Features

It’s no secret that the construction industry is currently facing an increasingly large skills shortage. The industry has long suffered from a lack of skilled workers, making it more difficult than ever to hit deadlines due to the shrinking talent pool.

Metal ceilings are a thing of functional and aesthetic beauty. Offering designers full flexibility – whilst still attaining the necessary fire, thermal, acoustic and light requirements – metal ceilings are quickly becoming the mainstay in modern buildings; from commercial offices to airport terminals, railway stations to shopping centres. John Spicer, Technical Manager at SAS International, explains more.

Here Nick Cowley, Managing Director at the PVCu windows and doors manufacturer, Euramax, explains the different ways in which modular building can be used.

A fire starting on an apartment balcony can lead to significant damage to the apartment itself and adjoining units. Balcony fires and their all-too-common outcomes can largely be avoided by educating residents in fire safety and by designing buildings with balconies that minimise the spread of fire.

Alumasc’s Ben Green, Divisional Marketing Manager (Alumasc WMS & Alumasc Roofing), explains how Sustainable Drainage Systems including green roofs can be part of the climate change solution.

KI has teamed up with Soluis at its London Headquarters to showcase the latest immersive technology for architecture and design visualisation.

Failure to install compliant highway ironwork could lead to costly rework and in the worst-case scenario, dangerous conditions on busy carriageways. Barry Turner, Technical Manager at Wrekin Products and Chairman of the BSi BSEN124 Standard committee, discusses the dangers of assuming highway ironwork meets HA104/09 and the best practice to guarantee that it does.

Matthew Bailey, Divisional Manager, Inspection and Certification, at HCL Safety, offers his top tips to consider before working at height, and explains why professional inspection and certification can contribute to safer working.

Working unsafely at height can lead to serious harm, both to an individual employee and on a reputational level to a company. It is therefore essential that projects are managed as safely as possible. Stephen Allen-Tidy, NASC Health and Safety Advisor, explores further.

Simon Gregory, Sales Director at Proteus Facades, explores how modern rainscreen cladding materials are helping architects to bring older buildings into the 21st century.