All Products articles – Page 45

  • CSA cement
    News

    CSA cement uses less energy and produces less CO²

    2008-07-11T11:54:00Z

    BRE research claims Manufacturing calcium sulfoaluminate cement performs better than Portland cement

  • News

    Hanson closes two brickworks

    2008-07-11T01:00:00Z

    Credit crunch hits largest brickmaker as it axes 149 jobs

  • Radiant Control has introduced the Kanmor 084e discreet heating sensor
    News

    Heating sensors

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Radiant Control has introduced the Kanmor 084e discreet heating sensor, which it says is the first that can be hidden from view in plaster or plasterboard.

  • Opus Technologies has launched the WCU600
    News

    Multiroom entertainment

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Multiroom entertainment systems specialist Opus Technologies has launched the WCU600, a fully customisable touchscreen keypad that can be used to control its Opus 500 whole-house music and video system, as well as other smart home products.

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    Heating controllers

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Dimplex has developed a rotary radio frequency controller and receiver for controlling electric heating appliances in the home, thereby minimising energy waste.

  • MK Electric has enhanced its Aspect DSC lighting control system with the launch of a two-channel version.
    News

    Lighting control

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    MK Electric has enhanced its Aspect DSC lighting control system with the launch of a two-channel version.

  • Home energy controller
    News

    Smart meters: technology for housebuilders to monitor energy consumption

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have been sluggish in picking up on new technology that allows suppliers and consumers to monitor energy consumption in the home. But studies show they have clear benefits

  • News

    CCTV cameras

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Dallmeier has launched the DesignCams range of CCTV cameras, which are available with more than 50 finishes, ranging from stone and wood-effect, to animal print and carbon fibre.

  • News

    Cable management

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Mita Cable Management Specialists has introduced two new ranges of cable management systems to complement its existing product range.

  • Technik Floor
    News

    Green flooring: Technik Floor

    2008-07-04T16:28:00Z

    Panelised stone flooring system behaves as a single-surface layer and replaces cementious screeding

  • Bovigo school’s early learning centre, with its secoya cladding and lime render, was no more expensive to build than a conventional structure, but has much higher specifications
    Features

    Modular straw panels

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Architect Martin Penk explains why the straw bale modular system was the right solution for Bosvigo school’s early years facility

  • Features

    Off-site low carbon technologies

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Kingspan Off-Site has launched a collection of low-carbon technologies originally specified on the Kingspan Lighthouse, the first house to reach level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

  • The panels being fixed in position
    Features

    Off-site manufacture: Beam me up, Scotty

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Erecting a straw-bale school building in three days may sound like a frontier too far, but an innovative off-site manufacturing system using timber panels brought dramatic savings in time. Alex Smith reports

  • Eurban’s solid timber panels are made in Germany from wood waste
    Features

    The alternatives: Modular systems

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Three more options for fast-track sustainable modular construction

  • Wayne Hemingway, officially opened the Center
    News

    Wolseley opens building to showcase sustainable products

    2008-06-19T15:58:00Z

    Distributor of construction materials' £3.2m eco-centre in Leamington Spa first of its kind in the UK

  • Dimplex heat pumps provide low carbon heating and hot water for homes in the Flagship Housing Group development
    News

    Norfolk housing association installs trial ground source heat pumps

    2008-06-18T14:58:00Z

    Dimplex heat pumps provide low carbon heating and hot water in timber Flagship Housing Group homes

  • Hazelton Homes has installed Baxi solar panels at its development of apartments in Anstey, Leicestershire.
    News

    Solar panels

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Hazelton Homes has installed Baxi solar panels at its development of apartments in Anstey, Leicestershire. The in-roof flat-plate solar collectors will provide hot water for all the top-floor apartments at the site.

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    Grey water recycling

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Polypipe Sanitary Systems has launched a micro grey water recycling system aimed at designers looking to meet level three and beyond of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

  • Barratt’s three-storey Green House
    News

    Concrete panel walls

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    H+H provides the shell of the first house to be built by a volume housebuilder to level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes

  • News

    Solar hot water

    2008-06-11T00:39:00Z

    Velux launches a solar hot water system that provides up to 70% of homes’ hot water requirements