Manrose Reaches Final in H&V News Awards
Manrose is delighted to announce it is a finalist in the H&V News Awards within the Net Zero Impact Category. A leading UK-based ventilation manufacturer, the company has made the …
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Algeco completes Starbucks restaurant in just 6 weeks
Algeco, Europe’s leading modular and offsite building solutions brand, has completed the new modular Starbucks restaurant in Normanton, Derby in just 6 weeks from start to finish. The 6 week …
Breathing Buildings Helps Make Use of Free Heat Gains with Expansion of Award-Winning NVHR Range
Breathing Buildings, a leading provider of controlled natural and hybrid ventilation systems, has added to its award-winning natural ventilation with heat recycling (NVHR) range with its new NVHR® 1700. This …
Vent-Axia Celebrates Global Recycling Day and Improves Indoor Air Sustainably
Ventilation industry leader Vent-Axia is celebrating Global Recycling Day, which takes place on 18 March 2023, by showing its commitment to expanding its range of recycled plastic ventilation products and …
Manrose Welcomes Global Recycling Day and Helps Make Ventilation Sustainable
Manrose, a leading UK-based ventilation manufacturer, has welcomed Global Recycling Day, taking place on 18 March 2023, which aims to highlight the importance recycling plays in preserving the planet’s resources. …
National Ventilation Works to Help the Environment Both Today and Tomorrow
National Ventilation, a leading UK-based ventilation manufacturer and supplier, is working hard to make its ventilation more sustainable to help the environment today and tomorrow. This is great news for …
Swapping Plastic Fantastic for Sustainable Style
Mactaggart & Mickel Launch Eco-Conscious Show Apartment at Stewart Gardens, Newton Mearns Mctaggart & Mickel Homes have launched a spectacular new apartment show home with contemporary yet timeless flair, and …
Vent-Axia Celebrates Lucky Number Three at H&V News Awards
Market-leading ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia is celebrating winning the ‘Domestic Ventilation Product of the Year’ award at the prestigious H&V News Awards for the third year in a row. The company …
Manrose Helps Make Ventilation Sustainable
Manrose, a leading UK-based ventilation manufacturer, is helping make ventilation sustainable for electrical wholesalers and electricians through continuously improving processes to reduce waste throughout its products’ lifecycle. Furthermore, the company …
The Beauty of Reclaimed Wood
The rise in popularity of using reclaimed wood in interiors comes as no surprise. A timeless material that can used in both modern and traditional schemes, reclaimed wood boasts a …
Vent-Axia’s Lo-Carbon PoziDry ProTM Loft PIV Now Made from Recycled Plastic
Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia has re-launched its Lo-Carbon PoziDry ProTM Loft Positive Input Ventilation (PIV), which is now made from recycled plastic. These changes are another step towards more …
Vent-Axia’s Award-Winning MEV Range now Available in Recycled Plastic
Industry ventilation leader and innovator Vent-Axia has launched its award-winning Lo-Carbon™ Multivent mechanical extract ventilation (MEV) range in recycled plastic, making sustainable attainable for housebuilders. Leading UK ventilation, this move to manufacturing …
What did the Romans ever do for us?
