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 →

Three young architecture graduates have won the Society for the Protection of Ancient Building’s (SPAB) prestigious ‘new design in historic contexts’ award, the Philip Webb Award, for their separate schemes proving that with imagination and sensitivity you don’t need to… Continue Reading →

World’s best architecture students celebrated at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. The VELUX Group is proud to announce that “Light Froms Juggler” by Anastasia Maslova and “Road to Light” by Yuhan Luo, Di Lan, Yuan Liu, Yusong Liu are… Continue Reading →

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP has taken a strong stance on the issue of cladding and forcing the removal and reinstatement of a safer product.  For months James Brokenshire… Continue Reading →