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Creating multiple meeting rooms with Style

Combining various types of moveable wall within the same building is fast becoming the latest trend for architects aiming to create the ultimate flexible space solution. One recent example is the London offices of Anglo American, a leading global mining ...

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Is your lift ready for the analogue to digital switchover?

By Alastair Stannah, Managing Director, Stannah Lifts Distribution & Service The digital switchover of telephone lines in the United Kingdom is happening now. By 2025, Openreach will have phased out all copper analogue telephone lines in favour of optical fibre ...

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Quick access for Slick Stitch staff

Improving both security and accessibility, TORMAX was recently contracted to remove two manual doors at the Slick Stitch head offices and replace them with new, single sliding automatic entrance systems. Contained in a compact casing that measures just 100mm high, ...

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Kooltherm Pipe Insulation fitted on leading biomedical research building

The University of Warwick’s Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) is breaking new ground in building design. The £33m facility has been constructed with a cutting-edge offsite approach featuring Kingspan Kooltherm Pipe Insulation and Kooltherm Insulated Pipe Support Inserts. The research ...

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Fibo’s wall panels: The antibacterial solution

Specifying products with inherent hygienic properties is vital in order to limit the spread of bacteria – especially in healthcare and education settings. As such, Fibo is pleased to announce that all of its waterproof wall panels have now been ...

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Premier Roofing with BMI Icopal helps preserve priceless exhibits at natural history museum

Shortlisted for the Reinforced Bitumen Membranes category of the UK Roofing Awards 2021, the Natural History Museum at Tring, demonstrates that a close working relationship between contractor and manufacturer can accelerate, simplify and streamline a complex roofing contract. Originally built ...

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Altro adds colour to rejuvenated waiting area at Sheffield Children’s Hospital

A chance hospital visit resulted in a refurbishment of the Emergency Department waiting area at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, using Altro floors and walls and delivered at no cost to the hospital. Over the last two years the NHS has faced ...

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Randex launches vertical storage lift online planning services

Organisations can now use the free ‘Compact Configurator’ tool on Randex.com to produce their own automated storage and handling specification “By sharing our vertical storage technology freely we are helping to democratise business planning” says Randex director James Roberts Leading vertical ...

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Style rescues school’s moveable wall

The hinges, on a folding wall installed at a school in Manchester, had become stretched through general wear and tear, causing it to become unusable. The company responsible for routine servicing of the wall declared that it needed completely replacing, ...

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Bakery business invests heavily in gas to power technology

UK leading generator specialist, DTGen has installed and commissioned a 500KW lean burn gas generator with ComAp controls at McGhee’s Bakery’s manufacturing facility in Glasgow. Following a successful trial, the equipment is now providing the majority of the site’s electrical ...

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