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Keep up to dateDampproof and flashing specialist Cavity Trays has launched the Pyramid Weep.
This allows water arrested in a cavity wall to drain out and has been designed with a triangular profile that is said to offer better strength and durability. The grey, PVCu weep comes in two lengths: 100mm and 240mm.
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Catnic, manufacturer of steel lintels and building products, has provided 96 lintels for the new residential development at Windsor Court, in Filey, North Yorkshire.
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
Considerate Constructors Scheme says workers are reporting concerns over safety of materials used on new builds
Sellar no longer working on scheme with Herzog & De Meuron replaced by Acme
Some unsafe buildings may never be identified, National Audit Office says
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