Frame UK brought Manchester's Stretford area to a standstill in November when it built a two-bedroom, four-person house on the site of Old Trafford football ground in less than four hours.
Gilbert McCarthy, managing director of Kingspan Off-Site, looks at the benefits of using off-site timber frame systems to crack the code for sustainable homes.
Questions surrounding timber and fire protection never seem to be far apart. Answers are now at hand from www.fireretard.com – a non-profit organisation founded by a number of leading players in the European wood industry to spread best practice and technical know-how.
THANKS TO the determination and missionary zeal of the Wirral Christian Centre, a derelict and badly vandalised Birkenhead church dating back to 1886 has been saved from wrack and ruin with an extensive £1 million restoration project. Sadolin Classic wood protection has been used extensively throughout the project to bring the interiors back to their former glory.
Richard Burbridge has recently invested in Wonderware’s historian and new data acquisition hardware to streamlined effect. How does this software provide new manufacturing production information?