MACAULAY SINCLAIR has transformed part of a Grade II listed lodge building into Indian café brand Dishoom’s seventh restaurant and bar in Bridge Street in Manchester. After three and a half years of planning, Dishoom Manchester opened on 6 December… Continue Reading →

Work is underway to transform a derelict former women’s hostel in Salford into much-needed social housing. Joan Lestor House on Ellesmere Street, Little Hulton, has stood empty for more than five years, becoming a target for anti-social behaviour and vandalism…. Continue Reading →

Construction work has concluded on the conversion of Rivermill Court, a Grade II listed former mill, into 27 luxury apartments in Kirkstall, North Leeds. Leeds-based Priestley Construction, part of the Priestley Group, completed the £2million transformation of the building, which is… Continue Reading →

The commercial refurbishment division at J Tomlinson has completed the renovation of the University of Sheffield’s Ella Armstrong Building – previously known as the Bio-Incubator – which is now a base for many of the university’s energy researchers. The building… Continue Reading →

Harrogate based consulting engineers practice Brentwood has been appointed to carry out full electrical and mechanical design services for three major student residential build projects in Leeds.   The instructions, delivering a combined 2,079 units valued at over £100 million, take… Continue Reading →

Hywel Davies, Technical Director of CIBSE, looks at the detail. The Government has introduced an amendment to the Building Regulations, which will prohibit the use of ‘combustible cladding’ in high-rise residential buildings above 18 metres. The Building (Amendment) Regulations, SI… Continue Reading →