Blinds for education-new DWG's for download

The College Blind is known as blinds that wont break and is designed as THE ultra strong blind for schools and education, maintenance free, with a ten year guarantee. Unique features have ensured its success in numerous applications throughout the UK. Application the College Blind is chosen for teaching rooms, classrooms, communal areas, waiting areas, FE colleges, secondary and primary schools for glare control or room darkening. Operation the College Blind is manually operated by a gearbox and crank rod..

Uridan water-free urinals provide solution to water leakage

Winchmore School, London N21 a co-educational secondary school has completed a washroom refit specifying Franke's Uridan waterless Cadet Pod GRP Urinals. Adrian Bailey, Facilities Manager at Winchmore School explained, "We wanted a waterless solution to reduce water use and maintenance costs. There are other water-free products available for this type of installation but we wanted assurance it would stand the wear and tear of secondary school pupils and be completely odour free."...

Yeoman Shield Goes Back to School

Yeoman Shield returned to Sutton Academy, a busy school in St Helens, Merseyside which caters for 1300 children aged 11 to 18 years, to install a further phase of wall protection. Works had been carried out previously by Yeoman Shield over a year ago which proved to be so successful in protecting the walls in corridors around the school that they were awarded further work. "The wall protection initially supplied and installed by Yeoman Shield was in the student reception area...

ROCKFON Mono Acoustic proves to be the perfect fit

Mono® Acoustic TE ceiling system from ROCKFON has been installed at one of the leading academic sixth form colleges in the country, King Edward VI College, Stourbridge. Architects' practice Bryant Priest Newman (BPN) specified the ROCKFON monolithic render system for the new teaching areas. Phill Shepherd, RIBA Architect, BPN Architects explains why: "The challenge was to find a product that provided the clean aesthetic appearance of a plastered ceiling whilst providing higher acoustic performance requirements...

Modular Showering Solutions

Leading shower cubicle and bathroom pod manufacturer, Taplanes Ltd, provide prefabricated solutions to a variety of end users throughout the UK and Ireland. With a strong client base including Universities, Schools, Housing Associations and Hotels, Taplanes pre-formed shower enclosures overcome the inherent problems associated with conventional bathroom areas. Taplanes provide both one-piece and sectional pod designs. The sectional construction is primarily aimed towards the refurbishment sector...

Armstrong advises on thermal priorities for schools

Interior building solutions provider Armstrong Ceilings was quick off the mark when the Government recently announced Phase Two of its Priority School Building Programme (PSBP). For shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the programme would benefit thousands of pupils with better, brighter, warmer classrooms, Armstrong was hosting a seminar advising specifiers and contractors just how they could achieve cost-effective thermal comfort solutions...