Cladding

Manufacturing firms, who have always been at the forefront of innovation, are facing challenges that not too long ago, seemed unimaginable. They are being...

A high specification glass and aluminium façade has been created using advanced curtain walling solutions from Wicona for a £24 million regeneration project overlooking...

Aliva UK worked with Belfast architects White Ink to provide a stunning, durable facade for the Holiday Inn Express hotel at Aberdeen Airport. White Ink...

FIFE Council has stressed its focus on tenant safety by agreeing a comprehensive response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Part 2 report. The local authority...

NFRC has announced a one-week extension for entries to the UK Roofing Awards 2025. The new deadline is Friday, 17 January and has been made...

With a more buoyant construction market, it is those firms continuing to invest in training that are best placed to help housing providers bring their homes up to modern standards. Billy Baird, Projects Director at roofing and cladding services provider Marley Contract Services, looks at how the company has managed to maintain its skills base. THE skills shortage is particularly acute in the construction industry and encompasses a wide range of disciplines from bricklaying through to plumbing. A lack of...

Scott Horner of Marley Contract Services looks at how their apprenticeship programmes are helping address the skills shortage in the roofing and cladding sector. THE...

Project Scotland speaks to David Gray, managing director – northern regions, Lakesmere Group, as the Group’s turnover gets set to exceed £100 million Q) How...

CHARRED Kebony timber cladding has been used on a new luxury development on the outskirts of Rugby in Warwickshire. BoBen Construction’s Bilton Fields project has...

When the trustees of Leeds Castle, the ancient Norman stronghold in Kent, needed 35,000 handcrafted county peg roof tiles for the castle gatehouse, it...

TWO interlinked healthcare projects in Aberdeen - The Baird Family Hospital and nearby ANCHOR Centre – have highlighted the benefits of offsite fabrication. Having faced...

JAMES Butler has returned to Vivalda Group as the firm's new specification sales and marketing director. He rejoins Vivalda from European glass reinforced concrete (GRC)...

SAVILLS has advised landlord Clydebuilt II Limited Partnership (CLP II), a joint venture between Ediston and Strathclyde Pension Fund, on a leasing deal that...

PRECAST concrete manufacturer Creagh Concrete has delivered a cladding project at the University of St Andrews, as part of its £70 million investment plan...

THE winners of the NFRC Scottish Roofing Awards have been announced during a luncheon at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. This year marked the...

MANY of the biggest names in the roofing, cladding and insulation sectors made their way to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena in late March for the...

THE Scottish Government has confirmed that some of the country's largest housing developers have agreed to work with it to address cladding issues. Holyrood said...

AN ambitious new development to create a shared campus for four schools has benefited from a roofing and cladding package by Lakesmere. The new scheme...

THE first tower block to be built in Paisley has undergone partial refurbishment, using ultra lightweight external cladding from Chromatics Glass. George Court was built...

ONE of Glasgow’s first high-rise buildings has been given a new lease of life under a £27.5m conversion scheme. In a project led by Ryder...