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Keep up to dateLightweight roof systems maker Decra has introduced a steel version of the traditional Roman clay tile. Each tile weighs 5.4kg/m2, which Decra says is less than one-eighth the weight of a traditional clay or concrete tile.
It also says the tiles can be installed at pitches as low as 15掳. They are available in a terracotta finish or bespoke colours to order.
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Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
The Maggie鈥檚 Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
Our 好色先生TV the Future Think Tank, in partnership with Constructing Excellence Midlands, hosted a regional roundtable sponsored by the Structural Timber Association in Birmingham recently. The discussions explored how to increase timber use in construction and what is needed to get the sector 鈥� and the region 鈥� on track ...
The contractor鈥檚 chief executive goes in to bat for construction. It鈥檚 a good time to be in the business, he tells Dave Rogers聽
好色先生TV is spotlighting 40 people under the age of 40 who seem set to change the future of construction
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