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Leading safety and building compliance authority, Bureau Veritas, has pledged its full support to the government’s recent introduction of a new 11m threshold for sprinklers – asserting it marks a vital step forward in the journey towards enhanced fire safety regulation.

Demanding regulation standards and the sheer scale of a residential housing project like East London’s New Garden Quarter, have seen aluminium building systems supplier Technal and installer Ravenworth work together to deliver this £4.2m scope of work for Telford Homes. This includes windows, patio and entrance doors as well as curtain walling.

The AliDeck Lite Board is the perfect non-combustible solution for leaseholders needing to replace timber or composite decking

Building owners received some good news this week, with the Government announcing the launch of a £1 billion Building Safety Fund to address the urgent removal of dangerous cladding and combustible materials from buildings 18 metres and taller.

A rare disaster in the form of pandemic has temporarily brought the world to its knees. As countries scrabble to fight an invisible enemy, the world has been put in lockdown. The subsequent collapse in activity that has resulted from this is unlike anything experienced in living memory; the word ‘unprecedented’ is bandied about in daily parlance. Housing Association Magazine’s Joe Bradbury discusses COVID-19

SureCav, a pioneering brand of cavity wall membrane, announces a significant increase in the sales of SureCav25 YoY since its launch in 2016, quickly catching up the sales of the original product line, SureCav50. It now accounts for 40% of the company’s sales.

With a solid track record in managing large scale projects for Telford Homes, aluminium building systems supplier Technal and installer Ravenworth have completed a two-million pound systems package to provide high performance windows, doors and curtain walling for its latest East London residential development, The Forge, which includes a clever public surveillance solution.

When approached to work on a large residential new-build housing project in Walthamstow, leading waterproofing and roofing expert, Langley Waterproofing Systems Ltd was on-hand to provide the ideal solution with Approved Contractor, T & T Roofing Limited.