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Keep up to dateRoofing membrane specialist Icopal has launched a range of application tools to compliment its Fire Smart waterproofing solutions range.
It claims the patented flame-free welders minimise the risk of fire. The range includes an automatic, self-propelled side lap welder for sealing overlaps, a full width welder for fully bonding membranes, and a lightweight hand-held welder for detail work.
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
Building’s continually-updated policy tracker will keep you up to speed on the latest pledges and announcements made by the parties in the run up to polling day
A year after the launch of its five-year strategic plan, an independent review of Homes England has set out recommendations for improving the body. But with an election coming soon, what might the future actually hold for the agency? Daniel Gayne reports.
Three new metro-mayoral positions will be among those filled as local and regional elections take place next month. Carl Brown reports.
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