Krol Corlett Appoints New Head of Construction

LISTEN HERE 🔊 North West construction contractor, Krol Corlett, has appointed Peter Dunn as the company’s new Head of Construction, as part of a targeted growth strategy. An experienced construction director who joins Krol Corlett from a national construction company,... View Article

ADF are now on LinkedIn!

We are now on LinkedIn, so give us a follow! @Architects’ Datafile (ADF) https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/architects-datafile-adf... View Article

Sustainability, style and substance

Latest research from Waterwise estimates that over 2 billion litres of water is used each day across Britain through showering, the equivalent to almost 800 Olympic size swimming pools. With the Environment Agency predicting an extra 3.6 billion litres of... View Article

InsideOut complete milestone residential development of 22 units in Tulse Hill, London, delivering a dense scheme of mixed housing types while maximising private and communal open space.

InsideOut have unlocked the potential of a complex sloping site in Tulse Hill, south-east London, to deliver a bold contemporary residential development of 22 homes. The efficient high-density scheme challenges topography to create a new raised ‘ground’ which maximises the... View Article

Lessons Learnt for Sustainable School Design

Scotland has ambitious environmental goals.   It is five years since the Paris agreement.  The race to zero emissions is a driver for new types of thinking across all industries, and especially the sector I work in – the built... View Article

It’s time for timber!

Despite being commonly used within a wide range of building projects, timber still fights against the misconception that it’s too flammable for use as a construction material. Whilst timber does burn, the material is able to provide the highest levels... View Article

Barbara Hepworth Building wins major national award

The University of Huddersfield’s Barbara Hepworth Building has been named as the Project of the Year at the prestigious Education Estates awards. The eye-catching home of the School of Art, Design and Architecture won Project of the Year (Colleges and... View Article

Specifying Entrance Matting for Schools & Universities

Schools, colleges, and universities have some of the busiest entrances of any building. They experience frequent intense periods of footfall, have multiple entrances and often tightly managed budgets. This makes entrance matting specification for education one of the most difficult... View Article

Masterplan unveiled for Sunderland’s major riverside regeneration

FaulknerBrowns Architects and Proctor & Matthews Architects, with specialist input from MawsonKerr Architects and landscape architects Camlins, has announced a collaborative masterplan design that will reinvent the heart of Sunderland while drawing on its industrial heritage. Designed for Sunderland City... View Article