Tips on How to Get Your Home Ready for Summer

We may not notice it immediately, but the days are getting a little longer, and the air is getting hotter. You may be woken up by chirping birds or the warm touch of the morning light. It is because summer... View Article

DLA Completes New post-Covid Hybrid Workspace

DLA Architecture has completed the radical interior design project for the new 70,000 ft² headquarters of Home Group in Newcastle. Home Group is one of the UK’s largest providers of housing, health and care, employing nearly 3,000 colleagues. With a... View Article

How To Enhance The Security Of Your Rental Property

Renting a property can be a lucrative investment to generate income as a landlord. However, part of protecting your building site or housing development asset should go to applying the right security measures.  Doing this will increase the safety of... View Article

Smart Office Design: Building the Future

An increasing number of businesses and organisations are converting their workspaces into smart offices due to the benefits these models provide in terms of productivity and employee satisfaction. The primary forces behind this growth are the advancements of IoT technologies,... View Article

What it Means to Build Secure Student Housing

When it comes to building student housing, safety has to be the top priority. Parents entrust their children’s safety to educational institutions and universities, and it’s essential that they provide secure living environments for their students.  In addition to building... View Article

Construction Site Security Considerations and Tips

Construction sites can be a prime target for opportunistic criminals, and commonly suffer theft, vandalism, and a host of other security breaches. Criminals know that construction sites typically have a variety of valuable equipment, materials, and tools left unattended for... View Article

Bombshelter makeover

Berkeley Place renovated a basement duplex apartment situated in a prime residential street in Clifton. During the basement renovation, an amazing piece of history was found. On the wall handwritten is a record of the 2nd World War air raids... View Article

ROCKWOOL® launches recladding guide

Stone wool insulation manufacturer, ROCKWOOL®, has added to its suite of industry support resources with the launch of the Recladding with ROCKWOOL guide for specifiers. Following the ban on combustible materials in relevant new buildings over 18 metres (ADB updated... View Article

Designed-in air quality

The new Part F raises the bar for domestic ventilation, given the need to ensure air quality in more efficient house constructions. Lee Caulfield from Titon explains further Ventilation plays vital role for ensuring occupants’ health within a home, and... View Article

Practice Profile: Medical Architecture

Creating therapeutic environments is Medical Architecture’s specialty. Directors at the practice Lianne Knotts and Ruairi Reeves explain to ADF’s Laura Shadwell how they are continuing to push boundaries in healthcare architecture Medical Architecture; it does what it says on the... View Article

Future-proof your housing projects with the QUBEV Smart

Introducing Rolec EV’s latest addition to their charging range, the QUBEV Smart. An intelligent, modern chargepoint that doesn’t force you to choose between quality and affordability… The QUBEV Smart is the most affordable electric vehicle chargepoint in the UK. Paired... View Article