alison | ecoSHOWCASE Green Building and Facilities Roadshow

Actively seeking designs for low-energy homes of the future

With over 30 years experience within the construction industry.Martin Peat, Director, Richardson & Peat, presents the aims of Active House design… In construction, bringing a scientific approach to the design of a building that commits to an energy standard...

Comar helps achieve a BREEAM rating of excellent for East London school

Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems, with their approved fabricator Veranti Systems, completed a new build to Our Lady and St Josephs Catholic Primary School in Poplar, East London. Formed out of a merger of two schools the bright and eye catching design uses brick...

Romag glass lights the way at Sci-Tech Park artwork

HIGH performance laminated coloured glass from Romag is set to light the way as the centrepiece of a new elemental garden design feature in Cheshire. The contemplative Linear Garden has been newly created at Sci-Tech Park in Daresbury, one of two National Science and...

Presenting great architecture and promoting sustainability: Channel 4’s Grand Designs

A new study in the journal Design and Culture explores how the programme Grand Designs presents architecture and domestic design to a non-specialist audience. Peter Lloyd (University of Brighton) and Arlene Oak (University of Alberta) focus their study on two episodes...

Stoke on Trent City Council’s deputy leader tours Recticel Insulation factory

Leading UK PIR manufacturer Recticel Insulation has played host to an equally leading local councillor. Cllr Abi Brown, deputy leader of Stoke on Trent City Council and leader of its Conservative Group, was recently a guest at Recticel’s state-of-the-art...