Authentic Roof by Crowe Building Products is a building material specifically designed to look like, but be an improvement on traditional slate tiles. Authentic Roof is made from TPO, which is a material made by combinin...
People the world over would agree that their most comfortable and treasured item of clothing is an old pair of denim jeans. Now Americans can give that snug and comfortable feeling to their entire home with cotton insula...
Constructing buildings from old tyres is not a new thing. The technique has been developed over the last 30 years in the United States but the first building made from car tyres in Britain is now under construction near ...
From 30th September 2003, all new commercial and public buildings with a gross floor area of 1000 m2 or more must meet the new airtightness standard of 10 m3h-1m-2.
This is covered by Part L2 of the Building Regulatio...
Lincolnshire architect, Jerry Harrall, is conducting an experiment to prove earth sheltered buildings can provide a viable and sustainable alternative to existing building construction without the need for additional hea...
Property analyst, Hometrack, has reported in it’s May market survey that housing prices have remained stagnant in one quarter of the northern counties with the others slowing sharply. The South continues to fall bu...
The Colchester skyline is dominated by a much loved, but now empty Victorian water tower nicknamed, Jumbo. Controversial work to transform Jumbo into a luxury penthouse building is expected to commence before the years e...
It’s not due to open until next year but already 90 floors of the 101 floor “Taipei 101” skyscraper are built.
When complete it will add 200,000 sqm of office space to the Taiwanese capital and the g...
The greenleaf housing awards are organised by the New Homes Marketing Board in partnership with the Daily Mail and the main sponsor, Hanson.
The prestigious Hanson Award – for the finest greenleaf example of the...
A loan by the European Union of £400 million will help complete the connection of high speed track between London, Brussels and Paris - striking another 15 minutes of time from the trip to both cities.
An agreement be...
A new research programme of aims to develop innovative construction products using waste from papermills. Work will concentrate on three principal groups of product: renders, blocks and clays; wood based joinery and indu...
Initial concerns over the tightening of Part L of the building regulations (Heat loss through buildings) have been alleviated by the recent launch of what is possibly the world’s first Part L compliant steel window...
On April 17, Bechtel was awarded the contract by USAID for the emergency repair and rehabilitation of the Iraqi infrastructure. Initial funding is for $34.6 million, but could extend to $680 million over 18 months.
Th...
World leader in building materials, Lafarge have announced the formation of a joint venture with Cementos Mohlins to build a cement plant in Chhatak, in Bangladesh.
Lafarge and Cementos Mohlins will own 60% of the joi...
Despite having posted its second straight year of losses, Westbury has decided to persist with its prefabricated homes business.
The business called Space4 registered an operating loss of £3.5 million in the fin...
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