The need to preserve a Tameside church building has highlighted the specialist historic building expertise offered by a leading north west structural engineering consultancy. Marple Bridge-based Rhodes & Partners recently completed a structural assessment of the bell tower of St… Continue Reading →

The SME construction sector grew in the second quarter of 2017, albeit at a slower rate than the first three months of the year, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). Key results from the FMB’s State of Trade… Continue Reading →

Bennetts Associates’ Storyhouse in Chester, featuring a Proteus HR rainscreen clad copper ‘head’, is an inspired rework and reinvigoration of the 1930s Odeon cinema. Executed in Proteus HR TECU copper, the ribbed, abstracted rainscreen clad fins envelope the 150-seat studio… Continue Reading →