Curtain is lifted on police base
A high specification glass and aluminium façade has been created using advanced curtain walling solutions from Wicona for a £24 million regeneration project overlooking...
27 firms secure places on £20m fire safety framework
A wide range of businesses have secured a place on a new eight-figure framework aimed at safeguarding social housing and public buildings and their...
Great Lakes: Scottish activity helps boost profits for facade specialist
LAKESMERE Glasgow has built up an enviable portfolio of projects across Scotland, having worked on such high-profile schemes as the regional sports facility in...
Winners revealed at NFRC Scottish Roofing Awards 2024
THE winners of the Scottish Roofing Awards 2024 have been announced at an event in Glasgow.
The awards celebrate the work of NFRC members across...
Cool project for ISD
CLADDING, cold store, firewall, and single envelope specialist ISD Solutions has started work on a new distribution centre for Farmfoods in Cumbernauld.
The frozen foods...
Scotland’s proposed building safety levy could raise £30m a year
PROPOSED new legislation could raise around £30 million per year to help fund work to fix residential buildings with unsafe cladding which have no...
Self-cleaning paints and renders – a bright idea?
By Nikolaos Mantelis, product manager at building materials manufacturer Baumit
SELF-cleaning paints and renders offer a sustainable, reliable method of maintaining a building’s façade without...
New Aberdeenshire civic hub pushes the envelope
EJOT UK has collaborated with Scottish distributor Tektum Supplies and roofing and façade contractor Fowler McKenzie to develop a robust fixing specification for the...
Ross Hall Hospital upgrade work complete
MORRIS & Spottiswood has completed a major refurbishment project with Circle Health Group as part of a multi-million pound investment at Glasgow's Ross Hall...
Glasgow firm goes back to school on Highland project
GLASGOW-based roofing and cladding firm Curtis Moore is putting the finishing touches on its furthest north project to date – the Wick Community Campus...
Cladding specification considerations for BTR developments
By Brian G Newell, chief executive of Shackerley
BUILD to rent (BTR) developments have become such a proven property investment model that high-end BTR projects...
A towering triumph
Brian Newell, founder and chief executive of ventilated façade specialist, Shackerley, discusses the SureClad® engineered stone façade specification for the University of Edinburgh’s Appleton...
Deadline to enter UK Roofing Awards extended by one week
NFRC has announced a one-week extension for firms wishing to enter projects for consideration in the UK Roofing Awards 2023.
The new deadline is...
McConnell MD looks to build on a great legacy
EVOLUTION, not revolution, is the approach Eamonn McGarvey has taken since becoming MD of Kilmarnock-based specialist roofing company Hugh LS McConnell in August 2018.
The...
An Equinox that will last all year – Eurocell
EUROCELL has announced an advanced tiled roof system for new and refurbishment projects.
The latest addition, Equinox, can be used to transform an existing roof...
Flashings for luxury cabins
FAKRO has supplied 31 FTP-V centre pivot and FPP-V top hung and pivot roof windows with bespoke flashings for luxury, self-catering log cabins at...
A façade for all seasons
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...
Accommodating supplier completes treble for students
STUDENTS at a new accommodation complex have been given a lesson in rainscreen and tailor-made architectural fabrications.
Manufacturer Sotech supplied a range of its products...
The changing faces of façades
Manufacturing firms, who have always been at the forefront of innovation, are facing challenges that not too long ago, seemed unimaginable. They are being...
Cop a load of these apartments
A new 136-apartment building in Bristol boasts a 170m long façade, clad in Nordic Brown Light pre-oxidised copper.
Designed by Ferguson Mann Architects, the Copper...
