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Freefoam Building Products has helped complete the build of a new garage for a crucial lifeboat service in Carmarthen, Wales. Freefoam donated 28 lengths of its Fortex double shiplap cladding in storm grey, with matching trims and fascia, via stockist LBS Builders Merchants. The Ferryside Lifeboat station is one of around 80 independent lifeboats operating in the UK with HM Coastguard to...
Iso Chemie’s thermal insulating and load bearing bracket support system and sealing tapes have been specified for a new development project at Leicester Cathedral. The move sees Winframer type 1 units, Bloco One foam sealant tapes and Vario SD window connection foils installed to support and insulate large Internorm HF410 triple glazed composite windows being fitted in the cathedral’s eye-catching...
Iso Chemie’s thermal insulating and load bearing bracket support system and sealing tapes have been specified for a development project at Leicester Cathedral. Winframer type 1 units, Bloco One foam sealant tapes and Vario SD window connection foils will be installed to support and insulate large Internorm HF410 triple glazed composite windows being fitted in the cathedral’s eye-catching new heritage...
High-performance Super Spacer T-Spacer SG from Edgetech has helped revitalise three historic features of the New York skyline. 660 Fifth Avenue, Two Bryant Park and the Summit at One Vanderbilt have all undergone extensive refurbishment work involving the Edgetech technology. Built in 1957 on the site of a mansion designed for multimillionaire William H. Vanderbilt, the first of this trio...
Dowsil and Geocel high performance construction sealant products were selected for the cladding of a new project in Dublin’s financial district. As part of the Exchange Building development, a comprehensive curtain wall and stone cladding package was designed, manufactured and installed by Alucraft. This package made use of a range of high-performance sealant products, such as Dowsil 791 Weatherproofing Sealant...
Freefoam Building Products recently visited and filmed Freefoam registered installer Glen Young in Reading, Berkshire, to see how he transforms homes using Freefoam PVC products. The visit took in three properties, all of which had PVC Fortex or X-Wood cladding installed. The first two properties had previously featured hanging tiles above the ground floor elevation. Both homeowners were undertaking refurbishment...
A full-scale 3-D Davros design has been created by lifelong Doctor Who fan, Toby Bateson, using decorative glass products from RegaLead. Davros, the infamous Dalek leader, has seen multiple incarnations across the last 50 years on screen but nothing quite as creative or as unique as Toby’s stained glass creation, which is regularly seen hovering around the streets of Blackpool....
The fourth and largest phase of the prominent Riverside Quarter residential development in Wandsworth, south west London, has benefited from a high performance Dowsil structural glazing silicone sealant. Selected for its performance under testing and exceptional adhesion, the product was supplied to regular customer Structural Glazing by The Sherwin Williams Company. David Hardie, director at Dane Architectural, said: “This contract...
New foam sealant tapes and a thermal insulating and load bearing bracket support system from ISO Chemie were specified for a world-first sustainable office retrofit at Cambridge University. The move sees Winframer units and ISO Bloco tape being installed at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Entopia Building in Regent Street, Cambridge, in an initiative to bring...
Tru Plastics transformed a home in Coalville, Leicestershire using Freefoam Fortex Double Shiplap cladding, in Sage Green. The couple had lived at the property for more than 10 years, and had both recently retired. They wanted to improve the look of the house and install insulation but also wanted a low maintenance solution. They researched various cladding options online and...
Penryn Plastics is the winner of Freefoam Building Plastics’ latest monthly transformation competition. Using Fortex Double Shiplap cladding in Colonial Blue, Penryn Plastics transformed a three-storey detached property in Falmouth, fitting cladding around the upper storey of the whole house. “Originally the house was covered with a grey pebble dash that, over the years, had become stained and dated,” Alex...
Improved levels of acoustic and energy insulation will be provided following the specification of ISO-Chemie’s sealing tape for windows at a new mixed used development in central London. More than 1,000m of ISO Bloco 600 tape and 300m of Bloco ONE tape was installed to support the conversion of unused office space to a high-class entertainment venue at 6 Grafton...
Dowsil sealants were supplied by the Sherwin Williams Company to one of Dow’s leading Quality Bond customers, Architectural Engineering (AEL), which helped to facilitate the delivery of a unitised glazing and cladding package for a commercial office project in one of Manchester’s key regeneration areas. 100 Embankment at Greengate, Salford, is the second phase of a joint development on the...
Edgetech’s Super Spacer has played a crucial role in the construction of one of the Middle East’s most spectacular new buildings. The celebrated product was used to deliver the 5,500m2 glass facade of the Qatar National Library. The 42,000m2 structure is home to over a million books, and 500,000 digital editions. The library’s most valuable volumes are kept in a...
A range of Dowsil sealants, including Dowsil’s Firestop 700, were specified for use on the atrium elevations and glazed partitioning within The Sorting Office, a new commercial property in Dublin’s Cardiff Lane. All the sealant products were specified and distributed by the Sherwin Williams Company. The Sorting Office is a seven storey, flexible use office building in the Irish capital’s...
112 Maxiglaze glazed-in aluminium ventilators were installed at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The purpose-built £21million facility provides people in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Cambuslang and Rutherglen with the best quality of palliative care. Designed by Ryder Architecture and built by main contractor Balfour Beatty, it is the first hospice in the UK to follow...
Window sealant products from Tremco Illbruck installation products are being used in the Hilton Garden Inn, located trackside at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit. The 197-room hotel includes a rooftop terrace, and direct access to The Silverstone Wing Conference Centre. Illbruck also offered fire safety advice. Specifiers had originally selected window sealant products that Illbruck knew wouldn’t meet stringent fire safety...
At 23 storeys, the four-towered Code student accommodation building is one of the Midland’s tallest, most ambitious buildings – and a striking addition to the Coventry skyline that was only possible with help from Illbruck’s sealant technology. It will house over a thousand spacious studio apartments, a gym, a cinema and more, and is located just two minutes from the...
A ‘revolutionary’ roof on a new £140 million distillery and visitor experience centre in Scotland has been sealed using foam tape from ISO-Chemie. The Macallan Distillery, built by Robertson Construction on the Easter Elchies estate in Speyside, has seen ISO-Bloco T-Max installed to accommodate differential movement of up to 80mm between dozens of the roof’s timber cassette sections. More than...
Integral blinds from HiTech Blinds have been supplied by Millennium Windows and Conservatories into a “transformative renovation” of a detached home. The 1970s-built property in St Peter’s, Jersey, underwent a wholesale renovation earlier this year, with Millennium Windows and Conservatories appointed to supply new windows and doors. Including the supply of three bifolding doors and feature windows, this included the...
