SterlingOSB Zero offers dynamic solution to music venue

The Box, located at FarGo Village in Coventry, has undergone several phases of regeneration to create the perfect performing arts venue with Norbord’s SterlingOSB Zero at its core. The creative hub started life as a carpet warehouse in part of an industrial... View Article

Concord pushes boundaries with Pixer Pod

Concord, Sylvania’s architectural lighting brand, has added new iterations of its award-winning Pixer product further expanding this range of design led luminaires. The new Concord Pixer Single Pod Recessed is a high-performance single light pod which excels in corporate, office... View Article

New Transition Profiles: LVT Transitions

Quantum’s Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) transition profiles are suitable for covering and protecting joins between floorcoverings. They can also be used as transitions between two vinyl floorcoverings or two different types of floorcoverings, generally vinyl to carpet. The bases for... View Article

Designing for flood resilience, resistance and recoverability

Our CIWEM and RIBA-approved Double Point CPD Flood Resilience seminar aims to explore Flood Resilience, Resistance and Recoverability and the use of technologies which have been used historically in below ground structural waterproofing in a variety of different situations from... View Article

Minimising waste in water treatment

“New” regulations governing the use of septic tanks come into force on January 1st 2020. David Stagg, technical product specialist for sustainable water management specialist Graf UK, talks specifiers through their options for compliance. Architects designing properties off the mains... View Article

Choosing the right generators for home use

In recent years there has been an increase in severe weather events — typhoons, Hurricanes, Storms, wildfires, and flooding. Global warming is having an impact, and it is predicted to get worse. It is more likely that you will have... View Article

Brett Wharf plans approved

Proposals to develop 269 apartments for private rent on Gateshead Quayside have won unanimous approval from the borough’s planning committee High Street Residential – part of the High Street Group of Companies and the developer behind Hadrian’s Tower in Newcastle... View Article

Gerflor floorings complete new Axholme North Leisure Centre

The completion of a multi-million pound new leisure centre ‘kitted-out’ with no less than five high performance Gerflor flooring products, has boosted the leisure offering available to a rural community in the north of the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire.... View Article

Gilberts helps Papworth deliver healthy performance

The new Royal Papworth Hospital is set to achieve the highest energy efficiency, sustainability rating yet awarded to a UK hospital, helped in part through Gilberts Blackpool. Designed by HOK, and built by Skanska, the new building on the Cambridge... View Article

Altro ensemble strikes a chic note at new bingo club

Altro Ensemble™ modular luxury vinyl tiles have helped to create a chic, dynamic and modern space with a new approach to bingo within the new Opera Bingo Club in Barrow-in-Furness. Architects and designers, Bignell Shacklady Ewing, developed the new space... View Article