04/01/13 - Water Damage CheckWinter can throw up a variety of nasty surprises for many buildings and their owners or managers. We expect snow, ice, sleet, and severe temperature drops, which means our buildings suffer more glazing and façade damage in winter than ..

17/12/12 - Kings Cross Western ConcourseKings Cross, one of Britain's oldest railway terminals recently opened it's new extension to the Western concourse. With its soaring elliptical roof and intricate webbed tracery of steel and glass, it is not only an architecturally..

12/12/12 - Energy Efficient Co-opBelieve it or not this is the new CO-OP HQ in Manchester. It may look extravagant but don't be fooled. true to the Co-op’s commercial ethics in fact it has been designed to be one of the most energy efficient of commercial buildings. ..

07/12/12 - When Water Infiltration in Glazing is a GOOD thingBefore you think I've gone completely crazy, let me explain. If you consider that a glazed structure, be it a simple rooflight or thousands of square metres of glass and aluminium is a "live" organism. By that I mean that it is constan..

03/12/12 - Environmental Impact Of GlassOn the face of it, the use of glass would appear to have quite a negative impact on the environment. While it's true the production of glass represents high embodied energy, it is what happens After production that pulls things around...