Lighthouse Charity speaks with Roma Agrawal MBE, Structural Engineer, Author and Broadcaster Roma Agrawal has spent her career shaping the built world and cites her career highlight as the six years she spent working on the tallest building in Western Europe - the Shard , designing the foundations and the iconic spire. She was also part of the transformation of Crystal Palace station. She continues to influence the way we talk about engineering itself, so as part of the Light

Howells Patent Glazing has returned to Northallerton institution, Barkers, to replace three areas of roof glazing above the iconic arcade at the High Street department store and in the atrium of Barkers Home store. This follows the installation of replacement rooflights in all four atriums in the centre of the store in 2022.  The Arcade is located on Northallerton High Street and is home to a variety of retail and commercial premises, including a jewellers, shoe shop, florist

A successful 2% green hydrogen gas mixing trial has been successfully completed at the Briggs power station in North Lincolnshire. This is said to be the first occasion in which a green hydrogen and natural gas blend have been transported through infrastructure to power electrical generation in the UK. The trial was carried out by Centrica and British Gas to demonstrate the feasibility of hydrogen gas blends into existing UK infrastructure.   Across Europe several other separ

Shoreham Beach House is a private development in Sussex designed using Passivhaus principlies and the Schöck Isokorb T type S. Specify & Build reports. Shoreham Beach House is a private residential development at Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex. Jim Miller Design, a leading architectural practice based in Hove, has designed the project using Passivhaus principles. One of the challenges of the project involved the extensive number of connections between the internal and external ste

CARLISLE Construction Materials is celebrating success at the 2025 NFRC Scottish Roofing Awards, after project partner Site Group won the Green Roofing category for the Tynecastle Student Accommodation project in Edinburgh, which features CARLISLE’s high-performance RESITRIX waterproofing system. The winners were revealed at a ceremony held at The Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow, recognising outstanding achievements and innovation across Scotland’s roofing industry. The redeve

Limescale within commercial heating and hot water systems is a common problem associated with hardwater areas. About 60% of mains water supplied in the UK is classified as ‘hard’ and this produces limescale deposits that reduce the efficiency of heating and water-heating appliances and systems. This means increased operating costs, as just 1.6mm of scale can reduce system efficiency by 12%, in turn increasing the amount of energy needed to meet hot water demands. Limescale in

South London interior design studio Tailored Living Interiors has brought bespoke luxury to Oakley House and Pico House; two properties nestled in the repurposed Grade II-listed Battersea Power Station development. This development was introduced to Tailored Living Interiors through its exclusive collaboration with Kingdom International Real Estate. Oakley and Pico House offer a collection of one, two and three-bed apartments, with two luxury homes featuring bespoke interior

Kalzip has played a key role in one of Europe’s largest and most technically complex healthcare developments, the New Children’s Hospital (NCH) in Dublin. Situated on the St James’s Hospital campus, this €1.7 billion national facility consolidates three existing children’s hospitals, Crumlin, Temple Street, and Tallaght, into a single, state-of-the-art institution that sets a new benchmark for paediatric care in Ireland and beyond. One of the most striking architectural featu

Northwest contractor Winrow Building Services has recently completed the installation of a new high-performance system for heating and hot water production at a 111-bedroom hotel in Birmingham City Centre.  The hotel is part of one of the world’s biggest chains and the system has been augmented with SPF calculations and complete system integration for maximum operational efficiencies.   The new system consists of two 27kW R290 heat pumps, optimised with a bespoke 800-litre pr

When leading fire and security specialists Cornerstone were appointed to deliver the life safety systems for the refurbishment of 77 Grosvenor Street, they faced a unique challenge.

Kimpton, a Liverpool-based HVAC specialist contractor, has supplied and installed an emergency replacement Rinnai hot water heating system at the Spire Murrayfield hospital in Barnston, Wirral after the site’s gas-fired storage water heaters failed to operate. Replacing the system meant that the hospital could continue supplying care to the community without interruption. The hospital produced hot water via a single gas fired storage water heater but, when this unit failed, a

Essential repairs and renovation works were carried out on a parish church in Oxfordshire, as part of which St Mary’s Barton is receiving a new pitched roof covering and underlay. The roofing work has been carried out by contractors Speakman Roofing, working with main contractor Building Bespoke.    The church was built in 1958 by architect, NF Cachemaille-Day, who designed some of the UK’s most ‘revolutionary’ 20 th  century churches, including St Mary’s.     Andrew...

A sensitive restoration of St Gabriel’s Lodge, Chapel and Woodthorpe Hall has brought new life to historic buildings near Manchester University, combining heritage craftsmanship with modern performance and design.     The St Gabriel’s project involved the careful restoration of the historic Lodge, Chapel and Woodthorpe Hall, alongside the construction of two new complementary buildings to create 319 high-quality student bedrooms close to Manchester University. McClaren Constr

Buildings C1 and D1 of the new Greenwich Design District have been announced as winners of the  RIBA  London Awards 2025 – and Schöck, the leading international supplier of structural thermal breaks, has been instrumental in minimising any risk of themal bridging.   Greenwich Design District, at the heart of the Greenwich Peninsula, is made up of 16 buildings. Schöck has provided a variety of product solutions that minimise any risk of themal bridging on five of the 16 buildi

A new housing development in Sutton Coldfield has become the first site in the UK to incorporate Smartroof’s smartPUC system. Developed...