Fast-track flooring installations

Flooring installations increasingly face pressure to be completed to exacting time constraints, often requiring flooring contractors to work around other trades to allow projects to be completed and areas brought into use as quickly as possible. Neil Sanders, technical director... View Article

Metal-web or I-Joists – what are the considerations?

Metal-web and I-Joists are two popular choices for new builds and both play an important structural role in buildings – supporting floors and roofs to transfer their weight evenly to the walls and beams below. Metal-web and I-Joists are engineered... View Article

Recipe for success

Take one traditional childhood home, deconstruct it, then add delicious curves to whip up a stunning property for chef Andrew Wong and his family. TEXT DEBBIE JEFFERY IMAGES JAMES MCDONALD British-born chef Andrew Wong grew up in the same Pimlico... View Article

Metal-web or I-Joists – what are the considerations?

Metal-web and I-Joists are two popular choices for new builds and both play an important structural role in buildings – supporting floors and roofs to transfer their weight evenly to the walls and beams below.  Metal-web and I-Joists are engineered... View Article

Experts Warn New Homes Risk being unfit for modern life

Logistics and transport experts are warning that new housing developments across the UK risk being unfit for modern life unless they are designed with both public transport and delivery infrastructure in mind. From high-rise city living to new homes in... View Article

Detailed plans submitted for 155 new homes in Colney Heath

Bellway has submitted detailed plans for a development of much-needed new homes in South Hertfordshire. The company secured outline planning permission for the project and completed the purchase of the 12-acre site in Colney Heath in November last year. Its... View Article

The Rise of Hosting is Influencing Home Makeovers

As the cost of going out continues to climb, Britons are increasingly turning their attention to the home as the heart of social life, according to new research from the Ideal Home Show – the UK’s longest-running home and lifestyle exhibition, bringing together... View Article

Low carbon heating

Niall Parkin at Calor discusses the role of LPG and BioLPG as a long-standing and dependable heating solution for off-grid domestic properties. Self-build is becoming increasingly popular in the UK, with more than 64,000 individuals now registered on local authority... View Article