One of their many achievements was to introduce ecologically-sound building materials in the form of lime which they used to build structurally complicated forms such as The Pantheon and The …
Preserving the Past and Protecting the Future
Lime is fast becoming the building material of choice in conservation, heritage and new build projects where sustainability is high on the agenda. Lime has a carbon-neutral life cycle, being …
Rethink and reuse before rebuilding, says sustainable construction expert
The construction industry needs to rethink its approach to reusing and recycling buildings if it is to be seen as truly sustainable, according to a leading expert. David Cheshire, sustainability …
Vent-Axia Shows ‘Sustainable is Attainable’
Vent-Axia is sharing how it is taking measurable actions to deliver healthy indoor air sustainably which in turn is helping its own customers make sustainable attainable. With the construction industry …
Top 10 Most Popular Eco-Buildings on Instagram
Architects across the world are finding creative ways to incorporate green features into their building designs. These eco-buildings are often visually striking, and as such, have become popular for amateur …
Sustainable wildlife centre opens in 26-mile long Essex Country Park
A BRAND-NEW wildlife discovery centre has opened in Essex’s River Lee Country Park – using fully recyclable materials that will reduce the building’s impact on landfill waste. The £700,000 development …
Etex on track to hit over 20% recycled plasterboard in products in 2021
Etex, the UK’s leading lightweight construction manufacturer, has announced it has exceeded its recycling targets for 2020 following a surge in plasterboard recycling at its specialist plants and expects to achieve post-consumer …
Aluminium: Helping the construction industry go full circle
Endurawood explores how aluminium can improve building project sustainability As the built environment accounts for around 40 per cent of national energy use, and construction materials are responsible for 20 …
Houses for the future
Constructing sustainable and durable residential buildings In a survey by Home Quality Mark, over two thirds of respondents said sustainable features are important in a prospective property. For a home to …
Concrete: let’s separate the carbon facts from the fiction
As we collectively begin to map our recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, the ways the UK will achieve the target of net-zero carbon by 2050 is coming into sharper focus. …
Recycle Week starts today! Together – We Recycle.
New stats show the UK cares more about the environment than ever before – nearly 9 in 10 households ‘regularly recycle’ The theme for Recycle Now’s 17th annual Recycle Week is …
Multiply by Waugh Thistleton Architects wins Wood Award
Waugh Thistleton Architects, in collaboration with the American Hardwood Export Council and ARUP, has won the Small Project Category at the annual Wood Awards for its design of MultiPly. The …
Innovative construction material protects workers’ health and safety
Durakerb – part of the Econpro Group that transform waste and by-product into sustainable products and solutions – says that alternatives to traditional concrete road kerbs are essential for highway …
England is too lazy to hit recycling targets – Time to get tough
The UKs waste management agency says it’s time to start fining companies that don’t recycle their waste. Britain could quite easily hit its 50% waste recycling target overnight if only …
Decking for the Next Decade
Offering resistance to the ’four S’s: Slip, Stain, Scratch and Sun, UPM ProFi – which is distributed exclusively in the UK by James Latham – boasts a long list of …
One of Britain’s biggest straw-buildings to open for community groups and eco-weddings
One of the biggest volunteer-built organic straw-buildings in Britain, and an architectural piece of innovation constructed of just five main materials, is ready to throw open its doors for the …
Sourcing Raw Materials For The Commercial Interiors Market
With specification markets under increasing pressure to become more sustainable, The Main Company is leading the way within the interiors sector for creating all kinds of inspiring commercial spaces with …
Can the UK’s Construction Lessen Its Plastic Usage?
Every year the UK uses over 5 million tonnes of plastic – that’s about 15 times as heavy as the Empire State Building. But did you know the construction industry …
Vent-Axia Helps Social Housing Providers Reduce Plastic Waste
With over 1 million tonnes of plastic going to landfill every year in the UK alone, industry-leading ventilation company Vent-Axia is helping social housing providers reduce their environmental impact by …
Revolutionising UK Waste Solutions
Key Appointment Adds Momentum adi Waste Systems When we think ‘waste’ and ‘underground’ in this country, it often conjures up the negatives around landfill. But a Birmingham-based multidisciplinary engineering firm …
Down in the dumps with recycling
After a trip to the tip, Ellina Webb ponders over the trivial topic of recycling to uncover if 70% of waste really can be recycled or reused in some way. …
Smaller than a block, larger than a brick…
Lignacite’s new range of ROMAN BRICKS has been created to offer a contemporary design feature to Architects. Lignacite’s Roman Bricks are available in a range of colours, textures and finishes, offering a contemporary …
Vent-Axia Donates Ventilation for Waste House
Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia is delighted to announce that it has donated ventilation equipment to the innovative Waste House project, which is launched today, Tuesday 10 June 2014, in …
Lo-fi inspiration meets hi-fi carpet
Lo-fi inspiration meets hi-fi carpet in Southern AnalogTM, the latest collection from Milliken. In a Milliken sponsored art project, a group of students from Callaway High School in the south …