All Archive Titles articles – Page 552
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5 questions
Richard Donnell, head of residential research at Savills, gives the lowdown on the housing market
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URS starts work as QS on £400m lab projects
URS, the engineering and environmental consultant, is the QS on a £400m, 15-year project to provide new and upgraded laboratory and office facilities for the Defence Science and Technological Laboratory.
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Archive Titles2012 here we come…
The London 2012 Olympics is set to produce some fantastic winners, and they won’t all be sweating it out in the sports arena.
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Not yer typical english village
Empty shops, to-let signs, hushed streets … but a great mix of people. So, asks Elaine Knutt, has the experiment of St Mary’s Village worked?
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Archive TitlesGoing for gold
Seventeen days. A 500-acre site. £8.3bn worth of construction. The 2012 Olympics will make over a corner of east London with sports arenas, an athletes’ village and all the other buildings needed to host a major international sporting event. In the process, speculators from Hackney homeowners to large-scale landowners stand ...
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Windowlinks Vector
Windowlink’s Vector design-to-sell conservatory package has been adapted for home extensions.
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Plus points from Quinns
Plastics Plus was pleased to welcome Quinn Plastics to its new branch premises in Nottingham recently. As the largest distributor of Quinn Plastics’ products, Plastics Plus is now able to offer an even greater range and stockholding from its improved location in Bulwell, Nottingham, together with a cut to size ...
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Sculptured performance
Profile 22 says that its FS70 sculptured profile system successfully combines the advantages of PVC-U windows with the aesthetics of traditional timber products. FS70 is available in white and a choice of two woodgrain finishes, or with woodgrain on the external face with white internally. The new profile also has ...
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New suite from Sierra
Sierra Windows has introduced Classical (pictured), a fully sculptured 70 mm suite, which they say looks as good as traditional timber and with all the benefits of PVC-U.
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New Schco software
Training courses designed to bring Schüco fabricators up to speed with the company’s new Schücal+ estimating software have proved very popular. To date, there are 135 registered users of the software, which is increasing week on week.
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Network Veka round-up
Veka have been celebrating the success of their customers and members recently. In fact, they have even welcomed some old members back into the fold after they had previously left the network.
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Plastics Plus MD, Stuart White
The Veka Big Rig has been hitting the streets again, this time in Romford Market.
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Macrolon sets the stage
Makrolon sheets from Bayer Sheet have been used as the stage set of the Wagner opera Tristan and Isolde in Basel, Switzerland. The polycarbonate was selected as the main material for the impressive stage set due to its properties.
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Rehau for Kingsoak
Kingsoak Thames Valley, a leading specialist house builder, has specified Rehau PVC-U windows for installation in one of its most recent developments.
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New Technology is key for Kenrick
Window hardware manufacturer Kenrick has taken a determined step into the future by investing in new Cosmos software technology, consigning many of the initial cumbersome and time-consuming prototypes to the past.The technology, which is fully integrated within Kenrick’s existing CAD system, enables the firm to create ‘virtual’ rather than physical ...
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HW Plastics sold to Latium
Heywood Williams Group PLC announces that it has agreed to sell its Plastic Systems Division (HW Plastics) to Latium Plastics Holdings Limited for a cash consideration of £3 million. In addition, Latium will assume certain product rectification liabilities and obligations as part of the purchase of HW Plastics. As ...
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Single handed investment
Roofline stockist and door panel manufacturer GAP, now has a total of seven Combilifts, having recently invested in the latest bit of kit for the Nottingham warehouse.
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Tomorrows growth markets today
German and Belgian systems companies have always looked beyond their borders for growth. Increasingly, other European systems companies are doing the same.
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Same meat - less gravy
Stockport-based fabricator Alexander Windows has come up with a solution for would-be trade customers who want the quality of the Kömmerling window system, but can’t compete in their market place on the price.
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Legend goes worldwide
The PFL Finesse Legend 70 window system, which was among the UK’s first pre-gasketed window systems, has now reached sales of more than 54 million metres – a weight of over 32,000 metric tonnes, and more than enough to circle the equator in PVC-U.