Alpha has expanded its renewable heating technology range with the Magis M Top, a monobloc air source heat pump designed for newbuild and retrofit residential properties. The Magis M Top provides heating, cooling and domestic hot water and can achieve flow temperatures of up to 75°C. Using advanced inverter technology, the system regulates its output in line with real-time demand. This ensures maximum performance while minimising electricity consumption, especially during mi

Eight golden tickets took a group of installers to ESBE’s Reftele factory in Sweden for an intensive, entertaining two-day course, where they could hone their skills and familiarise themselves with pumps and valves specifically developed to improve heat pump performance. The group had all attended an industry training seminar last September at Kings Norton Golf Club, Birmingham, organised by iNstallD. This education hub was established by engineer Dominic Eves, who is a stron

Rinnai Director Chris Goggin looks at current domestic energy policy and the movement towards widespread electrification. Current UK energy policy aims to introduce wider electrification for issues relating to domestic energy security and lessening carbon output. One, if not the, reason for this shift away from fossil fuels is the potential geopolitical weaponisation of oil and natural gas. Exorbitant cost spikes perpetuate the reputation of fossil fuels as being an unreliabl

The first site development by a new luxury housebuilder is benefiting from Proctor Group’s Proctor Air® underlay on the pitched roof. Braddus Homes is a small housing developer set up by childhood friends who wanted to offer something different to the volume housebuilding companies they had previously worked for. Their first development is Priory Fields, a site of four homes, each with five bedrooms. The company has set out to deliver excellence as standard and needed to ensu

Rinnai Director Chris Goggin looks at and discusses the potential next generation of energy technology ideas and appliances that could deliver economic and efficient power to residential and commercial properties in the near future. New and original approaches will replace traditional and well referenced methods of heating and hot water provision. History is saturated with case histories of a process and pattern of technological replacements. Join the free Rinnai newsletter f

MACO UK is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, marking four decades of supporting the UK window and door industry with high-performance hardware solutions, technical expertise, and long-standing partnerships. Founded in 1986, the first MACO UK office and warehouse was located in Dartford before relocating to the market-leading sales, distribution, and innovation centre in Sittingbourne in 2000, where it continues to operate today. Over the past 40 years, MACO UK has pla