The current pandemic has generated a pressing need to radically adapt virtually all indoor space, from hospitals to hotels, from commercial offices to education facilities. Responding to this, Style, the UK’s market leading operable wall specialist, has launched a new ‘social distancing’ section of their website, highlighting exactly how modern moveable partitioning systems can be effectively utilised to create safer environments for everyone.

As businesses set about returning to the workplace, ensuring staff and customer safety and complying with Government guidelines will be a priority. How can screens help businesses quickly adapt their offices and their shop floors to offer protection and peace of mind for all without lengthy and costly reconfiguration issues? Simon Boocock, Managing Director of CRL Europe, takes a look.

Partitioning experts and developers of the established Tenon and System 8000 products, Ocula Systems, are now offering RIBA approved CPD training on ‘Specifying Performance Fully Glazed Partitioning Systems.’

Market-leading, moveable wall specialist Style, has scooped the top accolade in the FIS Contractors awards for the ninth time.

Style has helped transform the London offices of worldwide financial derivatives trading company, IG Group, by designing and installing numerous wall panels that slide and spin across an open space to create informal, collaborative meeting spaces for groups of anything from two to twenty people. Further increasing functionality, both sides of the panels act as magnetic writeable white-boards which can be swivelled round to share ideas with other groups, effectively bringing them into the discussion.

A new pilot branch of Santander on Tottenham Court Road cleverly utilises a fully automatic DORMA Varitrans glass moveable wall system from Style to create a safe and secure out-of-hours ATM lobby.

Making Walsall Arboretum fit for the 21st century, a new flagship Visitor Centre has recently been opened after a sensitive restoration of the original 1870’s building.

You don’t get much in life for free. However, if you know of a charity, or other good cause, that’s looking to make its room space more flexible, read on!

Partitioning experts, Style is the first company to make BIM objects for their folding wall systems, available on the award winning NBS National BIM Library.

Partitioning experts, Style is the first company to make BIM objects for their folding wall systems, available on the award winning NBS National BIM Library.

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