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  • News

    Solar electric slate

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Solarcentury is launching a solar electric slate at Ecobuild, this year

  • News

    Closed panel timber frames

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Timber frame manufacturer Cygnum will unveil a closed panel timber frame system that incorporates cellulose insulation, at Ecobuild

  • News

    Energy saving glazing

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Tremco illbruck will show a number of new energy saving products for glazing systems, at Ecobuild

  • News

    Energy efficient building advice

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    At Ecobuild, Saint-Gobain will be demonstrating how its technologies can be used together to create energy efficient buildings

  • News

    Monitor your water trap seals

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Dyteqta will be showcasing a water trap seal monitor at Ecobuild

  • High Court
    News

    Kingspan wins High Court battle against rival Rockwool

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Judge rules Rockwool’s marketing campaign was misleading

  • News

    Absorbent building board

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Gypsum fibre board manufacturer Fermacell’s Greenline building board has natural additives formulated to absorb volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from inside buildings.

  • Products
    News

    Recyclable aluminium rainwater system

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Rainwater systems manufacturer Marley Alutec will be exhibiting its Alutec Evolve range of recyclable aluminium rainwater systems, at this year’s Ecobuild

  • News

    Architects pessimistic as work gets harder to come by

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Future Trends survey shows lack of confidence in the market

  • News

    Kick start for Hackney

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Hawkins Brown Architects has secured planning permission for the Kick Start fifth phase of the Woodberry Down redevelopment project in north London.

  • News

    Megablock

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Buckley Gray Yeoman Architects, working with Heyne Tillett Steel structural engineers, has secured planning permission for an office block in Shoreditch, east London. The 4,780m2 development has an exposed load-bearing diagrid structural frame.

  • News

    Smarter school

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Willmott Dixon has won a £10.3m contract to refurbish and rebuild Birkenhead High School Academy

  • Comment

    Use your common sense

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    I found Alan Harris’ concerns that adjudicators rarely seek advice from specialists on matters of law or programming interesting (11 February, page 25).

  • Comment

    Water works

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    In your article about the new station over the river at Blackfriars (28 January, page 44), you refer to the role of the PLA in making the use of the river a possibility for moving materials to and from the site.

  • Comment

    Let's not be hasty

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Unfortunately the knee-jerk reaction to a crisis described in “Rok and Connaught force repairs in-house” (11 February, page 12), is typical of housing associations, and is driving the provision of an in-house repairs team.

  • News

    Under construction: the apprentice experience

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Building magazine in association with CITB-ConstructionSkills launch the first in a series of three short documentaries exploring the contribution apprenticeship schemes make to construction

  • health
    Comment

    Holed up

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Looking for something?

  • Comment

    Network rail shake-up: light at the end of the tunnel

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Roy McNulty’s interim report on how to get value for money from the railway sector suggests that train operating companies are set to be turned into quasi developers

  • Tony Bingham
    Comment

    Michael Gove: The bad boy in school

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The education secretary got his knuckles rapped for bad-temperedly tearing up the BSF rule book. But it won’t stop him getting his way

  • Specifier
    Features

    Ecobuild: Five top trends

    2011-02-25T00:00:00Z

    In this week’s Ecobuild special, we take a look at five top trends to find out about at the show on 1-3 March. And there are some surprising suggestions to help you get more green