View the Rockpanel entry on BPindex Visit the Rockpanel website Since February 2019, residents in the commune of Celles-en-Hainaut in Belgium can do sports, dance or take yoga classes in a brand-new sports hall with a look that clearly stands out from the rest. What makes this complex so unique? The building façade and the Rockpanel Woods boards that are …
Upward extensions with Eurobrick
View the Eurobrick entry on BPindex Visit the Eurobrick website Adding floors to buildings can be a complicated process, particularly as far as the foundations are concerned, but Eurorbick’s lightweight cladding systems can help to simplify the process. The leader of the brick slip cladding sector has seen an increase in upward extension projects, which are a great solution where …
Cembrit HD is in the Wings at Twickenham
View the Cembrit entry on BPindex Visit the Cembrit website Cembrit HD (heavy duty) board has recently been installed in the newly redeveloped East Stand at Twickenham, the home of England Rugby. Resilient, hard wearing and with an impressive fire rating, HD is an ideal multi-use board for high traffic areas in sports stadia such as Twickenham, which on match …
Fire Safety on high-rise or high-risk buildings
View the Rockpanel entry on BPindex Visit the Rockpanel website View the Rockpanel safety comes first video When it comes to fire safety, two types of buildings need some extra attention: high-rise and high-risk buildings. What do these terms exactly mean? And what should you bear in mind to ensure optimum safety? High-rise buildings What is a high-rise building? Height …
PEACE OF MIND FOR CLADDING SPECIFIERS – BBA CERTIFICATE FOR CEMBRIT
View the Cembrit entry on BPi Visit the Cembrit website Cembrit is pleased to announce that it has received approval from the British Board of Agrément (BBA) for its cladding product range, providing peace of mind to specifiers who choose to use Cembrit’s non-combustible fibre cement cladding boards on their projects. What is certified? Cembrit Patina, Solid and Cover are …
Village life is safe and well at ExtraCare Longbridge
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 …
(Extra) Fire safety meets design
View the Rockpanel entry on BPi Visit the Rockpanel website Safe and secure, the advanced features of the A2 (FS-Xtra) board from Rockpanel delivers a new dimension to your exterior cladding design. An elegant combination of fire safety with the broadest range of aesthetic finishes and RAL/NCS colours, ensures your building meets or in some cases exceeds European fire safety …
SFS provides a single secret fix solution for Cembrit rainscreen range
View the Cembrit entry on BPi Visit the Cembrit website Installing Cembrit fibre cement rainscreen panels as thin as 8mm using mechanical secret fixings just became quicker, easier and safer thanks to the innovative new range of TUF-S rivets by the world’s leading fastening systems manufacturer SFS. Extensive testing by SFS demonstrated how TUF-S challenges the convention that installers need …
A flexible brick finish to suit any residential project
View the Eurobrick entry on BPi Visit the Eurobrick website Eurobrick was first to introduce a comprehensively designed brick slip cladding system to the UK nearly 30 years ago, and has supplied many different kinds of residential housing projects since. These days, increasing numbers of projects are delivered using modern methods of construction but brick remains a popular finish, particularly …
CEMBRIT OFFERS NEW CHOICE FOR WEATHERBOARD
View the Cembrit entry at BPi Visit the Cembrit website Today, the leading fibre cement building product manufacturer, Cembrit, is entering the UK market with a brand-new fibre cement weatherboard – Cembrit Plank. Extremely versatile, low in maintenance, and rot, rust, warp, crack, sun, heat, rain and fire resistant, this board is an excellent alternative to timber and plastic based …