Standing seam - Facades with longevity

Specifiers today are increasingly looking for hard-wearing durable products that meet the demands of their local environment. None more so than the skin of a building. Harsh elements from the outside, vapours from the inside and the occasional football kicked from "future" 6 year old international soccer star can take its toll. It's a challenge to balance aesthetics with durability. Prelaq Nova PLX is the solution to this objective, a standing seam material that looks good, is hard-wearing...

Tried, Tested and Trusted Fire Protection for Schools

Each year more than 2000 schools in the UK suffer fires large enough to need action from the fire service. The estimated cost of school fires in the UK is around £115 million. The effect of a school fire can be devastating to local communities and in extreme cases whole schools can be destroyed and lives lost. Timber continues to be a beautiful, sustainable and popular construction choice for school build projects and industrially applied fire retardant impregnation treatments provide real protection...

Bristan to make a splash with new slimline shower panel

Bristan has added to its extensive showering offering with the launch of a new slimline shower panel. Combining a sleek, fashionable low-profile design with technological innovation, the new slimline shower panel is designed to offer a cost-effective, entry-level option for any group shower installations. The new panel features a robust, aluminium extruded body that's easy to install and maintain, helping to reduce labour time and money on busy commercial sites. Further features include a prefabricated timed-flow...

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 and first floor corridors...

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...

Caesarstone installation of the month - domestic kitchen uses Frosty Carrina 5141

The superb choice of Caesarstone Frosty Carrina (5141) for a stunningly beautiful, classic kitchen is the focus of our case study this month. Chosen by bespoke furniture makers, Osborne of Ilkeston, Frosty Carrina - which is from Caesarstone's Supernatural Collection - proved to be the perfect partner for the kitchen's bespoke cabinetry, which is painted in a sophisticated palette of pastel heather and sage colours...