitoring and intelligent data are transforming the management of fire detection systems. The new CPD, ‘The Evolution of Smart Fire System Management’, has been developed... View Article

Innovative Green Roof Solutions From Optigrun

For over 50 years, Optigrun has been at the forefront of roof greening innovation, helping transform urban environments across Europe. Through industry-leading green roof systems, expert technical support, and dedicated customer service, we work with architects and contractors to create... View Article

Designing Bathrooms for a Spa Town’s Legacy

Askern’s last bathhouse may have disappeared in the 1960s, yet the South Yorkshire town still carries the quiet serenity of a historic spa resort, surrounded by lakes, woodland and open water that make it an appealing place for people to... View Article

Built for the busiest six by four metres in retail

How SPECTRSOLUTIONS LTD uses HIMACS, specified through James Latham, to deliver premium retail kiosks inside Westfield, Battersea Power Station and other landmark UK shopping destinations. A shopping kiosk has nowhere to hide. Standing in the middle of the mall, surrounded... View Article

The perfect colour with guaranteed performance

Specifying grout can feel a bit like Hobson’s choice with a limited range of colours available, especially when specifying for environments where performance is critical such as leisure facilities and food-production areas. 50 contemporary colours This doesn’t have to be... View Article

RICS marks 50 years of the Red Book 

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Global Valuation Standard, known as the Red Book. This marks five decades supporting consistent, transparent and trusted valuation across global markets. First published in 1976, the... View Article

The paperwork that makes fire-rated glazing work

New research from the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) and their Fire Door Alliance scheme found that 27% of the professionals who specify, install and maintain fire doors cite uncertainty over the data needed to evidence performance as a barrier to... View Article

Secure learning

C-TEC’s fire and lockdown systems protecting community special school A powerful network of C-TEC’s ZFP CAST fire alarm and lockdown alert systems is protecting a school in Wigan. Situated in a residential area of Ashton-in-Makerfield. Willow Grove Primary is a... View Article