View the Rockpanel entry on BPi Visit the Rockpanel website The £48 million retirement village, ExtraCare Longbridge, is an important part of developer St. Modwen’s £1billion Longbridge regeneration project in Birmingham. Carefully designed to encourage and support an independent and enriching lifestyle, the village opened in July 2017 and provides affordable and flexible living options for senior citizens. The development offers …
CREATING A CALM, PRODUCTIVE AND QUIET LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
View the Rockwool entry on BPi Visit the Rockwool website View the National Autistic Society Anderson School Case Study View the NAS Rockwool Acoustic Solution video External, ambient noise can be a major headache for schools, causing distraction, disruption and, at worse, impacting negatively on the academic performance of students. The National Autistic Society Anderson School and Enterprise Campus, a major …
Axis at Healthcare Estates 2018 and on BIMobject®
View the Axis entry on BPi Visit the Axis website Axis Automatic Entrance Systems exhibited at this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition in Manchester. Axis are regular attendees at HCE since 2015 when they won the IHEEM Product Innovation Award for their Flo-Motion® Manual Sliding Doors. Flo-Motion® doors again featured on the stand showcasing their unique, fingertip control now …
Act Smart and Save the Date
View the Geze entry on BPi Visit the Geze website GEZE UK will demonstrate some ‘joined up thinking’ when it takes part at this year’s Smart Buildings Show (7-8 November 2018) at the Barbican, London. Its stand, F3, Hall 2, is a third bigger than last year and will feature the latest integrated products that can form part of intelligent …
Working as safely on industrial and fragile roofs
View the Easi-Dec entry on BPi Visit the Easi-Dec website According to the HSE, on average 7 people are killed each year falling through a fragile roof or fragile roof light. These accidents usually occur on the roofs of factories, warehouse and farm buildings where repair or cleaning work is being undertaken Designed to overcome the challenges of working on fragile roofs …
From medieval priest doors to a modern means of access…
View the Bilco entry on BPi Visit the Bilco website Bilco UK has supplied an innovative replacement roof hatch for a medieval church in Norfolk. St Mary’s is one of the 653 churches within the Diocese of Norwich. It is an interesting and unique site with three medieval churches sitting within one churchyard. St Michael’s, was refurbished in 2011 and is used …
Astroglaze walk-on rooflight helps transform outside space in central London
View the National Domelight Company on BPi Visit the National Domelight Company website The Project Architect Sara Bondia lived in a first-floor apartment in central London with no outdoor space. Right in front of her kitchen window lay the roof of the ground-floor extension. Keen to spend some time in the open air, Sara decided to convert that roof into …
Access in Bomber Command Centre
View the Stannah entry on BPi Visit the Stannah website Mission: To bring freedom of access for people of all mobilities to International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC), Lincolnshire. Opened in January 2018, this world-class resource is dedicated to the recognition, remembrance and reconciliation of Bomber Command’s role in WWII. Two passenger lifts must unite two floors of facilities, comprising Digital Archives, Losses Database, …
HOLCOMBE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FITTED WITH FLOATING FLOOR UFH
View the Warmafloor entry on BPi Visit the Warmafloor website Holcombe Grammar School, formerly known as Chatham Grammar, has a proud history dating back over 200 years. Situated in its current location since the 1920s, the property has undergone significant alterations and developments over the years to ensure it remains a first-class educational facility. The school is currently going through …
GLENDYNE RESTORES HISTORIC CHAPEL TO FORMER GLORY
View the Cembrit entry on BPi Visit the Cembrit website Cembrit Glendyne natural slates have been specified and installed on a unique renovation project for the Historic Hampshire landmark, Netley Chapel, which saw the local community contributing financially to the restoration project. Before slating began, the public were invited to site to mark the occasion and “sponsor a slate”. For …