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Flooring at a newly refurbished shopping centre in Aberdeen is being kept in first-class condition after top of the range products from Schlüter-Systems, the number one supplier of essential tiling protection, were installed there. A major contributor to the local economy and employer in the city, Bon Accord & St Nicholas shopping centre, owned jointly by Land Securities and British Land, recently underwent a £8m upgrade which included its tiled floors. Specifying hundreds of movement…

A new smart electric thermal storage (SETS) system – which offers electric heating customers efficiency savings of up to 20% – could play a key role in Europe’s transition to a smarter, low-carbon energy system, by storing up renewable energy when demand is low and supply is high. This is the main conclusion of a new report published today by energy consultancy DNV KEMA and commissioned by leading energy company SSE and appliance manufacturer Dimplex….

Flooring specialist Tarkett sent less than one per cent of its waste to landfill in 2012 according to figures recently released by the company. In total the company recycled more than 500 tonnes of the waste produced at its UK manufacturing facility in Lenham, Kent. Tarkett has long been a pioneer of sustainable flooring, having introduced its first recycling initiatives back in 1957. David Jenner, production director at Tarkett, said: “We take recycling and sustainability…