Global building envelope specialists SFS opens the doors to its industry leading innovation hub, with the aim of ‘Connecting the construction industry of today and tomorrow’. The Academy, situated at SFS’s Leeds head office, launched on the evening of Thursday… Continue Reading →

Recent redevelopment of the food court at Kings Mall Shopping centre, on a five-acre site in London’s Hammersmith area, exposed  up some interesting and complex challenges. As part of the ongoing development, the new residential apartments above the shopping centre… Continue Reading →

Focus Consultants has been appointed as quantity surveyors on a £5.5m project to restore Coventry’s Grade II* listed Drapers’ Hall in time for the city being UK City of Culture in 2021. The building in the heart of the Cathedral… Continue Reading →

A derelict former Royal Mail Sorting Office in Northampton has been renovated and reopened as an innovative 2220-place academy school for Northamptonshire County Council and East Midlands Academy Trust. London-based architecture practice Architecture Initiative has completed a project to turn… Continue Reading →

A new edition of the Code of Practice for fire alarms in housing – BS 5839-6:2019 – has just been published, with important implications for all types of housing, as Kidde reports. The latest edition of the Code was published… Continue Reading →

For maintenance deal worth up to £28m Repairs and maintenance specialist Morgan Sindall Property Services has been selected by South Essex Homes, the arm’s length management organisation of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, to deliver property maintenance services for the council’s portfolio… Continue Reading →