Acorn Blue and Kensa Heat Pumps build sustainable luxury coastal community
- Details
- Hits: 3335
A landmark luxury housing development comprising forty apartments and houses currently under construction amongst the famous dunes of Perranporth beach in Cornwall is using pioneering architecture and sustainable development to breathe new life into a former derelict hotel site.
“The Dunes”, set for completion in June 2018 by developers Acorn Blue, has completed the groundworks stage for Kensa’s Shoebox ground source heat pumps, which will be sited inside each of the dwellings to provide 100% of the two apartment blocks, five coach houses and four beach houses heating and hot water.
Read more: Acorn Blue and Kensa Heat Pumps build sustainable luxury coastal community
Bull raise the bar with responder stations upgrade
- Details
- Hits: 3250
Bull Products, a manufacturer of life-saving fire protection equipment, has upgraded its First Responder Stations with a smart solution that will significantly reduce costs for contractors and construction companies, and ensure quicker detection installation.
Unlike mobile first responder stations – which incorporate fire extinguishers and a Cygnus fire alarm – heat and smoke detectors have to be fixed to ceilings or walls using ladders or podiums, which can be cumbersome and impose a risk of a fall from height.
Read more: Bull raise the bar with responder stations upgrade
Tough time for judges: APS announces entries into national awards
- Details
- Hits: 3713
With its National CDM and Student Designer Awards shortlist announcement due later this month, the Association for Project Safety (APS) has announced a bumper year of entries into its UK-wide competition.
Across the nine different categories in the National CDM Awards, the judges have been overwhelmed with the quantity and quality of entries. Head of Events and External Communications, Laura Hardie, said:
Read more: Tough time for judges: APS announces entries into national awards
‘Bumper’ round to benefit the county
- Details
- Hits: 3203
An increasing presence in and around the East Midland and East Anglian region, local business Mick George Ltd is certainly justifying its attendance, with yet another funding donation to seventeen separate developments.
The first of two annual ‘Community Fund’ announcements, the organisation is set to provide funding to an abundance of community based initiatives, to a value in its entirety that surpasses £460,000, with some of the fortunate recipients based in the Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Bedfordshire territory.
Array – a sound decision by Heckmondwike
- Details
- Hits: 2920
Jeremy Broadhead, Commercial Manager at Heckmondwike FB, looks at why carpet is being widely specified for its acoustic properties.
“Managing noise in a building continues to present a challenge for designers, which is why there is specific legislation covering different building types and uses. Schools should be designed in accordance with Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) Acoustic Design of Schools, the latest version of which was updated in 2014.