Aqualisa wins RoSPA Gold Award for health and safety achievements

British bathroom specialist receives highest safety recognition from industry body Bathroom product specialist Aqualisa has once again been honoured with the RoSPA Gold Award, an internationally-recognised accolade for demonstrating the highest health and safety standards. Organisations that receive a RoSPA Award are... View Article

Something special – Bespoke casings from Pendock

Decorative architectural casing and enclosure solutions have been Pendock’s area of specialism for more than three decades, combining the key attributes of aesthetics and practicality to effectively conceal structural elements and building services. Since the company was formed in 1987,... View Article

Timeless elegance with Garador’s Georgian doors

Add timeless elegance to your property with Garador’s Georgian style garage doors. These stand out garage doors have been beautifully designed with deep, crisp panel pressings to add exceptional quality and style to the overall look.  The more formal, traditional design will... View Article

Knightsbridge goes full tilt with configurable LED downlights

Knightsbridge has taken the next step in its lighting evolution with the inclusion of SpektroLED® Tilt to the configurable, Knightsbridge SpektroLED® series. SpektroLED® offers so many combinations of wattage, colour temperature and bezel choice that the product provides a genuine 40-in-1 fire-rated downlighting solution, now in... View Article

Nordic Green Copper Aurora

LISTEN HERE ‘The fact that copper is a natural material and, of course, 100% recyclable are for me important factors – and certainly its longevity is often overlooked’ This contemporary cottage, built in a stunning seashore location on the Lyngen... View Article

How is CaberMDF manufactured?

Panel specialist, West Fraser, trading as Norbord, has produced a 90-second video demonstrating the CaberMDF manufacturing process at the company’s Cowie plant in Scotland. The video can be watched on West Fraser’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am_BCnWAqBQ The clip outlines the... View Article

The next generation in sustainable substrate cladding

With sustainability becoming a non-negotiable stipulation in contemporary design briefs, architects up and down the country are constantly hunting for the lowest-carbon material options available. Putting this in wider context, NBS’s recent Sustainability Futures Report found in a poll that... View Article

Roofshield® protection for listed building in Paisley

A prominent town centre historic building in Paisley town centre which had fallen into disrepair is in the process of being restored with the help of Renfrewshire Council’s Townscape Heritage Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (TH.CARS2). The scheme aims to improve... View Article

Capital fit-out

Liverpool’s largest office block- the Capital Building- is undergoing a full interior refurbishment to address the lack of Grade A premises available in the city. Fundamental to the upgrade of the 410,000 sq ft, 11-storey 1970s building is a total... View Article

Green light for game changing £24m activities hub

A pioneering Warwickshire facility, which challenges the traditional notion of a leisure centre, has received planning permission thanks to sport and leisure specialists GT3 Architects. Located in Miners’ Welfare Park, the Bedworth Physical Activities Hub – delivered on behalf of... View Article

CaberFloor P5 for creak-free flooring

CaberFloor P5, from timber panel specialist West Fraser, trading as Norbord, is the UK’s most popular moisture resistant flooring panel of its type. It is a high-performance particleboard being widely specified due to its stability, durability and ease of installation... View Article

State of the art(efact) ventilation blends new and old

When the Natural History Museum decided to replace its famous ‘Dippy’ the diplodocus exhibit with a new star exhibit – a real-life skeleton of a blue whale – design & engineering expertise from Lancashire provided a solution to balance all... View Article