Green roofs – basic understanding and common misconceptions

Nick Day, Managing Director at Optigreen Ltd answers some of their customer’s most frequent questions… The increase in the number of green roof specifications over the last few years has led to more people, be they architects, builders or roofing...

Redland Regent crowns residential block

By employing a suite of products from Redland – a UK leading manufacturer and supplier of pitched roof systems – contractors and consultants have saved the residents of a block of 30 apartments from years of leaking roofs. Kearton Place in Caterham, Surrey, was built...

Surplus heat from data centre to heat thousands of Oslo homes

DigiPlex, the Nordic region’s leading data center supplier, and Norway’s largest district heating supplier, Fortum Oslo Varme, have signed a letter of intent on the recovery of heat from DigiPlex’s data center at Ulven in Oslo. The agreement...

Charcon joins the Birmingham Cycle Revolution

Charcon Hard Landscaping, a division of Aggregate Industries, has joined Birmingham’s Cycle Revolution by supplying 955l/m of its award-winning Cycle Kerb for the city’s new, multi-million pound cycle highway. Birmingham City Council’s vision for its Cycle Revolution...