Luxury Vinyl Flooring From the Belgian Master

Unilin Flooring is home to the Quick-Step and Moduleo brands of luxury vinyl flooring. Unilin Flooring designs and makes luxury vinyl floors in Belgium under the Quick-Step and Moduleo brands. Proven in the commercial market, these floors are known for... View Article

Emberton House, Olympia: From cars to culture

Trevor Morriss, principal at SPPARC discusses how the practice embraced the challenge to convert a historic multi-storey car park at London’s Olympia in the Streamline Moderne style into a hotel and school, as part of the site’s cultural redevelopment. “Adjoining... View Article

Harness the power of EPDs for sustainable specs

Dan Redfern of Marley explains why Environmental Product Declarations are an essential resource for architects seeking to specify sustainable materials. With the built environment accounting for 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions, architects play a vital role in decarbonising buildings.... View Article

Cover and protect with Pendock metal pipe boxing

Pendock metal pipe boxing provides effective protection against damage while helping improve project aesthetics, when concealing external pipework, building services and utilities associated with low carbon district heating, plus air-source and ground-source heat pump installations. Now available for specification on NBS Source, Pendock... View Article

Stepping up to help disabled social housing tenants

Guidance from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities1 is calling for social housing providers to train staff in disability issues to better support impaired tenants. One of the biggest concerns reported among the Department’s Resident Panel for disability... View Article

Work begins on major public transport hub for Haverfordwest, Wales

Work has started on a major new public transport hub for Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales, a key part of the town’s regeneration. Designed by multidisciplinary design practice BDP and built by Kier for Pembrokeshire County Council, the Haverfordwest Public Transport Interchange (HPTI)... View Article

Keepmoat strengthens team with duo of appointments

Top 10 UK housebuilder, Keepmoat, South Midlands, has appointed Ben Roberts as its new Head of Construction and Tonia Tyler as Director of Sales in a move to strengthen the regional office based in Northampton. In his role as Head... View Article

Affordable housing development completed in Cheltenham

A 71-home affordable housing development in Cheltenham has been completed. Gloucestershire-based housing association Bromford completed the final touches to the remaining homes last week, getting them ready for new customers to move in. The homes have been built by Bromford’s... View Article

Highest point reached in the construction of 105 new homes in Basildon

Representatives from Sempra Homes, the subsidiary company of Basildon Council, were joined by Baroness Taylor, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords Minister for Housing and Local Government), and Basildon Council’s leader, Councillor Gavin Callaghan along with representatives from Homes England and... View Article

Practice Profile: ECD Architects

Founded in 1980 as Energy Conscious Design, the subsequently abbreviated ECD Architects merged energy research with architectural practice. It later joined multi-disciplinary construction ‘one stop shop’ N-able Group in 2007, which was in turn recently acquired by the RSK Group... View Article

It’s all happening at UK Construction Week London

UK Construction Week (UKCW), the UK’s No.1 construction destination, is gearing up for its milestone 10th anniversary edition from 07-09 May at Excel London – set to be its biggest and most expansive event yet. For the first time, UKCW... View Article