James Pastre, Quality Assurance Manager at IG Masonry Support, explores the popularity of brick facades and how offsite manufactured products can fulfil complex requirements.    With brick facades as popular today as they have ever been, building designers and specifiers need to be confident the products they specify will achieve the same exceptional finish each and every time. Taking the construction of complex brick features offsite into factory-controlled conditions, how d

Emily Landsborough, Head of ESG at Ibstock, discusses the steps housebuilders and building manufacturers are taking to safeguard the UK’s biodiversity and protecting a beloved British bird facing extinction.     Few sights or sounds are more emblematic of the British summer than the scream of swifts soaring across the sky. They are renowned for their brown plumage,  contrasting with the white colouration around their throats,  and their distinctive call. But the swift’s popul

John Iles, Design Team Manager at Leviat, explains how Leviat’s engineered solutions are helping to transform the former Oval Gasworks into a distinctive new neighbourhood in the heart of London.      Next to the iconic Oval cricket ground, this major regeneration project combines contemporary design with heritage sensitivity, delivering high-quality homes defined by high-quality brickwork and architectural detail. To help realise this vision, Leviat provided a range of engin

A recent case study from Alsecco has highlighted the significant difference between traditional brick and brick slip systems, with brick...

For more than 35 years Crest has been supplying high-quality building products nationally for the construction industry.      Working...

Durable, adaptable, locally and responsibly sourced, there is much to recommend clay brick as a modern sustainable building material. Rob...

Marmox’s Thermoblocks helped solve the cold-bridging challenge in a Passivhaus development in Wigan. The final phase of a PassivHaus...

The NYX Hotel is a new €40m, six storey, 175-bedroom accommodation overlooking the Grand Canal in Dublin.  Designed to be in harmony with...

An environmentally-friendly mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel has been developed by Newcastle University...

One of Haddonstone’s long-term clients has supplied a set of three cast stone mermaid panels, created by artist Charles Gurrey, for a...

More specifiers and developers are turning to MMC Category 2 timber frame to build high-quality, high-performance homes quickly. One of...

World-leading engineered connections specialist, Leviat, has made a significant impact on the architectural landscape with its innovative...

Leading provider of groundworks McCoy Contractors has been appointed to deliver the groundworks and hard landscaping for Phase 4 and 5 of...

The Brick Development Association (BDA) has announced the removal of the 1-star rating from its Brickmakers Quality Charter (BQC) scheme,...

Aggregate Industries has created a recent housebuilder white paper entitled ‘The Building Blocks to Future Homes’. This report focuses on...