How to build more sustainably

With eco-friendly materials and building practices an important consideration for today’s homemaker, you’ll want to know where your products come from – and are they sustainable? In recent years, sustainability has been associated with high price points and luxury builds,... View Article

Hidden benefits

LISTEN HERE Health and beauty retailer Boots UK is well known for offering beauty products to enhance the stylish good looks of its customers, so the entrance to their brand new store in Kensington High Street in London, just had... View Article

Stunning Bjelin products at CDW in May!

Bjelin will participate in the UK’s leading design festival, Clerkenwell Design Week, on the 23rd-25th of May 2023, where they will show several new flooring products featuring Välinge Innovation technologies. The world’s leading design brands come together during CDW to... View Article

Zentia ceilings help give Custom House a new lease of life

Zentia’s acoustic ceilings star in a Glasgow landmark. Mineral ceiling tiles by leading UK manufacturer Zentia have played an instrumental part in the redevelopment of Glasgow’s historic Grade A listed Custom House. Some 3,500m² of Zentia’s Ultima+ range features in... View Article

Innovative student breakout space from Style

Northeastern University London recently relocated to a brand new, 21st century campus within Devon House, St Katharine Docks, where students enjoy a vibrant, collegiate community that delivers academically rigorous degree programmes. Working with contractor, Workplace Creations, Style was asked to... View Article

Feel the Express Difference

Our showrooms are a key part of the Express Difference. That’s why we spent the first few weeks of 2023 giving all our showrooms the TLC they deserve; upgrading both sites to display our exciting new products in all their... View Article

Pipe boxing, maintenance and tenant satisfaction

With the new tenant satisfaction measures (TSM) now in force, maintaining quality standards and completing work within acceptable time frames, has become even more important when planning social housing maintenance, heating improvements and safety upgrades. Although concealing pipework for sprinklers,... View Article

How timber can dovetail into the circular economy

With the construction industry responsible for a third of the world’s total waste, Scott Martin from Mumford & Wood asks when is the sector going to take responsibility The industry’s monumental output of non-biodegradable and often hazardous materials has been... View Article

Building in accessibility

Yola Mealing of Stiltz Homelifts considers how factoring in accessibility at project planning stage delivers the ‘forever home’ that clients are desiring As more homes are reworked for multi-functional living, the opportunity exists to create properties that cater for all... View Article

Testing your metal

With regulation changes and a market still in recovery mode, specifiers and architects looking to utilise metal for roofing and cladding should expect fresh challenges over the coming months, says Simon Walker at SIG Design and Technology As a global... View Article

Streamlined automatic access for spa guests

At the new £4.3m luxury spa, Breedon Priory in Derbyshire, access specialist TORMAX was contracted by Smart Aluminium Ltd to install their sophisticated bi-parting automatic sliding door system to the rear of the building, giving guests effortless access out onto... View Article