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Knightsbridge Furniture BIM Components Now Available Online A comprehensive series of Building Information Modelling (BIM) components has been developed by Knightsbridge Furniture covering the company’s collections of seating, tables and cabinets across the hospital, care and mental health sectors. The components can be downloaded free of charge from www.modlar.com/profile/knightsbridge.furniture Set to become mandatory for all public sector projects by 2016, BIM is the process of designing a building by computer, using downloadable ‘smart’ components –…

OCS Environmental Services has won a 12-month, multi-million pound contract to remove asbestos from Didcot A Power Station. The project will involve a team of more than 80 workers. Didcot A, a coal-fired station which powered the nation for 42 years, was switched off in March 2013, bringing an end to its electricity production for the National Grid. In 2008 the station was opted-out of the Large Combustion Plant Directive, an EU directive, which meant…

Armstrong Ceilings has launched a systems warranty that exceeds anything else out there in the market. The first 30-year warranty in the ceiling systems sector has been launched by Armstrong to meet specifiers’ and contractors’ increasing focus on risk management. Unique to Armstrong, the 30-year ceiling system warranty is designed to give 30 years of total confidence in the system specifiers have chosen. Armstrong Ceilings currently offers standard product warranties of 15 years on a…