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Provider of natural comfort and smoke ventilation solutions, WindowMaster, is contributing to the debate on planned revisions to Part L of the Building Regulations, due to take effect from 2013.
WindowMaster has submitted recommendations to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC).
WindowMaster’s Tom Lymn said: “We responded to the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers’ (CIBSE) leadership of the non-domes... [more]
J D Neuhaus delivered to Westcon Lofteteknikk AS (WCL) of Norway, its largest crane system constructed to date. It will be used on an offshore drilling rig.
The semi portal design comprises an A-frame supporting twin overhead horizontal track beams providing a 7.5 metre span.
The crane has an approximate height of 11.5 metres with a total weight of 32 tonnes. It is equipped with JDN hydraulic EH 40-H monorail hoists operating on each of the twin beams, each hoist providing an individual lift... [more]
WindowMaster has joined industry consultants, leading academics in the field of natural ventilation and other solutions providers to make the case for natural ventilation in schools.
Europe’s largest provider of natural comfort and smoke ventilation solutions helped deliver a full day seminar and workshop on natural ventilation in schools organised by the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). The seminar sought to draw lessons from post-occupancy studies and set out stra... [more]
Steel sheets were originally chosen for Hereford market but this was changed to fibre cement because of concerns that reverberation and noise caused by wind, heavy rain and hail would distress the animals. The steel sheets would also have been susceptible to corrosion caused by heat and moisture from the animals’ slightly acidic breath, which condenses on the relatively cooler underside of the roof.
Marley Eternit fibre cement Profile 6 has been used for the roof of the new £7m Hereford Live... [more]
The £255 million Finzels Reach development in Bristol, named after a Victorian sugar importer who had a factory in the area, will comprise 399 apartments, 400,000 sq ft of offices and 87,000 sq ft of shops, cafes, restaurants and other leisure facilities, while also incorporating a number of protected and Listed buildings.
The centre of Bristol is being reinvented with this project - the largest mixed use development to have been built in the city for twenty years - bringing back into product... [more]
Expected to be popular in the refurbishment market or projects where an old-style appearance is required, Wienerberger's Smeed Dean Reclaimed Yellow mixture is a genuine alternative to reclaimed bricks, having the same aesthetic look of a pre used product but with the technical guarantees of its modern counterpart.
The mixture of the weathered yellow brick combined with black and white accents is particularly popular across London and the South East of England where buildings have traditiona... [more]
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