NEC promises a beautiful Concrete Show in 2013

Staged at the NEC in Birmingham for the first time, the largest concrete event in Europe, the UK Concrete Show 2013, will take place on 27 and 28 February. Of particular interest to the architectural profession will be that, for the first time, the 2013 show will feature the theme of ‘Beautiful Concrete’.

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Baumit UK Showcases Their Innovative Baumit OPEN® External Wall Thermal Insulation Render Technology at EcoBuild 2013

Baumit UK will be showcasing their innovative new external thermal insulation technology Baumit OPEN® EWI system at EcoBuild 2013 from 5-7 March 2013.

With over 30 years’ proven experience in Europe, Baumit are now offering their industry leading portfolio of external thermal insulation systems, façades and renders to the UK market through their network of distributors and highly trained installers. Their broad portfolio of EWI and rendering products provides a one-stop shop for architects, builders, designers, and specifiers aiming for improved energy and cost efficiencies, insulation properties and compliance with Green Deal requirements:

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Marshalls at Ecobuild 2013 Demonstrating the Superior Performance of Ferrocast® Street Furniture

Come and join the Marshalls team at this year’s Ecobuild, stand S1620, where they will be demonstrating the superior performance of Ferrocast® street furniture.

Ferrocast® has become an increasingly popular material choice for a wide range of street furniture applications because of its looks, strength, high durability, low maintenance, design flexibility, and value for money. Whilst capable of exactly replicating the appearance of cast iron, Ferrocast®, manufactured in the UK, offers so much more, with a wide range of benefits over the older material, which is now rarely available from a UK foundry. In fact, Marshalls challenges you to visit the stand and see if you can tell the difference between the two materials.

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Smart to Showcase Sustainable Systems at Ecobuild

Commercial systems specialist Smart Architectural Aluminium is to showcase a number of new products at this year’s Ecobuild exhibition, as well as presenting its sustainability credentials.

The company will use the exhibition to unveil its drive to become a carbon neutral business including plans to be energy self-sufficient.  Previewing the company’s plans, Managing Director Eddie Robinson said: “Over recent years, we have implemented a range of environmental policies and procedures including an ISO14001 Environmental Management System and the introduction of strict recycling protocols.

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RMG SCORES A HAT TRICK WITH PERSIMMON HOMES & CHARLES CHURCH DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EAST OF ENGLAND

Leading managing agent Residential Management Group (RMG: www.rmgltd.co.uk; tel: 0845 002 4310) is continuing to grow and strengthen relationships with major property companies around the UK, following agreement with Persimmon Homes and Charles Church to work on three new developments in East Anglia.

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Steel Ladders: Are You Comparing like for like?

LFI TuffSteel Ladders for Scaffolding:

BRITISH MANUFACTURED & CERTIFIED TO BS EN131 Licence KM34154 & ISO 9000 QA systems.

LFI ‘TuffSteel’ Products are the very best steel ladders available meeting all the manufacturing standards to give absolute peace of mind for ultimate safety and durability. Don’t be caught out by cheap imitations. Thoroughly check alternative products to make sure they are ‘UP TO THE JOB’.

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The SCA Group – A UK Company with International Aspirations

The SCA Group, multi-disciplinary industrial support specialists from Dorset, transfer their skills to a greater variety of industries than the UK’s leading facilities management providers.

Providing bespoke access, containment and hard facilities management services, often in extremely challenging locations – not many organisations claim they can paint the hull of a ship while elsewhere carrying out wind farm repairs 15 miles off the coast – the SCA Group are now in the throes of pulling together suitable employers in the south who can complete the ideal team to bid for government funding with focus on training for work in the ever expanding renewable energy industries.

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Townscape’s double stacking cycle racks create quadruple the space for Peterborough

THE post-Olympic cycling boom continues apace in Peterborough as the town’s railway station installs double-decker cycle racks to cope with demand.

Station owners faced with a rising number of customers arriving on bikes tasked street furniture manufacturer, Townscape Products, to design cycle racks which could quadruple capacity without using additional space.

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RECYCLED MODULAR SOLUTION ALLOWS SIXTH FORM COLLEGE TO BENEFIT FROM MORE CLASSROOMS

Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, the UK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings, has handed over a new teaching block at St John Rigby College near Wigan. The use of recycled building modules allowed the sixth form college to benefit from a larger building and more classrooms for the available budget.

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NW Systems’ RemoteManager set to capture redevelopment of King’s Reach Tower London

NW Systems Group’s RemoteManager end-to-end video monitoring solution has been selected by London-based developer CIT which begins work this month on one of London’s largest redevelopments at King’s Reach Tower, South Bank.

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