Ryan Abell, owner of Abell Building Services, describes when it can be more advantageous to use a small house builder for custom house projects.
House building seems to continually be at the top of the agenda for the Government, but it is also a very popular way to invest money into something that is personal to you, or which will bring investors the greatest benefit.
Western Thermal, leading specialist engineers in thermal & acoustic insulation, ductwork, ventilation, trace heating, and fire stopping, with over thirty years’ experience, has completed three major trace heating projects at the Zig Zag Building in Victoria, London’s Victoria Station, and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) building at Burghfield, Reading.
All three projects centered on Western Thermal’s frost protection service which provides constant hot water flow through pipes.
Virtual Reality (VR) was born as a tool for gaming. It enables people to immerse into a new dimension while playing their favourite games. The extraordinary characteristics of VR give users the chance to get thrown into a new, digitally constructed reality, which resembles real life. But the gaming industry is not the only place where VR is useful. Coping with reality is a real challenge for professionals working in the construction industry: it is indeed very well-known, when projects come to life, they can be threatened by a high amount of inefficiencies that result in low profit margins.
Ventilation design and specification for multi-occupancy buildings is now as simple as A,B,C through an innovative approach pioneered by Gilberts.
Britain’s leading air movement specialist is the first to develop a stock, single-unit hybrid solution focussed on natural ventilation with heat recovery- its Mistrale Fusion System (MFS). The company’s pioneering approach has continued, with the evolution of the system that now enables simple addition of extra elements.
Aspex, one of the UK’s leading doorset companies, has successfully fire tested the Novista Riser Steel doorset with multiple door leafs mounted in a single frame.
The doorsets were tested to BS EN1634-1: 2014 and BS EN1363: 2012 for two hours by Exova, the UKAS accredited testing company in High Wycombe.
URETEK, one of the world’s leading contractors specialised in geopolymer technology for ground engineering, has been awarded the contract to treat voided soils on behalf of Highways England as part of the on-going maintenance works following completion of the M3 smart motorway between junctions 2 and 4a.
According to HSE, slips and trips are the most common cause of injury at work. On average, they cause 40 per cent of all reported major injuries and can also lead to other types of serious accidents such as falls from height.
Drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has used advanced camera survey technology to dramatically cut the cost, time and inconvenience to the public of surveying more than 100 deep sewer shafts.
A two-person team used an IBAK Panoramo SI camera to complete full inspection surveys of more than 100 manholes across Broadstairs and Ramsgate, Kent, for Southern Water in just two weeks.
A conventional approach would have required the shafts to be inspected through confined space entry, taking up to three months to complete.
The Structural Concrete Alliance has shortlisted three projects for the 2017 Structural Concrete Alliance Award for Repair and Refurbishment, with the winner to be announced by former BBC Breakfast Host, Bill Turnbull, at the Concrete Society Awards Dinner to be held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on 16th November.
The winners were chosen from entries received from members of the three trade associations which make up the Structural Concrete Alliance: the Concrete Repair Association (CRA); Corrosion Prevention Association (CPA); and the Sprayed Concrete Association (SCA).
Smart-Space, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and installers of temporary, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed the construction of a fully-insulated, permanent workshop for Bolt Building Supplies at the builders and timber merchant’s headquarters in Halstead, Essex.
